Principal Engineer, Reliability Engineering

What You'll Do

• Drive GaN intrinsic reliability strategy across 100V–650V technologies, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps.
• Define and execute reliability qualification methodologies , including HTGB, HTRB, switching, and transient stress testing.
• Lead physics-of-failure (PoF) investigations , identifying degradation mechanisms and driving root-cause resolution.
• Develop and validate lifetime and reliability models (voltage, temperature, switching dependencies) for GaN devices.
• Drive product de-risking activities in collaboration with design and product teams, ensuring early reliability coverage.
• Provide technical leadership and decision-making authority on reliability risks, guardbands, and design recommendations.
• Develop and enhance intrinsic reliability test infrastructure , including ATE-based and custom stress systems.
• Define and advance next-generation reliability methodologies for GaN and wider WBG technologies (SiC, AlGaN, etc.).
• Required skills: PhD or MSc in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Semiconductor Engineering .
• Typically 10+ years’ experience in semiconductor reliability with significant GaN or WBG focus required.
• For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S.
• Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S.
• Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
• As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.
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• Job Req Type: Experienced Required Travel: No Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days