Robert, how would you describe yourself?
  • Knowledge Sharer
  • Trusted Advisor
  • DIY Maker
  • Problem Solver
  • Child Tamer
What is special about working at Infineon?

Open, friendly, and inspiring atmosphere with less pronounced hierarchy.

What are your main tasks?

Bringing together the requirements of the customer, the needs of the business, and the technical capabilities of technologies used.

What are the results of your work?

A fully functional, reliable, and affordable microcontroller for the challenging automotive market. On the picture you see an AURIX™ 2nd generation automotive microcontroller die in 40 nm embedded flash technology with about 820 million transistors on the chip. We started development ten years ago and now it’s in volume ramp production; several million are in the field – helping to make cars safer, more energy efficient, and more secure. This success is partly the result of “my” work, but also of course the efforts of a huge project team of concept experts, designers, layouters, technology engineers, project leads, and many more – all of whom cooperated to get the chip running.

What are your job highlights?

After many hard years of development work on a product, realizing that it is helping to make our mobility world more safe, secure, and energy efficient.

What are your biggest challenges?

Bringing together the requirements of the customer, the technical constraints, and the business needs in order to find the overall optimum.

What are the failures that you most cherish?

Identified issues with honest lessons learned, where there is a common agreement about what went wrong and why. That’s the only way to avoid recurrence and make sure that the whole organization is developing in the right direction.