Head of Product Development Engineering
$220,000–$280,000 year
HybridSan Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead end-to-end product test and hardware ownership from pre-silicon to post-silicon, bridging high-speed Ethernet switch and PHY designs with automotive-grade silicon manufacturing. Execute NPI bring-up ensuring signal integrity and power/performance standards, driving manufacturing flow from wafer starts to sample delivery. Own test strategy across wafer, final, and system levels, while managing characterization, ATE correlation, and yield improvement to reduce test cost while meeting IATF 16949 and ISO 26262 requirements. This role supports Ethernovia's development of packet processor-centric networking solutions for software-defined autonomy across vehicles and robots.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
- 12+ years of experience in fabless semiconductor operations, specifically for complex, high-performance SOCs or networking ICs
- Must have direct experience with ATE and SLT testing, characterization, ATE to system correlation, productization and silicon/package qualification
- Must have direct experience working with foundries, assembly houses, test houses, and OSATs in the development of high-volume products from NPI through HVM
- Expertise with iJTAG, Scan, MBIST, Sensor, SerDes, LSIO/HSIO testing on ATE, bare-metal, functional DVFS and benchmark testing at SLT and security fusing
- Experience productizing high-speed communications chips using ATE and System characterization and correlation data, balancing PPY (power/perf/yield)
- Experience navigating the Automotive electronics ecosystem, including IATF 16949, ISO 26262, Safe launch and PPAP (Production Part Approval Process)
- Experience working in fast paced start-up environment building cutting edge products
- Understanding of high-bandwidth data-path products (Ethernet, Switching, or high-speed SerDes)
- Expert level experience with yield management systems, data analysis, scripting tools, and statistical data analysis using JMP
- Understanding of product life cycle from concept to end of life and leading pre-silicon review and readiness to enable seamless post-silicon bring-up
- The position is based in San Jose, CA
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with their latest FinFET process node, and QFN, LGA/BGA assembly process for automotive products
- Experience delivering high speed SerDes products to Tier-1 automotive OEMs
- Experience managing contractors and leadership experience
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