Sr. Manager, GaN Product Engineering

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Own day-to-day execution of assigned GaN product engineering and new product development programs from concept through formal product release using the APQP framework and disciplined milestone execution.
• Develop and maintain detailed program plans including scope, milestones, deliverables, ownership, dependencies, qualification gates, datasheet inputs, test readiness, and release criteria.
• Track execution versus plan and proactively identify schedule, yield, qualification, test, reliability, manufacturing, and product readiness risks; drive risk mitigation with cross-functional owners.
• Lead product engineering activities supporting NPI from development through production release, including electrical characterization, parametric analysis, yield monitoring, reliability evaluation, test limit development, and process window definition.
• Perform and guide characterization of GaN power devices including breakdown voltage, leakage, dynamic RDS(on), switching performance, gate drive behavior, switching loss, and application-relevant performance metrics.
• Support evaluation, qualification, and production release of GaN technologies including 650 V GaN, 100 V GaN, and related wide bandgap power device platforms.
• Drive definition of CP, FT, QC, characterization with technology and test engineering,
• Execute qualification plans and review reliability data to ensure product robustness, datasheet alignment, customer readiness, and release readiness.
• Drive creation and review of preliminary datasheets, final datasheet inputs, characterization reports, reliability summaries, and supporting product release documentation.
• Translate device, test, reliability, and manufacturing behavior into actionable guidance for applications, systems, customers, and internal stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to product engineering and NPI engineers and support transition of released products to sustaining teams.
• Own sustaining engineering activities for released products, including yield monitoring, test and manufacturing issues, reliability concerns, customer returns, corrective actions, and product change management.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Semiconductor Physics, Power Electronics, or related field; BS with significant relevant power semiconductor experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of semiconductor industry experience including product engineering, NPI, qualification, production ramp, or sustaining of power semiconductor devices.
• Hands-on experience with GaN power devices, GaN HEMTs, or related wide bandgap semiconductor technologies.
• Strong understanding of power semiconductor device physics, switching behavior, reliability mechanisms, and manufacturing sensitivities.
• Hands-on laboratory experience with electrical characterization of power devices, including high-voltage parametric testing, dynamic RDS(on), double-pulse testing, and switching loss measurement.
• Experience supporting product qualification, reliability data review, datasheet validation, test limit development, and formal product release readiness.
• Working knowledge of APQP, semiconductor NPI processes, wafer probe, final test, quality control, failure analysis, yield management, and risk-based decision making.
• Strong technical execution, program management, data-driven problem-solving, cross-functional communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience productizing high-voltage GaN HEMTs
• Experience interfacing with wafer fabrication, OSAT, backend manufacturing, test, reliability, applications, and customer-facing technical teams.
• Familiarity with application-level validation, gate-drive optimization, switching characterization platforms, and power converter operating conditions.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring product engineering, NPI, characterization, qualification, or sustaining engineering teams.