About the role
This role serves as the reliability architect for complex power-module and advanced-packaging platforms, leading strategy from concept through qualification and product release. You will translate customer use conditions and mission profiles into design-for-reliability requirements, characterization plans, and qualification strategies for high-power applications.
What you'll do
- Own the reliability strategy for complex power-module and advanced-packaging platforms, including die, interconnect, package, materials, and assembly-process qualification.
- Translate customer use conditions, system mission profiles, and application requirements into measurable reliability targets, acceleration models, stress conditions, and qualification plans.
- Apply physics-of-failure and design-for-reliability methods to identify critical failure mechanisms, define reliability margins, and guide design and material selections.
- Develop and deploy reliability test and characterization methods across electrical, thermal, mechanical, environmental, and power-cycling stresses.
- Lead investigations and technical closure of reliability failures through structured failure analysis, root-cause determination, and corrective action validation.
- Serve as a key quality and reliability interface with customers during product development, qualification, and issue resolution.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in semiconductor, power-electronics, packaging, or product reliability, including leadership of complex qualification programs.
- Demonstrated experience with die- and package-level reliability, advanced packaging, power modules, and associated failure mechanisms.
- Strong knowledge of reliability test methods, acceleration principles, qualification planning, and industry standards such as JEDEC, AEC-Q, and AQG 324.
- Experience translating customer use conditions or system mission profiles into reliability requirements and validation plans.
- Working knowledge of statistical analysis and reliability methods using JMP, ReliaSoft, Minitab, Python, or equivalent tools.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- Experience with high-power semiconductor devices and modules, including Si, IGBT, SiC, or GaN technologies.
- Experience with thermal-mechanical reliability, interconnect reliability, power cycling, temperature cycling, humidity-bias testing, and lifetime modeling.
- Experience supporting automotive or industrial customers and working within structured product-development and change-control processes.
- Experience developing new test methods or test vehicles where existing industry-standard methods are insufficient.
Skills: Physics-of-Failure, JEDEC, AEC-Q, AQG 324, Advanced Packaging
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 47-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
509
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Median days open
47 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$150k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | onsemi | All employers we track in this specialty (509 roles · 77 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 21 | 509 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 262 | 10092 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 62 d | 47 d (+15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $150k |
Skills observed across this category: Physics-of-Failure, JEDEC, AEC-Q, AQG 324, Advanced Packaging
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 75 open roles · median 65 d
- Infineon Technologies · 36 open roles · median 47 d
- Renesas Electronics · 26 open roles · median 26 d
- onsemi (this employer) · 19 open roles · median 89 d
- STMicroelectronics · 19 open roles · median 25 d
- Analog Devices · 17 open roles · median 70 d
How we counted: 509 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 77 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 4 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.