IC Product Engineer - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$125,000 - $185,000 USD yearly
About the role
As a Ferric IC Product Engineer, you will gain exposure to the full product-life of Ferric’s ICs by working with a diverse cross-functional team. You will develop, characterize, qualify, and production-release Ferric’s power management ICs.
What you'll do
- Work with IC design and test teams to create and review test plans, including recommendations for DFT & DFQ, test & debug visibility.
- Characterization of products across PVT on ATE and bench.
- Disposition of Wafer sort and Final test.
- Support and execute product qualification.
- Analysis of RMA Customer returns and root cause analysis.
- Development and execution of Python scripts to automate characterization and data acquisition of key DC-DC power-converter metrics.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s Degree in EE.
- 3+ years of industry experience and ATE experience.
- Familiarity with reliability, burn-in circuit design, data analysis, and automation.
- Detailed knowledge of semiconductor product life cycle from post silicon bring up, device characterization, device qualification, pre-production support, release to volume production and product sustenance.
- Strong data analytical skills in the evaluation and characterization of power semiconductors.
- Strong test development skills along with the ability to define hardware/software needs for debug.
- Yield analysis and circuit debug experience with 6-sigma quality practices.
- Experience with hands-on product characterization methodologies (planning, understanding of measurement techniques and use of lab equipment).
- Understanding of statistical analysis techniques (SPC, CPK, CPU, CPL).
- Strong knowledge of device physics.
- Familiarity with industry standard reliability testing and failure analysis.
- Electrical and Thermal characterization.
- Familiarity with wafer fabrication and packaging process.
- Experience in probe and final test operation.
- Experience with automating data analysis.
Nice to have
- Master’s Degree in EE.
- PCB design.
- Python Programming.
- Software experience with Cadence Allegro, Xilinx ISE, Linux & Windows operating systems.
Skills: product characterization, product qualification, ATE, yield analysis, failure analysis
This role has been open 47 days — well below the 78-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Power Management
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Open roles in category
36
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Median days open
78 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | Ferric | All employers we track in this specialty (36 roles · 15 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 36 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 2 | 2249 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 47 d | 78 d (−31 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: product characterization, product qualification, ATE, yield analysis, failure analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 5 open roles · median 71 d
- Renesas Electronics · 5 open roles · median 61 d
- Vishay Intertechnology · 4 open roles · median 94 d
- Nexperia · 3 open roles · median 82 d
- onsemi · 3 open roles · median 94 d
- Texas Instruments · 3 open roles · median 33 d
How we counted: 36 open Product Engineering (Power Management) roles from 15 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Oct 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.