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 supporting product engineering activities from product kick-off through production ramp and sustaining. To ensure sure a high-quality product is released to production, the successful person will execute proper test and characterization coverage for new products in order guarantee product performance while contributing to cost and quality objectives through test and data analysis. This position will collaborate with Design, Characterization, Test, Manufacturing, Reliability, Applications, Foundry and Marketing groups to support project execution and data-driven decision making.

The assigned projects will be moderate in scope and will require this position to exercise judgment within the defined procedures and practices to complete the projects. The Engineer, Product Engineering position will follow instructions and apply company policies and procedures to drive 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 person filling this role will be comfortable 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: Support verification that 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.
• Product Sustaining: Monitor initial product yields and quality and apply data analysis skills to support improvements during production. Support review and disposition production lots as necessary. Help with 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: Using guidance and inputs from other group members, work on failure analysis studies on customer returns or to study failure modes that impact yield.
• Team Collaboration: With guidance from the manager or senior engineers, coordinate assigned tasks across cross-functional teams to support new product transition to production. Contribute technical input, track assigned action items, and ensure required data and documentation are completed on schedule.

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• 2+ years of experience in Product Engineering or Design Engineering
• Strong technical writing and communication skills
• Team player with a strong sense of urgency to meet product requirements on schedule
• Working knowledge with software such as Datapower, JMP, Cadence, Matlab
• Background working with large datasets and applying statistical methods to draw conclusions
• Experience with any of the following products: PA, LNA, Switch, Digital Attenuators, Phase Shifters, DC-DC converters, PMIC
• Hands on experience of RF measurement equipment to validate performance

Education Requirements

• BSEE required

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

pSemi Corporation supports a diverse workforce and is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees. pSemi does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under Vehicle Code section 12801.9), ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally-protected medical condition, military or veteran status (including “protected veterans” under applicable affirmative action laws), marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws applicable to the Company. pSemi also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an employee or applicant has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

Note: The Peregrine Semiconductor name, Peregrine Semiconductor logo and UltraCMOS are registered trademarks and the pSemi name, pSemi logo, HaRP and DuNE are trademarks of pSemi Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. pSemi products are protected under one or more of the following U.S. Patents: http://patents.psemi.com