Lead Principal Engineer Product Quality and Reliability (f/m/div)
Infineon Technologies
Germany
Posted on Apr 12, 2026
#WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life. Driving continuous improvement - ready to make quality a culture? As a Lead Principal Engineer Product Quality and Reliability on our Quality & Excellence team uncover the root causes behind every single error, drive transformational improvements, and implement forward-thinking solutions to ensure our products exceed the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance. Are you in?
Your Role
Key responsibilities in your new role
Qualifications And Skills To Help You Succeed
As a Lead Principal Engineer Product Quality and Reliability you commit yourself to the results of your own team and the company as a whole. You are an integral part of innovations during product development. Furthermore, you are personally committed to the customer’s concerns and award them a high priority. Lastly, you set yourself ambitious goals.
Darana Andrade
#WeAreIn for driving decarbonization and digitalization.
As a global leader in semiconductor solutions in power systems and IoT, Infineon enables game-changing solutions for green and efficient energy, clean and safe mobility, as well as smart and secure IoT. Together, we drive innovation and customer success, while caring for our people and empowering them to reach ambitious goals. Be a part of making life easier, safer and greener.
Are you in?
We are on a journey to create the best Infineon for everyone.
This means we embrace diversity and inclusion and welcome everyone for who they are. At Infineon, we offer a working environment characterized by trust, openness, respect and tolerance and are committed to give all applicants and employees equal opportunities. We base our recruiting decisions on the applicant´s experience and skills. Learn more about our various contact channels.
We look forward to receiving your resume, even if you do not entirely meet all the requirements of the job posting.
Please let your recruiter know if they need to pay special attention to something in order to enable your participation in the interview process.
Click here for more information about Diversity & Inclusion at Infineon.
Your Role
Key responsibilities in your new role
- Be responsible for escalation and crisis management including on site customer communication and methodical problem-solving support
- Be responsible for excursion management incl. defining, executing, assessing proper reliability tests and failure rate prediction
- Collaborate with technical marketing and regional teams to foster requirement capturing by active customer engagement
- Define risk and/or mission profile-based qualification and reliability testing concepts and assess test results during product development
- Contribute to qualification assessments in development projects (Q-team) and act as Q-Team leader
- Advise the team by providing risk assessment guidelines for risk material dispositions, reliability test referencing and product qualifications
- Be a mentor, share knowledge and foster talents within the team
- Transparently communicate within the international teams in Langen, Munich, Seoul and Cheonan
Qualifications And Skills To Help You Succeed
As a Lead Principal Engineer Product Quality and Reliability you commit yourself to the results of your own team and the company as a whole. You are an integral part of innovations during product development. Furthermore, you are personally committed to the customer’s concerns and award them a high priority. Lastly, you set yourself ambitious goals.
- M.Sc. degree in electronics, physics or similar, PhD is a plus
- At least 12 years of strong experience in the automotive semiconductor or electronics business with direct customer contact
- Broad product knowledge from wide band gap switch, gate driver, controller to (smart) IPM
- Have a deep understanding of power semiconductor reliability tests and failure mechanisms
- Solid knowledge on typical industrial and automotive applications (industrial drives, eCompressors, on board charger)
- Extensive comprehension of industrial and automotive standards relevant to power semiconductors
- Experience in crisis handling and with international customers
- Ability and resilience to work under pressure
- Proven technical leading
- Excellent internal and customer communication skills
- Proficiency in English, written and verbal, German or Korean are a plus
- Availability to travel in Europe and Asia
Darana Andrade
#WeAreIn for driving decarbonization and digitalization.
As a global leader in semiconductor solutions in power systems and IoT, Infineon enables game-changing solutions for green and efficient energy, clean and safe mobility, as well as smart and secure IoT. Together, we drive innovation and customer success, while caring for our people and empowering them to reach ambitious goals. Be a part of making life easier, safer and greener.
Are you in?
We are on a journey to create the best Infineon for everyone.
This means we embrace diversity and inclusion and welcome everyone for who they are. At Infineon, we offer a working environment characterized by trust, openness, respect and tolerance and are committed to give all applicants and employees equal opportunities. We base our recruiting decisions on the applicant´s experience and skills. Learn more about our various contact channels.
We look forward to receiving your resume, even if you do not entirely meet all the requirements of the job posting.
Please let your recruiter know if they need to pay special attention to something in order to enable your participation in the interview process.
Click here for more information about Diversity & Inclusion at Infineon.
