Director, Electronic Design Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership Contribute to and execute the short and long-term GaN MMIC product development and technology roadmap.
• Align engineering resources and development initiatives with corporate growth objectives and market opportunities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, competitive offerings, and industry trends to identify innovation opportunities.
• Engineering Leadership Lead and develop multiple MMIC design teams responsible for GaN-on-SiC based products.
• Establish engineering objectives, organizational structures, and resource plans to achieve development goals.
• Build a high-performance culture focused on innovation, accountability, quality, and execution.
• Recruit, retain, mentor, and develop world-class engineering talent.
• Manage managers, technical leads, and senior individual contributors.
• Product Development Execution Direct multiple concurrent development programs from concept through product qualification and release to production.
• Ensure projects meet performance, schedule, cost, quality, yield, and reliability objectives.
• Drive development process improvements and best practices across all engineering activities.
• Oversee design reviews and provide executive-level technical guidance for critical design decisions.
• Ensure effective utilization of Agile development methodologies and project management tools.
• Cross-Functional Leadership Partner with Product Engineering, Operations, Quality, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams to ensure successful product commercialization.
• Drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Testability (DFT), yield improvement, and product reliability initiatives.
• Lead executive program reviews and communicate project status, risks, mitigation plans, and resource requirements.
• Facilitate organizational alignment to accelerate time-to-market and maximize business impact.
• Customer and Business Engagement Serve as the senior technical interface for key customers and strategic business opportunities.
• Support Product Management in customer visits, technical proposals, feasibility studies, and design-win activities.
• Provide executive-level technical leadership during customer escalations and strategic engagements.
• Collaborate with business leaders to identify new market opportunities and growth initiatives.
• Technology Leadership Guide architecture and design strategy for advanced RF and microwave GaN MMIC solutions.
• Champion innovation in GaN and related semiconductor technologies.
• Foster intellectual property development through patents, publications, and proprietary technology advancements.
• Establish partnerships with universities, research organizations, foundries, and technology suppliers.