Associate Yield Engineer - Renesas Electronics

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

  OED is the central team that supports all Business Unit Design and Development teams, and other organizations including Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Foundry Operations, and Test.  OED provides a platform for managing all process technology and PDK development for both Internal and External Foundry processes. This strong and highly qualified team (mostly MS/PhD) add strength in developing Test Technology, Foundry Operations, and Yield management. The team’s world class contributions lead to aggressive NPI strategies and continual cost and gross margin improvement.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review and provide daily reports for high volume products in production.  Report any excursions or limit violations.
• Monitor yield for high volume products. Analyze low yield material, align with Foundry Operations on mitigation and improvement opportunities
• Support fab excursion analytics
• Identify potential yield improvement opportunities on sustaining products and drive the execution.
• RMA / QA failures: first-pass analysis
• Improve product quality by automation of reporting through leverage of PDF Exensio / GA cloud tools
• Generate/Utilize/Rollout PDF EY/GA quality templates to detect and prevent potential quality excursions

Education Requirements

• BS or MS degree in a relevant academic program (e.g. Electrical Engineering, Data Science, …). MS in Electrical Engineering is preferred.
• Experience with statistical data processing, problem solving methodologies.
• Experience in yield management / statistical tools such as PDF Exensio, GA, JMP, minitab would be a plus. Able to apply statistical analysis to isolate the issue and make data-driven decisions.
• Experience with writing code/script in R and/or (Iron) Python would be a plus.
• Knowledge of mixed signal device circuitry would be a plus.
• Ability to managing supplier excursions and customer escalations through problem solving
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• A good team player. Effective in fast paced, dynamic work environment.

• BS or MS degree in a relevant academic program (e.g. Electrical Engineering, Data Science, …). MS in Electrical Engineering is preferred.
• Experience with statistical data processing, problem solving methodologies.
• Experience in yield management / statistical tools such as PDF Exensio, GA, JMP, minitab would be a plus. Able to apply statistical analysis to isolate the issue and make data-driven decisions.
• Experience with writing code/script in R and/or (Iron) Python would be a plus.
• Knowledge of mixed signal device circuitry would be a plus.
• Ability to managing supplier excursions and customer escalations through problem solving
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• A good team player. Effective in fast paced, dynamic work environment.

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at renesas.com.

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.