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Location

Swindon | United Kingdom

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Job description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

Job Purpose:

Helping to define and maintain Renesas process technology roadmap working with Senior management and business unit leaders.

Act as a device/process expert in the company for developing technology strategies based on market intelligence and innovative process enhancement recommendations.

Evaluate and benchmark foundry process technologies suitable for Renesas product roadmap. Continuously monitor the competitiveness and cost efficiency of the process technology selections and look for options to optimize technologies for Advanced Mixed Signal and other products.

Deliver appropriate technical support to product design and layout Engineers in order to ensure successful and reliable manufacturing of Renesas products.

Manage the successful development and qualification of process technologies used in Renesas products

Principal Accountabilities:

 

• To maintain a sound knowledge and understanding of IC technologies in the marketplace (especially High Voltage, Analog, Mixed Signal BCD processes) and transferring that knowledge to others (technical expert).
• Day to day interactions with Foundries, manage foundry technology deliverables to enable product design, manage meetings and technical discussions on process technology topics with Foundry partners to meet Dialog’s product and roadmap requirements.
• Review and evaluate Foundry process technologies and SPICE models for accuracy, design ability and production readiness.
• Evaluate and benchmark new process technologies and introduce them to support internal product roadmap, when necessary. Initiate, evaluate and execute strategic process technology activities with foundry partners.
• Develop Process Documentation for CAD to develop Process Design Kits and interface with external CAD teams as appropriate.
• Support and guide product design teams on process technology options, power device layout/usage best practices as well as general design support activities.
• Work with product design and layout engineers on DRC reviews, layout checks and other process verifications for successful tape out of products.
• Define, develop, layout test structures and design of experiments to evaluate and verify devices, processes, models and reliability.
• Work closely with quality and product engineers to address and resolve process related yield, quality and manufacturing issues.
• Acting as a coach and mentor within the technical environment, seen as a technical role model.
• Define, develop or advise on procedures for the review and approval of product development milestones.
• Support customer engagements.
• Maintain and Develop/Improvise methodologies to ensure safe launch of products.

Key Performance Measures:

 

• Seen as the leader in their field, known and respected outside their direct functional lines
• Ability to come up with forward looking process technology strategies and schemes to support Renesas’s product roadmap
• Ability to effectively manage foundry implementation of defined strategies.
• Ability to address and solve technical problems quickly and effectively.
• Remedial actions identified and rectified in a timely and effective manner
• Perceived as a mentor and coach among peer group and more junior engineers.

Qualifications

Essential

• 10+ yrs. experience in Semiconductor industry as a process/device engineer and/or a foundry interface engineer. Experience in dealing with foundries on various process technologies is a must.
• Expertise in semiconductor devices including process development, device characterization, simulation and wafer level reliability.
• Expertise and experience in basic device physics, wafer level reliability, device-circuit interaction, High voltage power MOSFETs, BJT and other passive devices.
• Experience and deep understanding of BCD process technology and LDMOS device physics is a must for this position.
• Experience in supporting Analog mixed signal design and product teams on process technology, reliability, spice modelling, layout/DRC related topics.
• Able to handle projects and strategic activities independently and execute them successfully.
• Good written and verbal communication skills along with well-developed interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Ability to coach and mentor junior engineers.

Desirable

• Understanding of common Analog/Mixed Signal power management circuit blocks (current mirrors, LDOs, bucks, boosts etc.).

Additional Information

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at . 

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

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 .

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