Semiconductors & Electronic Components Manager

Job title: Semiconductors & Electronic Components Manager

About the Role

As a Semiconductors & Electronic Components Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ZF’s ADAS & HPC business, leading cross-functional efforts to design, source, and validate electronic components for next-generation mobility technologies. You will drive localization plans, align with global strategies, and optimize the use of global resources to advance driver assistance and high-performance computing initiatives.

What You'll Do

• Lead cross-functional collaboration across portfolio, materials management, production and application engineering, and quality to drive component localization plans and ensure supply chain stability.

• Synthesize global part family component strategies and drive device selection; influence supplier device definitions to align with future product requirements.

• Collaborate with materials management for advanced sourcing activities, ensuring cost competitiveness and supply chain stability.

• Deliver market intelligence and guidance gathered from suppliers to internal stakeholders.

• Define requirements and deliver electronic components fulfilling future product requirements; enhance component performance by integrating IP.

• Conduct simulation reviews with suppliers and provide direction on features/functions.

• Offer expertise on integrated circuitry technologies and their impact on design performance, semiconductor fabrication, and packaging/assembly.

• Ensure complete data sheet and application-specific test verification via an automated test environment to characterize and benchmark component performance.

• Assess supplier validation plans and analyze results for component acceptance; confirm conformance of component-level functional safety.

• Drive development execution with suppliers including risk mitigation and ensure suppliers address any nonconformance.

• Ensure semiconductor development and supplier management comply with customer requirements and internal best practices; drive a structured approach for all component developments.

• Monitor and report development status; lead the technical interface with suppliers including global coordination of activities.

• What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in semiconductor and/or component-level development; automotive sector experience preferred.

• Proven ability to work independently with minimal oversight in a highly cross-functional, collaborative environment spanning multiple continents and time zones.

• Strong customer focus with persistent problem-solving capability.

• Excellent program management, communication, and stakeholder networking skills.

• Demonstrated familiarity with semiconductor industry trends and best practices, including continuous improvement, AEC-Q100, zero-defects strategies, 8D problem-solving, quality processes, advanced testing, manufacturing methodologies, and failure analysis.

• Solid understanding of integrated circuit design, wafer fabrication, assembly, and test processes.