Location: Burlington, CanadaJob Summary:The Staff Product Engineer, Lifecycle Engineering supports margin improvement and sustaining activities for Semtech products, from production release to end of life, across a diverse range of markets, processes, technologies, and requirements.In this role, you will contribute to technical investigations that impact product margins and profitability. You will assist in triaging and resolving production issues across test, foundry, and assembly domains for multiple product lines. Your involvement spans all stages of a product's lifecycle, including process changes, improvements, and ongoing maintenance. You will support the team in achieving annual business plan goals by collaborating with Quality, Operations, Marketing, NPI Product Engineering, and Test Engineering teams to ensure seamless production. You will help resolve critical production issues promptly, partner with test engineers on test and yield optimizations, support implementation of test screens for customer returns, and contribute to cross-functional team efforts.Responsibilities:1. Production Support & Quality Management (50%)First point of contact for RMA/FA/customer requests handling, and SAP updates for yield/test timesManage production products disposition/NCMRsCoordinate and complete all Product Engineering deliverables during qualifications, production transfers, and capacity ramp-upsCoordinate manufacturing documentation for production transfer and product maintenanceMaintain product data and COGs in the existing management systems2. Yield & Test Optimization (25%)Understand and implement yield and quality process improvementsPerform capability analysis, margin analysis, correlation studies and yield modeling on new productsReview and optimize coverage, test limits and guard bandingIdentify top yield loss Pareto opportunities and enact process solutionsUnderstand and optimize factors that affect product yield and quality2. Problem Resolution & Failure Analysis (15%)Drive the resolution of failure analysis, root cause and corrective actions for field returnsDevelop product specific failure analysis flow if appropriateFollow structured problem-solving methodologies to identify and eliminate sources of test falloutWork with Production Process/Packaging Engineering in the resolution of problems during wafer fabrication, packaging, die sort and final package test4. Continuous Improvement & Collaboration (10%)Project management of the above product engineering responsibilitiesCollaborate with other engineers or teams to qualify and validate improvementsApply a "lessons learned" approach to ensure implementation of yield improvementsMinimum Qualifications:Electrical Engineer with 3-5 years of product engineering experience in the semi-conductor industryStrong knowledge of high speed serial digital interconnect components and test methodologiesExperience in high speed digital ATE test platforms or equivalent rack solutionsExperience with quality systems including corrective actions, 8D reports, non-conformance reports, and failure analysis reportsExperience with JEDEC, and/or Mil quality requirementsExperience with yield management toolsExperience with project management is an assetDemonstrated track record for:Introducing effective methods for product yield and quality improvement and production cost reductionGood decision making, problem solving abilities based on analytical/statistical approachesCreation and maintenance of product manufacturing documentationSummarizing technical plans and results through reports and presentationsAchieving results in a multi project, cross-functional team environmentExercising strong leadership and communication skills in influencing peers and managementWorking with external sourcing and external subcontractorsThe intent of this job description is to describe the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be required to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically included in this description.All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $75,000 - $100,000. There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package.
