Sr Director, Power Packaging & Module Development

Job Description

onsemi (NASD: ON) is a global semiconductor supplier company, with headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company is recognized as a Fortune 500 company and included in the Nasdaq-100 Index and the S&P 500 index. Products include power and signal management, logic, discrete, and custom devices for automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace and power applications. onsemi runs a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and design centers in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions.

onsemi was founded in 1999. The company was originally a spinoff of Motorola's Semiconductor Components Group, then named ON Semiconductor. It continues to manufacture Motorola's discrete, standard analog, and standard logic devices. In 2021, to better reflect its broad technology portfolio, differentiated product lines, and market leadership, ON Semiconductor rebranded itself as onsemi.

Today, the industrial and automotive end-markets are responsible for two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emission, providing opportunity for onsemi to do its part in achieving a net-zero economy with its intelligent power and sensing technologies. Climate change presents not only a risk to the environment, but also opportunities for innovative business solutions, and onsemi is committed to applying its research and design expertise and adapting its own operations to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040.

Under the new tagline, "Intelligent Technology. Better Future", onsemi plans to break through traditional thinking and market barriers to create innovative and game-changing solutions that solve customers' most difficult design challenges, and support revolution. onsemi's value proposition includes a unique combination of deep systems knowledge, technology leadership and industry leading manufacturing.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Group President, Power Solutions Group, the Senior Director of Module Development will play a crucial role in developing the next generation of high-power modules for onsemi's power products. Flawless execution is a core value of the engineering organization, and the Senior Director of Module Development will lead the company in defining and delivering to the roadmap to fulfill business objectives. This role is instrumental in delivering high quality products to the market ahead of the competition by designing high power modules for multiple markets including automotive, industrial and AI.

• The Senior Director of Module Development will work closely with customers, and cross-functionally with all engineering and product management teams while ensuring complete alignment with the manufacturing teams. This role demands a deep understanding of module development using power discretes, material science, packaging architectures, electromechanical and thermal modeling, simulation and design for manufacturing. This leader will work closely with the technical leadership in onsemi's Business Groups to create technology and module roadmaps supporting power system product roadmaps.
• Business performance mandates a leader capable of driving down cost while meeting technical product requirements. Cost optimization is essential where this leader will perform tradeoffs during the design cycle, across material selection, process flow and backend assembly.
• In addition to technical leadership, the role is responsible for defining and delivering a market-leading roadmap through innovation. The role involves direct customer engagement and requires the ability to understand and anticipate or drive market trends, competitive dynamics, and customer demands.
• The ideal candidate will exhibit exceptional leadership skills, capable of uniting global teams and driving them towards common goals. They will be expected to instill a culture of excellence and implement best-in-class engineering practices. This role is integral to the company's mission of delivering cutting-edge products that meet and exceed customer expectations, ensuring sustained growth and innovation.

Key Accountabilities

• Development of multiple high power modules including automotive power boxes for traction inverters, EV charging infrastructure, solar inverters and AI.
• Management of product lifecycles from product definition to manufacturing release
• Creating best-in-class modeling and simulation capabilities of new module designs to reduce development time and improve product performance
• Lead teams to create Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA) for module development
• Work with onsemi's Operations team from proof-of-concept to volume manufacturing to achieve high quality and high yield products
• Work with onsemi's Operation team to evaluate design tradeoffs to establish the entitlement by module category to reduce cost and optimize performance
• Leading activities with external contract manufacturing including joint development agreements
• Support of failure analysis process (root cause through containment and corrective action implementation)
• Design products capable of achieving first pass success on all product quality requirements
• Interpreting product and technology qualification specifications (including JEDEC compliant and AEC-Q100 automotive qualifications) and their impact on module design
• Methods for creating and managing effective Design of Experiment (DOE) with statistical analysis
• Design support to reduce the effects of frontend backend interaction in product qualification failures
• Collaboration in manufacturing operations including supply chain set up and integration, product ramp up, capacity planning, yield management, cost model development and price negotiations

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Engineering, Material Science, Physics or similar. Ph.D preferred
• Successful R&D track record and project management skills
• Automotive industry knowledge and experience working at tier-1 supporting OEM designs of high voltage power systems
• Development and delivery of modules for diverse applications including, but not limited to automobile and solar
• Develop, maintain and execute technology and product roadmaps for diverse product portfolios
• Demonstrated track record of delivering impact for the business through developing world-class products.
• Demonstrated the ability to build constructive and effective relationships with other functions and across business lines.

About Us

onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world's most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.

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About the Team

We are committed to sourcing, attracting, and hiring high-performance innovators, while providing all candidates a positive recruitment experience that builds our brand as a great place to work.

onsemi is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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