Reliability Engineer (Power Devices)
Team: R&D Engineering
Location: Cambridge
Contract: Permanent (Full time or part time)
This role is based at the company’s office and lab in Cambridge, UK, and requires occasional travel. It is also suitable for a graduate engineer.
Main Responsibilities
- Design and execute device reliability characterisation experiments of GaN power ICs
- Develop characterisation strategies and test planning (DOE)
- Develop GaN device reliability models
- Develop new test methods for GaN-IC reliability
- Help write reliability‑specific application notes and white papers
- Design and run customer‑specific tests
- Liaise with electrical engineers for the development of reliability characterisation systems
Requirements
Essential
- A degree in a relevant engineering or science subject
- Knowledge of statistical methods for data analysis and software such as JMP, Minitab or Python
- Strategic thinker with practical skills
- Inspires confidence in colleagues, partners and customers
- Comfortable in a fast‑paced start‑up environment
- Willing and able to travel and work with partners in Europe, the Americas and Asia
- Pro‑active by nature, responsive to changing needs of the projects and business
- Good communication and presentation skills, especially writing white papers and application notes and presenting technical topics to an audience
- A mindset for precise and high‑quality results
- An eye for detail
Desirable
- Some knowledge of power semiconductor device reliability, preferably GaN
- Some knowledge and understanding of wide bandgap semiconductor device physics, preferably GaN power devices
- Knowledge of power electronics, particularly power electronic circuits for reliability testing
- Experience with finite element modelling (TCAD and multi‑physics)
Benefits
- Excellent salary
- Share options scheme available (own a piece of the company)
- Pension scheme (6% Company contribution)
- Life Assurance (3x Salary)
- Medicash Cash Plan
- Flexible working options (location and times)
- Annual leave allowance of 33 days (including bank holidays)
- Training and career development
- Family friendly policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- EV leasing scheme
- Volunteer leave policy
- IP bonus scheme
- Involvement in collaborative projects and grants with University of Cambridge and other partners
- Recruitment referral bonus
- Regular social events including frequent company lunches, annual summer party, Christmas party, team building and wellbeing activities
We believe in equal opportunities
It takes a diverse and inclusive community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a system to shape the future of power electronics. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all employees. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.
We are well set up for collaborative hybrid working, with some members of the team working in the UK office and some from home in the UK and other cities in Europe and Asia.
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