Global Commodity Engineer (f/m/d) – Integrated Circuits

You’ll make an impact by

• You define and drive the implementation and continuous evolution of the global Integrated Circuit commodity strategy ensuring a high-quality, competitive and future-ready portfolio. You identify emerging technologies, industry trends, and supplier capabilities, and translate them into a technology roadmap that supports current and future business requirements.
• You collaborate closely with R&D, Procurement, Engineering and Supply Chain to ensure that technical requirements, product expectations, and customer needs are effectively translated into supplier specifications and qualification criteria.
• You lead and coordinate the global Commodity Engineering network for ICs and ensure effective collaboration across locations. You foster knowledge sharing, drive alignment on technical standards and engineering approaches, and act as the key technical authority for IC-related topics.
• You Drive standardization, risk mitigation, second-source strategies and cost optimization.
• You coordinate supplier qualification and material approval activities ensuring that suppliers meet all technical, quality, and regulatory requirements. You define qualification standards, assess manufacturing capabilities, and drive risk mitigation measures throughout the supply chain.
• You monitor supplier performance through defined KPIs and establish improvement plans where necessary. You lead supplier development activities, coordinate corrective and preventive actions, and support root-cause analysis for supplier-related quality issues.
• Monitor market developments, technology trends, obsolescence risks and supplier roadmaps.

This is how you'll win us over

• Experience & Skills
  • You hold a degree in Electrical Engineering, Eletronics, or a comparable technical discipline. You have extensive experience in semiconductors, integrated circuits or electronic components as well as supplier quality management, commodity engineering, or strategic supplier management in a global environment.
  • You possess strong knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing technologies and processes, supplier qualification methodologies, quality methods, and risk management tools.
  • You are recognized as a technical expert who can influence stakeholders across functions and regions.
  • You have proven experience in component standardization, portfolio optimization, and technology lifecycle management within complex global product environments.
• Ways of working
  • You combine strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities. You are able to drive global initiatives, build collaborative relationships, and achieve sustainable business improvements without direct authority.
  • You have a high willingness to travel internationally to support global stakeholders and supplier development activities on-site.
• Languages: You are fluent in English, written and spoken, and confidently operate in a global and cross-functional environment.

You are much more than your qualifications, and we believe in the potential of every single candidate. We look forward to getting to know you!

Our Commitment to Equity and Inclusion in our Diverse Global Workforce. At Siemens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values your skills and provides equitable opportunities to progress. For us, competitiveness goes hand in hand with diverse teams and a shared sense of belonging. Our technology is powered by innovation, fueled by the diverse thinking and the unique merits of our people. We welcome you to bring your authentic self and transform the everyday, for everyone, together with us.

As an equal opportunity employer , we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from persons with disabilities. In the case of equal qualifications, severely disabled applicants and applicants with equivalent status will be given preference.

About us

Siemens Digital Industries Automation (DI AUT) is one of the world's leading providers of industrial automation. Our innovative automation portfolio enables companies of all sizes in both the process and discrete manufacturing industries to accelerate their automation and thus their digital transformation across the entire value chain. This allows our customers to increase productivity and flexibility and become future-ready through technologies such as software-defined systems and artificial intelligence. Siemens Xcelerator - the open digital business platform - helps to implement this more easily, quickly, and at scale. Together with partners and a broad ecosystem, Siemens supports its customers on their journey toward becoming a Digital Enterprise.

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