Job Description

• Own and drive technical strategy and execution for NPI projects from early characterization through stable production ramp.
• Define and strategize NPI best practices, technical review check points, and readiness criteria across multiple projects.
• Own key technical decisions and trade-offs impacting yield, cost, and time to market.
• Drive NPI milestones with strong sense of urgency to meet schedule, quality, and yield targets.
• Capture and fan out lessons learnt to Improve future NPI execution and release into production.
• Provide technical mentorship and coaching to junior engineers, raising overall team capability and execution quality.

• Lead deep data analysis to ensure test stability, yield consistency, and overall product quality.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights to drive engineering and leadership decisions.
• Perform structured data analysis and root cause investigations on yield loss and test anomalies, driving data backed decisions.

• Lead NPI bring-up activities, including temperature and voltage characterization, and full product validation.
• Validate test strategies including bench testing and ATE correlation, ensuring robust test coverage, long term stability, and scalability for high volume manufacturing.
• Define production readiness criteria, control plans, and ramp guardrails for stable transition into mass manufacturing.
• Ensure test yield entitlement is achieved before release to sustaining engineering team.
• Drive test program maturity through practical test limits setting, long term test stability, and coverage optimization.

• Drive permanent, structural corrective actions and validate effectiveness through data.
• Establish a strong quality mindset in NPI test limit setting, and NPI lot disposition decisions.
• Strengthen revision control, qualification strategies and change management to prevent quality escapes during NPI.
• Proactive identify systemic risks and influence design, test, or process changes early in development.

• Ensure complete, accurate documentation and archival of all NPI deliverables.
• Lead effective handover to sustaining engineering team, ensure clarity of ownership and risk.
• Provide technical guidance and escalation support during mass production as required.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of working experience in Product Engineering or Test Engineering or Yield Engineering, or NPI.
• Strong hands-on experience with Bench testing, ATE platforms and advanced data analytics.
• Proven ability to lead cross-site problem-solving through technical influence.
• Comfortable making decisions under uncertainty during NPI and ramp phases.