III-V Epi strengthens epitaxy engineering team
III-V Epi, the UK-based wafer foundry services company, has appointed Saurabh Kumar, a specialist in semiconductor device fabrication, to help meet growing demands for its wafer design, manufacturing, test and characterisation services.
Kumar will strengthen the company’s epitaxial engineering team, increasing resource, expertise and industrial experience.
Most recently, Kumar served as process engineering team lead at Paragraf, Cambridgeshire, where he provided technical leadership and mentoring, established yield engineering and failure analysis frameworks, and led process development and tool commissioning strategies for semiconductor fabrication facilities in their Somersham and Huntingdon sites.
In previous roles, Kumar served as a senior process engineer at the Huawei Ipswich Research Centre, where he was responsible for driving continuous improvement and operational excellence, overseeing yield engineering and failure analysis, developing process strategies, commissioning tools, and implementing statistical process control. Prior to this, he managed Nexperia’s high-volume silicon fabrication facility in Manchester.
Kumar began his career as a research engineer at the University of Sheffield, gaining his initial experience in device fabrication and project management.
Kumar is a skilled semiconductor fabrication engineer with extensive expertise in photolithography, etching, deposition, and packaging. He has experience in process design, new technology introduction, seamless production operations as well as working to compliance regulations for quality, reliability and health & safety.
Kumar has a Masters in Nanoelectronics and Nanomechanics from the University of Sheffield, UK and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Babu Banarsi Das National Institute of Technology, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, India.
