Principal Product Engineer

Responsibilities

• Drive yield, quality and cost optimisation across the product lifecycle, including chip manufacturing, test, PCBA and system level manufacturing
• Work closely with test engineering to define requirements for coverage, reporting and datalog formats from both ATE and system level electrical test
• Own analytics for SMT manufacturing processes, including SPI/AOI/AXI/ICT etc
• Own analytics for board and system level testing, including boundary scan and functional testing at board/blade/rack level
• Work with technology and manufacturing specialists to manage low yield events in production and drive overall yield improvement
• Support RMA analysis and reliability/qualification activities
• Establish best practices for data collection, cleaning, correlation, and visualization
• Collaborate with the Data Engineering and Analytics team to develop loading scripts for new data sources and optimise database schemas
• Define and develop standard analyses such as dashboards and enable fast self-service access to data for end users
• Regular travel to OSATs and manufacturing partners will be required

Requirements

• 10+ years in semiconductor product engineering, test engineering, or manufacturing engineering
• Experience in high-volume semiconductor/electronics manufacturing
• Experience with data visualization tools and manufacturing systems/databases (MES)
• Understanding of semiconductor, PCBA and system level manufacturing and testing
• Expertise in statistical analysis (SPC, DOE, regression, hypothesis testing) and six sigma methodologies
• Expertise in analysing and visualising large manufacturing datasets
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, JMP, or similar
• Demonstrated success driving yield and cost improvements in high-volume production
• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or similar

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive expertise in JMP and JMP scripting language
• Experience with Apache Superset

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working
• Generous annual leave policy
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Dental plan
• Pension (matched up to 5%)
• Life assurance and income protection
• Generous parental leave policy
• Employee assistance programme
• Healthy food, snacks, and barista bar at the Bristol office

About the Company

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale.