Staff Product Engineer (GaN Power Devices)

Location: Santa rosa, ph

Job Description

Job Summary

Renesas is seeking a highly skilled Senior/Staff Product Engineer to own product performance and quality in high-volume manufacturing for GaN power devices.  This role is responsible for ensuring robust, scalable production through strong ownership of yield, test limits, excursions, and factory execution, while partnering closely with test engineering, manufacturing, quality, and suppliers.

This is a great opportunity to work with cutting-edge wide bandgap technologies, contribute to global product lines, and collaborate with world-class engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Product ramp and high-volume production
• Own manufacturing product health from NPI ramp through sustained high volume production.
• Support product transfers, ramps, and capacity changes, ensuring stable performance across tools, sites, and suppliers.
• Maintain product BOM accuracy, documentation, and manufacturing readiness.

Yield and sustaining

• Drive yield ownership, including yield analysis, root cause identification, and corrective actions across wafer sort and final test.
• Define, release, and maintain production test limits, SPC limits, and disposition rules to protect quality while minimizing scrap.
• Lead excursion management, including containment, failure analysis, cross functional alignment, and customer facing corrective actions.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Act as the primary product engineering interface to manufacturing, including fabs, assembly, test, and OSATs.
• Partner with design, product, reliability, test, and operations teams to ensure seamless project execution.
• Organize technical data and present findings to engineering and management teams.
• Organize technical data and present findings to engineering and management teams.

Qualifications

Experience

• 7–12+ years in semiconductor product and yield engineering (experience level varies by degree: BS, MS).  Power semiconductor experience preferred.  Familiarity with discrete high voltage and/or low voltage GaN would be a plus.

Technical Skills

• Familiar with continuous improvement, yield improvement methodologies, statistics, common efficient data analysis techniques
• Experience in yield management tools such as JMP. Apply statistical analysis to isolate the issue and make data-driven decisions
• Familiarity with semiconductor fab, assembly, and packaging flows.

 Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills with ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Ability to organize, analyze, and present technical information clearly.

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.