Senior Product Engineer, Product Engineering

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

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The Role:
As Senior Semiconductor Product Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design, and manufacture innovative semiconductor solutions for Kuiper’s satellite and ground terminal products. You will work closely with internal inter-disciplinary teams and third-party suppliers to drive key aspects of semiconductor product manufacturing, test, qualification, and reliability to meet our customers’ needs. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

In this role you will:
 Analyze foundry WAT data from development, corner lots and qual lots.
 Drive test program reviews with design, test and system teams.
 Collaborate with TE and outsource partner in test program bring-up and evaluation.
 Define char plans and corner lots, and then oversee execution of char data collection and analysis at outsource partner.
 Interface between outsource partner and design / test teams to identify bugs, and support fixes during product bring-up.
 Drive test-time reduction by RF-DC and FT-WS correlation and reject-oriented analysis.
 Define qual plans based on evaluation of mission profile and execute to defined qual plans.
 Define test plans and limits for production lots, corners lots, and pre-/post-qualification lots based on system specs, and yield & Cpk targets.
 Identify root cause and drive fixes for any failures reported during qual.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.



Key job responsibilities
Review system spec and align with system, design and test teams on test coverage. Validate and confirm gauge capability across hardware for test solutions developed to system spec. Drive characterization and product bring-up. Correlate ATE data to bench results, defining correlation criteria and de-bugging cases of poor fit across platforms. Understand process and package technologies, and interlink to product dependencies, defining process corners, package evaluations and verifying production readiness across entire supply chain. Finalize production ATE specs for test program and complete buy-off from system, design and operations teams. Complete qualification and release to production meeting target yield and Cpk numbers.


A day in the life
Collaborate with DVT, design and test teams on working through product and test issues. Work with packaging team, OSAT and foundry to address any open engineering items. Track product bring-up and introduction to schedules with TPM teams. Run data analyses on product GRR, char and bench-ATE. Design and run corner lots in fab and through assy & test.

About the team
A highly experience team of product engineers with breadth across RF & digital products, data analysis, automation and software solution development, and in-depth understanding of process, packaging and SOC solutions. Bachelor's degree in electrical/communications engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
 10+ years in semiconductor product engineering or foundry process operations, preferably in high-volume wireless SoC devices manufacturing.
 Up to 20% domestic or international travel required.
 Masters or PhD degree in Electrical / Communications Engineering or related field.
 Excellent oral and written communications skills.
Strong technical background in one or more of the following:
 RF product development and characterization experience.
 Knowledge of digital and Serdes testing.
 Experience interfacing with suppliers and external partners.
 Proficiency in statistics, data analysis and YMS products such as Exensio and JMP – scripting skills preferred.
 New product introduction, with transition from design phase, through qualification and into high volume manufacturing environment.
 Conversant with failure analysis techniques such as FIB, SEM, IR, EMMI, and CSAM.
 Knowledgeable with package technologies such as FCBGA, FCCSP, WLCSP, and QFN.



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