Director Of Product Engineering

• Recruit, develop, and manage a team of product engineers with expertise in semiconductor and PCBA manufacturing

• Drive yield, quality and cost optimisation across the product lifecycle, including chip manufacturing, test, PCBA and system level manufacturing

• Work closely with test engineering to define requirements for coverage, reporting and datalog formats from both ATE and system level electrical test

• Own analytics for SMT manufacturing processes, including SPI/AOI/AXI/ICT etc

• Own analytics for board and system level testing, including boundary scan and functional testing at board/blade/rack level

• Work with technology and manufacturing specialists to manage low yield events in production and drive overall yield improvement

• Support RMA analysis and reliability/qualification activities

• Establish best practices for data collection, cleaning, correlation, and visualization

• Collaborate with the Data Engineering and Analytics team to develop loading scripts for new data sources and optimise database schemas

• Define and develop standard analyses such as dashboards and enable fast self-service access to data for end users

• Regular travel to OSATs and manufacturing partners will be required

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• Extensive experience (10+ years) in semiconductor product engineering, test engineering, or manufacturing engineering

• Proven people leadership experience, including cross-geography hiring and team building

• Solid experience in high-volume semiconductor/electronics manufacturing, data visualization tools, and manufacturing systems/databases (MES)

• Extensive understanding of semiconductor, PCBA and system level manufacturing and testing

• Extensive expertise in statistical analysis (SPC, DOE, regression, hypothesis testing) and six sigma methodologies

• Extensive expertise in analysing and visualising large manufacturing datasets

• Proficiency in data tools such as Python, SQL, JMP, or similar. - Demonstrated success driving yield and cost improvements in high-volume production

• Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and communicating clearly and concisely across the organisation

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or similar

Desirable:

• Extensive experience and expertise in JMP and in using the JMP scripting language to build standard analysis reports, dashboards and applications

• Experience in using data visualisation tools such as Apache Superset

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.