Senior Principal GaN/SiC Reliability Engineer

Nexperia

Senior Principal Reliability Engineer ensuring reliability and durability of GaN/SiC products. Involves collaboration with various teams and driving reliability testing and improvements.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeMunich • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Assembly

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop and manage the reliability test plan for GaN/SiC products and calculate extrapolated lifetime for given mission profiles
Enable early identification and characterization of failure mechanisms and link to performance and lifetime limitations through simulation and predictive analytics
Determining the effect of the different stress factors on the lifetime and plot the failure distribution for each stressor as result of test-to-fail
Derive lifetime models and drifts prediction for main parameters
Identify fail-in-time estimation (FIT, ppm)
Setup a lifetime estimation model fitting customers application profile, derive pass/fail criteria
Collaborate closely with design, quality, product engineering, packaging, and process technology teams to drive Design for Reliability (DfR) into product development
Identify and address reliability gaps and drive reliability improvements activities
Monitor failure analysis investigation to understand the main wear-out failure mechanisms

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master's Degree or equivalent in Experimental Physics, Electronics Engineering, or a similar discipline, PhD preferred
Strong knowledge of GaN and SiC semiconductor physics, or at least of one of the two technologies
Minimum 7 years of experience of power semiconductor devices, ideally wide band gap and GaN HEMTs
Understanding of mechanical, electrical and thermal failure modes in semiconductor products, and failure analysis techniques
Knowledge of international quality standards such as JEDEC, AEC-Q101, AQG 324, reliability test to fail methods, and reliability test equipment
Experience working within GaN and/or SiC reliability in an industrial environment
Strong knowledge of wafer fab processes
Knowledge of assembly process preferred
Strong data analysis skills (JMP, MATLAB, etc.)
Fluent spoken and written English skills
Strong know how in statistical data analysis
Excellent communication and presentation skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

Travel EU, <10% of time
In office collaboration with experienced and diverse Quality team
Possibility to join employee resource groups such as the Pride Network Group
Safe work environment and reasonable adjustments where requested

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Hard Skills & Tools

GaN semiconductor physicsSiC semiconductor physicspower semiconductor devicesfailure analysis techniquesreliability test methodslifetime estimation modelsstatistical data analysisdata analysiswafer fab processesassembly process

Soft Skills

communication skillspresentation skillscollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinking

Certifications

Master's DegreePhDAEC-Q101AQG 324JEDEC