Principal Product Engineer - Bengaluru, India
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves end-to-end ownership of product lifecycle activities from engineering material planning through qualification, characterization, product release, and volume-production support. The Principal Product Engineer acts as a lead within the project, owning characterization, qualification plan, production release, and industrial activities.
What you'll do
- Own the assigned product lifecycle from first silicon through qualification and production release.
- Drive first-silicon bring-up and debug with Design, Test, and Applications teams.
- Plan and coordinate voltage, temperature, and process characterization, including production limit setting.
- Create and maintain product BOMs and product lifecycle data in PLM systems like Agile.
- Own qualification planning and execution in accordance with JEDEC and AEC requirements.
- Monitor production data and use statistical analysis to identify and correct yield, quality, and test-time deficiencies; drive yield improvement.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering or industrial engineering.
- At least 15 years of relevant semiconductor experience spanning product engineering, NPI, manufacturing, and test.
- Practical understanding of semiconductor wafer fabrication, assembly, test, qualification, and production-release flows.
- Experience managing engineering wafer starts, prototype builds, customer samples, inventory, and product BOMs.
- Working knowledge of SoC and mixed-signal device testing, common circuit building blocks, device behavior, and semiconductor test methodology.
- Familiarity with ATE platforms such as Teradyne J750 or Advantest V93000, and with laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, and digital multimeters.
- Familiarity with JEDEC/AEC qualification standards, qualification hardware/software, and semiconductor failure analysis.
- Experience with PLM and yield-management tools such as Agile, PDF Exensio, or JMP.
- Experience working with external foundries, OSATs, subcontractors, and globally distributed product teams.
- Experience with failure analysis methods.
Skills: product lifecycle, first-silicon bring-up, characterization, JEDEC/AEC qualification, yield improvement, ATE platforms
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 78-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
59
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Median days open
78 d
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Median salary
$159k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (59 roles · 24 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 59 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 108 | 2135 · 111 employers |
| Median days open | 0 d | 78 d (−78 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $159k |
Skills observed across this category: product lifecycle, first-silicon bring-up, characterization, JEDEC/AEC qualification, yield improvement, ATE platforms
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 13 open roles · median 146 d
- Analog Devices · 9 open roles · median 33 d
- Qualcomm · 5 open roles · median 78 d
- QORVO · 3 open roles · median 24 d
- STMicroelectronics · 3 open roles · median 78 d
- Texas Instruments · 3 open roles · median 51 d
How we counted: 59 open Product Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 24 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 Sept 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.