Director Foundry Yield Engineering

This role plays a crucial leadership role in semiconductor NPI and manufacturing, focusing on the development, deployment, and management of yield data analytics solutions aimed at driving yield improvements across the NPI and manufacturing process. The role involves managing functionally a team of data experts and analysts to develop innovative methodologies that provide actionable insights into NPI and production foundry yield performance.  The director collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, including engineers, industrial yield platform suppliers, IT and operations, to ensure that analytics solutions are aligned with business goals and improve production outcomes.  Foundry Yield team leader image to all Renesas foundries.   

This position is a hybrid role three days a week in office

  Strategic Leadership 

• Develop and execute the overall strategy for yield analytics solutions, aligning with organizational objectives and production goals. 

• Lead initiatives that integrate advanced data analytics, machine learning, and AI technologies into the yield improvement process. 

• Drive innovation by identifying emerging trends and technologies in data analytics and applying them to yield enhancement. 

• Foundry Ops yield team interface to IT team for yield tool definition and collaborating for yield tool user acceptance testing and roll-out. 

Technical leadership – owner of Renesas foundry yield and support all product groups 

• Drive all Renesas foundries to improve yield to achieve cost saving goals 

• Identify foundry yield improvement opportunities by collaborating with PG design/ PE /TE / Process Tech / QA and foundry management  

• Benchmark foundry defect driven yield across the board. 

• Drive cutting edge technology yield improvement to achieve fast ramp and cost efficiency. 

• Support NPI gate defect driven yield model optimization 

• Provide foundry excursion and critical Tier 1 customer RMA data analysis support to ensure continuity of the supply and customers’ satisfactions. 

Team Management 

• Provide direction and oversight on projects, ensuring that deliverables meet quality standards and deadlines. 

• Daily monitor team’s data loading activities to ensure on time and accurate data in the yield analytic platforms 

• Facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team and across departments. 

Performance Monitoring and Reporting 

•  Provide regular updates and reports to senior management, highlighting successes, challenges, and opportunities for further improvement. 

•  Utilize dashboards and visualization tools to present complex data insights in a clear and actionable manner. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Primary interface to R&D for NPI foundry safe launch, foundry excursion data and customer RMA data analytics 

• Present foundry safe launch data / report to Tier 1 customer 

• Drive foundry excursion, CIP, Tier 1 customer RMA discussions with QA, foundry, FTM , Design and Product/test engineering 

• Attend / drive weekly foundry to PG interface meetings to provide valuable guidance inputs on yield improvement 
   

• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor foundry yield improvement, with at least 3-5 years in a leadership role. 

• Proven experience in developing and deploying analytics solutions that drive yield improvement in an NPI and manufacturing environment. 

• Foundry process and yield enhancement experience and familiar with foundry yield improvement methodologies. 

• Strong track record of managing and leading global and  cross-functional teams to achieve strategic objectives. 

• Strong knowledge of semiconductor foundry manufacturing processes and yield analysis methodologies. 

• Good communication skills 

• Strong leadership and able to influence 

• Expertise in data analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI, JMP, Exensio ) and programming languages (e.g., Python, R). 

• Deep understanding of machine learning algorithms, statistical modeling, and their application in manufacturing yield improvement. 

• Deep understanding of foundry process (advanced logic FinFet and BCD) 

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

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