Lead Principal Reliability (f/m/div)

We are looking for a Lead Principal Reliability (f/m/div) in our Quality & Reliability team to 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.

Your role

Key responsibilities in your new role:

• Act as the global technical authority for package and system reliability, interconnect technologies, and cross-platform reliability methods - owning standards, best practices, and direction across Business Lines.
• Set and steer long-term reliability strategy and qualification approaches for new and existing package and system platforms; align roadmaps with customer needs, market trends, and business goals.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers and principal experts; contribute to global design and peer reviews; build a strong community of practice that raises the bar for reliability across sites and functions.
• Anticipate and translate emerging science and technology into practical solutions - evaluating new materials, architectures, and test methodologies to deliver fast and profitable reliability solutions.
• Lead critical problem resolution teams: run rigorous, data-driven root cause analysis, orchestrate global expert teams, and de-risk technology ramps and field performance for high-volume products.
• Represent Infineon with strategic customers and suppliers, influence industry standards and key technical decisions.

Your profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed:

• Advanced degree (MSc/PhD) in Materials Science, Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
• 15+ years professional experience in semiconductor packaging/ reliability.
• Hands-on expertise in semiconductor package and system reliability, interconnects, materials, failure mechanisms, and qualification (e.g., JEDEC, AEC-Q); strong understanding of cross-platform interdependencies and application requirements.
• Recognized thought leader and coach with a track record of setting technical direction, mentoring senior talent, and gaining alignment among senior stakeholders across organizations and regions.
• Strong business impact: you shape reliability strategy, influence product and technology roadmaps and standards, and turn technical insight into long-term customer value and competitive advantage.
• Proven problem solver: analytical, hypothesis-driven, and data-based decision maker with experience in DOE/statistics, failure analysis, and thermo-mechanical modeling/FEA; effective leading through ambiguity.
• Innovation driver: you challenge conventions, create and scale new methodologies, tools, and governance, and balance opportunity and risk while delivering measurable results.
• Fluency in English, willing to travel internationally (approx. 10 - 20%).