Vice President, Product Engineering

Originally posted 30 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

The Vice President of Product Engineering is the senior leader accountable for product engineering strategy, execution, and organizational performance across multiple wafer fabrication sites producing indium phosphide (InP)-based optoelectronic devices. The role reports to the EVP of Global Fabs and leads an organization that translates customer and business requirements into manufacturing solutions.

What you'll do

• Own the global product engineering strategy, operating model, staffing plan, technical roadmap, and budget for multiple InP wafer fabs.
• Lead the transfer of new InP-based optoelectronic products from design and development into qualified, high-volume manufacturing.
• Own product yield, electrical and optical performance, test yield, outgoing quality, product reliability, and cost improvement roadmaps across fabs.
• Drive structured problem solving using statistical process control, design of experiments, fault isolation, root-cause analysis, failure analysis, and corrective and preventive action methods.
• Standardize product engineering processes, metrics, data systems, documentation, and technical reviews across manufacturing sites.
• Serve as the senior technical interface for critical product performance, yield, quality, reliability, and customer escalation matters.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, materials science, physics, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related technical field.
• Typically 15 or more years of progressive experience in semiconductor, photonics, or optoelectronic product engineering, including substantial leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated success leading product engineering across multiple products, technologies, manufacturing sites, or geographically distributed teams.
• Understanding of semiconductor or optoelectronic device manufacturing, including compound semiconductor materials, epitaxy, wafer fabrication, optical and electrical test, reliability, and packaging interfaces.
• Proven record of improving yield, product performance, reliability, manufacturing stability, cycle time, and cost through data-driven engineering.
• Strong knowledge of new product introduction, product qualification, production ramp, configuration and change control, statistical methods, and structured problem-solving tools.

Nice to have

• Experience with InP-based lasers, photodetectors, modulators, photonic integrated circuits, or related optoelectronic components.
• Experience supporting high-volume wafer fabrication and downstream assembly and test operations for telecom, datacom, sensing, aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability markets.
• Familiarity with automated data systems, manufacturing execution systems, product lifecycle management, statistical analysis platforms, and advanced analytics.
• Experience with fab-to-fab product transfer, external foundry or supplier management, and customer qualification programs.
• Working knowledge of relevant semiconductor and quality standards, such as ISO 9001 and applicable automotive, telecom, aerospace, or customer-specific requirements.
• An advanced technical or business degree.

Skills: InP, optoelectronic, yield improvement, product qualification, NPI

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