Senior Manager QA Product Reliability

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Vishay manufactures one of the world's largest portfolios of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components that are essential to innovative designs in the automotive, industrial, computing, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. We help the world's most in-demand technologies come to life. Every day our products touch your life and the lives of people across the world, though you likely do not know it.

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Vishay is currently seeking applicants for Senior manager of Quality Reliability.

• Oversee the Newport Reliability function to implement quality systems, guidelines, plans and policies to effectively ensure the highest quality and reliability of the company’s products.
• Support key customer issues to achieve quality standards, systems and objectives utilizing appropriate procedures and cost savings methods.
• Participate in the reviewing of engineering designs with R&D and Engineering group to contribute quality and reliability requirements and considerations. This includes working with R&D design team to assess reliability and burn-in for new technology platforms and new products
• Direct the assistance of product support areas in gathering and analyzing data.
• Select and manage appropriate subordinate reliability at Newport team to ensure smooth coverage of quality and reliability functions.
• Represent MOSFET division in industry community such as JEDEC and AECQ
• Continue building internal Reliability best-in-class standard and practice with respect to new materials or new technologies
• Design and drive the enablement of world-class Quality and Reliability requirements for wide-bandgap (SiC) power product release to the market, that meet both industry standards (JEDEC and AEC) and customer requirements
• Establish the industry best-in-class methodology to test and to characterize SiC power semiconductor devices to understand their reliability during R&D, Transfer (New Product Introduction or NPI) and High-Volume-Manufacturing (HVM).
• Design experiments and co-ordinate statistical studies to determine device reliability, for example gate oxide lifetime marathon test, time-dependent dielectric breakdown.
• Lead and collaborate with R&D, Engineering and Operation in establishing screening and burn-in procedures for SiC power devices to meet product quality requirements, to comply to industry requirement (JEDEC and AEC) and to meet specifics customer requirements (e.g. Board Level Reliability) during R&D, NPI and HVM.
• Lead and contribute to R&D, NPI and HVM quality/reliability projects, presenting results to senior management / external stakeholders (including non-technical staff).
• Design the requirements for quality and reliability test equipment, coordinate their development and enable transfer to manufacturing when needed
• Collaborate closely with both internal and external stakeholders, including R&D, Engineering, Marketing, and academic collaborators.

• A PhD or Masters-level degree in electronics engineering, physics or any other microelectronics-related field.
• 10+ years of experience in quality and reliability with significant experience at top organizational level of semiconductor industry. Familiarity with reliability and failure modes SiC.
• 5+ years of experience in the field of wide-bandgap power semiconductor technology (ideally SiC).
• Experience leading global team in reliability testing of SiC MOSFETs and diodes, both at wafer- and package-level; preferred to have GaN experiences as well.
• A good understanding of statistical analysis and design of experiments.
• Knowledge of semiconductor TCAD tools for device simulation, i.e. Synopsys Sentaurus, Silvaco Victory;
• Excellent leadership and problem-solving skills – able to identify problems and/or opportunities for improvement and assesses viable solutions. Develop and execute comprehensive action plans.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple assignments concurrently, including ability…