Director Semiconductor Reliability and Failure Analysis
$175,000 - $250,000 USD yearly
About the role
This role directs the global product quality and reliability team at the division level, focusing on best-in-class reliability and failure analysis activities for Discrete Si, SiC, and power ICs.
What you'll do
- Oversee Global Reliability and Failure Analysis to ensure product quality and reliability.
- Support key customer issues to achieve quality standards.
- Review engineering designs with R&D to contribute quality and reliability requirements.
- Represent the MOSFET division in industry communities like JEDEC and AECQ.
- Design and drive quality and reliability requirements for wide-bandgap (SiC) power product release.
- Establish methodology to test and characterize SiC power semiconductor devices for reliability and failure mechanisms.
What you'll need
- PhD or Masters-level degree in electronics engineering, physics, or microelectronics-related field.
- 15+ years of experience in quality and reliability in the semiconductor industry.
- Familiarity with reliability and failure modes of power semiconductor discrete devices, power ICs, and SiC.
- 5+ years of experience in wide-bandgap power semiconductor technology (ideally SiC).
- Experience leading global team in reliability testing of SiC MOSFETs and diodes at wafer- and package-level.
- Understanding of statistical analysis and design of experiments.
- Knowledge of semiconductor TCAD tools for device simulation (e.g., Synopsys Sentaurus, Silvaco Victory).
Nice to have
- Experience with GaN.
Skills: reliability, failure analysis, SiC, JEDEC, AECQ, power semiconductor
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This role has been open 31 days — well below the 44-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
518
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Median days open
44 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$151k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Vishay Intertechnology | All employers we track in this specialty (518 roles · 78 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 13 | 518 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 168 | 10057 · 117 employers |
| Median days open | 52 d | 44 d (+8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $151k |
Skills observed across this category: reliability, failure analysis, SiC, JEDEC, AECQ, power semiconductor
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 75 open roles · median 73 d
- Infineon Technologies · 42 open roles · median 32 d
- Renesas Electronics · 26 open roles · median 25 d
- onsemi · 22 open roles · median 65 d
- STMicroelectronics · 19 open roles · median 29 d
- Analog Devices · 16 open roles · median 64 d
How we counted: 518 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 78 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.