Senior Principal Engineer, Silicon Device & Key Product Enablement

Analog Devices•Wilmington, MA

22d•$167,090 - $241,955

About The Position

Analog Devices is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership within its Key Product Enablement team. The role enables strategically important semiconductor products from development through qualification, transfer, ramp, and high-volume manufacturing. It requires deep expertise in semiconductor devices, device physics, silicon technology, and process integration, together with an understanding of how device and process characteristics affect product electrical performance, yield, reliability, and manufacturability. The Senior Principal Engineer serves as a technical authority connecting product and design requirements with device capability, silicon technology, fab execution, reliability, and manufacturing strategy. The position defines technical direction for complex product and technology initiatives, influences roadmaps and senior-level decisions, resolves complex cross-disciplinary problems, and mentors senior technical contributors. The role requires 15 or more years of relevant semiconductor industry experience and an MS or PhD in a relevant field. Required travel is 10% of the time, and the shift is 1st Shift/Days.

Requirements

MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Semiconductor Device Physics, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or a related field.
15+ years of relevant semiconductor industry experience.
Deep expertise in semiconductor device physics, device characterization, and silicon technology.
Strong understanding of the relationship between device characteristics, process variation, and product electrical performance.
Extensive knowledge of wafer fabrication, process integration, semiconductor manufacturing, and product qualification.
Demonstrated experience solving complex technical problems across device, product, process, yield, and reliability domains.
Experience supporting technology development, product transfers, fab or foundry qualification, or manufacturing ramps.
Strong analytical, technical leadership, and cross-functional communication skills.
Exceptional autonomy, technical judgment, influence, and accountability.
Required travel of 10% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Broad device expertise across technologies such as CMOS, bipolar or BiCMOS, JFET, high-voltage devices, SiGe, precision passives, and other specialty analog technologies.
Experience with analog, mixed-signal, precision, power, RF, or other high-performance semiconductor products.
Experience developing or enabling products requiring new devices, device models, test structures, or process capabilities.
Experience transferring products or technologies between internal fabs and external foundries.
Strong understanding of semiconductor reliability, qualification, device modeling, and failure mechanisms.
Demonstrated technical innovation and leadership across global engineering and manufacturing organizations.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical authority for silicon and device-related aspects of key product enablement.
Develop deep understanding of key products, including device architecture, silicon technology, electrical performance, and manufacturing dependencies.
Translate product requirements into device, process, modeling, characterization, and manufacturing requirements.
Identify critical device and process parameters affecting product performance, matching, yield, and reliability.
Provide technical leadership for new device development and integration required to enable next-generation products.
Lead technical aspects of product and process transfers across internal fabs and external foundries, ensuring electrical performance, yield, and reliability are maintained.
Drive resolution of complex problems spanning device physics, circuit behavior, process technology, yield, reliability, and manufacturing.
Analyze device, wafer-level, process, yield, and product-test data to establish relationships between silicon variation and product performance.
Identify technology risks and develop mitigation strategies supporting product qualification, capacity expansion, manufacturing transfers, and continuity of supply.
Influence device and technology roadmaps, fab strategies, qualification approaches, and technology investment decisions.
Mentor senior engineers and strengthen device and silicon expertise across engineering and manufacturing organizations.
Define technical direction for complex, strategically important product and technology initiatives.
Establish technical methodologies and best practices for product-to-device-to-process understanding.
Mentor Principal Engineers and other senior technical contributors.