Job Description

About Operations Engineering Division (OED): 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:

This role plays a crucial leadership role in semiconductor manufacturing, focusing on the development, deployment, and management of yield data analytics solutions aimed at driving yield improvements across the 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.

Key Responsibilities:

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 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

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Physics or a related field.  A master's degree or PhD is preferred.

Experience

• 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.

Skills

• 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)

Additional Information

ルネサスは、「To Make Our Lives Easier 」(人々の暮らしを楽"ラク"にする)というPurposeの下、組み込み半導体ソリューションを提供します。高品質とシステムレベルノウハウを兼ね備えた組み込み半導体のリーダーとして、自動車、産業、インフラ・IoT分野向けに、ハイパフォーマンスコンピューティング、組み込みプロセッシング、アナログ&コネクティビティ、そしてパワーを含めた幅広い製品ポートフォリオを軸とした、スケーラブルで包括的なソリューションを提供しています。

 

ルネサスは、30か国以上で22,000 人を超える多様性あふれる従業員と共に、限界に挑戦しながら、デジタライゼーションを通じてユーザエクスペリエンスを充実化させ、新たなイノベーションの時代を切り開いていきます。そして世界中の人々やコミュニティの未来のために、持続可能で省エネ効果の高いソリューションの開発に全力で取り組み、「To Make Our Lives Easier」を実現します。    

 

ルネサスで実現できること

 

• キャリアをスタート、そしてキャリアアップ:4つのプロダクトグループをはじめ、さまざまな部門において技術職として、また幅広いビジネスの経験を積むことができます。ハードウェア、ソフトウェアの専門知識を深めたり、新しいことにチャレンジしたりする機会があります。 
  
   
• やりがいとインパクトのある仕事をする: 革新的な製品とソリューションの開発に関わることにより、世界中のお客様のニーズに応えると同時に、人々の生活をより便利で安全かつ安心なものにすることに貢献できます。
  
   
• 「ウェルビーイング」に焦点を置いた環境で最大限に能力を発揮する:ルネサスでは、リモートワーク制度などによる柔軟な勤務体制づくり、また従業員リソースグループの積極的な活動をサポートするなど、インクルーシブな職場環境構築を目指しています。従業員を第一に考えたカルチャーとグローバルなサポート体制が、入社後すぐに活躍できる環境を提供します。 

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