Silicon Product Operations Leader

Silicon Product Operations Leader

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing, operations, and supply chain management.
• Proven experience leading foundry and OSAT operations, including yield optimization, quality management, and cost control.
• Expertise in high-volume silicon production, including advanced technology nodes with leading foundries (Samsung, TSMC, Intel, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of packaging, test engineering, and backend product engineering.
• Experience managing supplier quality engineering, contract manufacturing, and failure analysis labs.
• Deep understanding of NPI to HVM transitions, product lifecycle management, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent leadership and team-building skills, with a track record of growing and mentoring high-performing teams.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive knowledge of product IP, chiplets, and SoCs, with a focus on understanding mission-mode usage as well as customer needs.
• Oversee manufacturing at foundry and OSAT, ensuring alignment with cost, quality, and yield targets.
• Lead NPI to HVM ramp for multiple custom silicon generations, including advanced technology nodes (5nm, 4nm, 3nm, and beyond).
• Establish and implement manufacturing process control strategies to optimize yield, improve reliability, and enhance efficiency.
• Develop and maintain quality and reliability management systems, ensuring robust validation and compliance across all manufacturing stages.
• Drive packaging and test strategies, overseeing product engineering efforts to improve cost efficiency and time to market.
• Build and scale engineering operations teams, providing leadership in backend product engineering, failure analysis, and validation.
• Collaborate with design, supply chain, and product teams to ensure seamless execution of manufacturing programs.
• Work with supply chain to analyze and improve cost structures, optimizing supply chain efficiencies while maintaining quality and performance.
• Develop long-term manufacturing strategies, ensuring scalability, innovation, and alignment with business objectives.
• Build out a Quality and Reliability team: To conduct thorough investigations and analysis to identify root causes of systematic and random issues affecting quality and reliability, effectively addressing customer observations.
• Build out Data Analysis: Analyze characterization and end-to-end manufacturing data from Wafer Acceptance Testing (WAT), sort, package, and system-level tests to uncover failure mechanisms, identify preventive actions, and address weaknesses in test strategies.
• Test Condition Optimization: Ensure that optimal product test conditions are implemented to achieve maximum yield, quality, and performance while identifying test coverage gaps and initiating data-driven improvement plans.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Maintain effective communication and collaborative relationships with product stakeholders, including Supply Chain team, Product Engineering and Test teams, Quality and Reliability teams, and IP/Chiplet/SoC design and platform debug leads.
• Responsible for initial Silicon Bring-Up and debugging processes, providing critical feedback and recommendations for changes necessary to facilitate volume production.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.