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Your Role

As Lead Principal Engineer and Team Lead for High Voltage Product Definition Engineering (f/m/div), you will play a key role in shaping our power semiconductor product portfolio across SiC MOSFETs, SiC JFET technologies (including cascode and other variants), and CoolMOS. Your focus will be on ensuring technically excellent, market- and customer-aligned product definitions that deliver clear differentiation and strong value propositions for our target applications served by our devices in the 400V–1000V range. In this role, you will take ownership of the following key responsibilities:

• Lead the definition of new products and product families across SiC, SiC JFET/cascode, and CoolMOS, ensuring strong alignment with target applications such as AI datacenter power, renewables, EV charging, and SMPS
• Drive clear and compelling technical value propositions, ensuring strong differentiation across platforms in terms of efficiency, power density, cost, reliability, and performance
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of experienced Product Definition Engineers, fostering a high-performance and collaborative engineering culture
• Contribute to long-term technology and product strategy, shaping a customer-centric and future-ready product roadmap
• Ensure high-quality technical governance by reviewing and approving key deliverables such as datasheets, application notes, whitepapers, and competitive analyses
• Collaborate closely with Marketing, R&D, and Sales to translate real-world application needs into precise product specifications
• Maintain deep market and application insight in power electronics, especially in AI infrastructure and renewable energy, identifying portfolio gaps and new opportunities
• Act as a senior technical authority, driving system-level thinking, strategic decisions, and scalable product concepts across teams

Your Profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a closely related field (PhD preferred)
• 10+ years of hands on experience in power semiconductor product development, application engineering, or product definition
• Strong expertise in SiC and/or high-voltage Silicon technologies, including device concepts such as MOSFETs, JFETs, or Superjunction
• Proven experience in defining power devices for demanding applications (e.g. data centers, renewables, EV charging, industrial systems)
• Deep understanding of power conversion topologies and system-level requirements, including technology trade-offs
• Practical laboratory experience with power semiconductors, including characterization and validation
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear value propositions and differentiated product strategies
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills to guide experienced engineers and work across cross-functional teams; fluent in English (German is a plus)

We offer competitive salaries and additional benefits based on your performance, experience and qualification. The employment is in accordance with the collective salary and wage agreement for employees of the electrical and electronics industry, employment group J (https://www.feei.at/aktuelles/mindestloehne-und-gehaelter-eei/). The monthly salary is paid 14 times p.a. We offer a higher compensation depending on your expertise and skills.


Contact:
    Franziska Mantei, LinkedIn

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