Staff Engineer, Product Engineering

pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor’s 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission—to enhance Murata’s world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi’s product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi’s team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Job Summary 

This position is responsible for all aspects of pSemi products from kick-off until end of life. In order to make sure a high quality product is released to production, the successful candidate will establish proper test and characterization coverage for new products in order guarantee product performance while ensuring cost and quality targets are met. This position will interface with Design, Characterization, Test, Manufacturing, Reliability, Applications, Foundry and Marketing groups to identify opportunities, drive projects to completion, and verify effectiveness. 

 

The assigned tasks will be diverse and complex in nature which requires exceptional organization skills and high attention to detail. This position will need to exercise sound judgment in methods used to solve problems and in the evaluation of the results. This position will use data analysis to drive most decisions. Product Engineering is responsible for moving products from a proven design into production. This position will be expected to coordinate activities with other engineers working on the project. This position must enjoy working in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a sense of commitment and be flexible to project needs. The position must be a team player and possess a sense of urgency to meet product requirements on schedule. 

 

Roles & Responsibilities 

This position has responsibility for: 

• New Product introduction: Ensure new products meet product development requirements prior to production release. Support production / Characterization / Reliability plans, support design engineering with extensive data analysis/reporting and launching new products into high volume production by evaluating reliability, properties and techniques used in production. Support experiments to study product performance and capabilities, analyze test and characterization data to identify performance issues or show product meets marketing requirements. Establish standardized test and measurement methods for new product lines. 

• Product Sustaining: Monitor initial product yields and quality and apply data analysis skills to drive improvements during production. Review and disposition production lots as necessary. Drive various test time reduction efforts.  

• Change Control: Review any changes in production processes and how the change may impact product performance or reliability. Perform any necessary electrical characterization to support change qualification. 

• Failure Analysis: Drive failure analysis studies on customer returns or to study failure modes that impact yield.  

• Team Leadership: provide technical mentoring to junior product engineers; lead activities and efforts on cross functional teams. Provide technical leadership to transition new products to mass production. This will involve providing oversite to make sure various tasks maintain schedules and ensuring technical data meets the objectives of the project prior to release to mass production. 

 

Competency Requirements 

In order to perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:  

• Critical Thinking: Skilled at finding logical flaws in arguments and plans; identifies problems and solutions that others might miss; provides detailed insight and constructive criticism into problems and complex situations 

• Working with Ambiguity: Achieves forward progress in the face of poorly defined situations and/or unclear goals; able to work effectively with limited or partial information 

• Displaying Technical Knowledge: Keeps his/her technical skills current; effectively applies specialized knowledge and skills to perform work tasks; understands and masters the technical skills, knowledge, and tasks associated with his/her job; shares technical expertise with others. 

• Making Accurate Judgments and Decisions: Bases decisions on a systematic review of relevant facts and information; avoids making a