Director Of Test Engineering

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.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Take leadership on Test Technology for Renesas power and mixed signal product groups. Closely collaborate with product groups, and test operations teams to ensure that Renesas strategic requirements for profitability, growth and operations portfolio will be met.

• Interface into product lines within A&C and PWR groups to identify emerging technologies and commercial targets for tester, handler, prober roadmaps.
• Define and execute test technology roadmap in support of corporate level roadmap that optimizes capability, commercial and operational aspects of production test thru liaison with technical leadership within product groups, operations, procurement, suppliers, vendors.
• Ensure infrastructure for test technology roadmap is enforced and in place at all production test sites working closely with test internal operations team.
• Lead industry bench-mark studies to ensure Renesas test roadmap is best in class for commercial, supply and technical metrics
• Collaborate with Renesas community to identify innovative and efficient production test techniques for power analog and mixed-signal ICs with sharing on approaches thru load board design, DFT, SW QA, WT/FT participation, SLT, strip-test, KGD, discretes, production BI, test flow optimization, test quality.
• Establish and maintain test cell database for power products on OED sharepoint (vendor relations, BD support, specifications on tester roadmap selection, ROI for investment, internal/OSAT optimization, technology roadmap executive reports.
• DRI for Test Technology in the test HW and SW councils.
• Travel required to meet with production lines (primarily US/EU/UK/JPN), ATE vendors (primarily SJ) and OSATs (Primarily APAC).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, function-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10 years’ experience working in semiconductor Operations or Engineering.
• Proven track record in ATE test development for mixed signal IC.
• Thorough understanding of mixed-signal design blocks, topologies, and associated test concepts.
• Ability to take decisions and to prioritize work demonstrating strong leadership.
• Ability to work under pressure and with multi-site, multi-national teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills.

Additional, Desired Qualifications

• Proven track record of technical lead functions in semiconductor test with technical depth.
• Language proficiency (written or verbal): English

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.com.
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 celebrating 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 federal, state or local law.