Process Integration, Yield and Defect Reduction Engineering Manager

Process Integration, Yield, and Defect Reduction Engineering Manager

The New Mexico Silicon Manufacturing Integration team is seeking a highly motivated engineering professional with a strong technical background to grow into a Process Integration, Yield, and Defect Reduction Engineering Manager role. In this position, you will collaborate closely with Advanced Packaging High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) technical and factory operations teams to support the transfer, ramp, and sustaining of advanced packaging solutions while ensuring delivery against foundry customer commitments.

As part of the Manufacturing Integration team, you will drive process integration, yield improvement, and defect reduction initiatives that enable high-quality, high-volume manufacturing of advanced packaging technologies. You will partner across engineering organizations to identify manufacturing challenges, implement data-driven solutions, and develop scalable manufacturing processes that improve product quality, reliability, and yield.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive defect reduction roadmap to improve yield and product quality.
• Design and implement defect scan strategies, quick-turn analyses, and parametric monitoring systems.
• Leverage Win It Inline methodologies to drive continuous process improvement while meeting quality and reliability objectives.
• Lead a team of process integration, yield, and defect reduction engineers in solving complex manufacturing challenges.
• Collaborate with design, materials, product engineering, characterization, process development, and High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) teams to optimize manufacturing performance.
• Develop scalable and cost-effective manufacturing solutions for advanced packaging technologies.
• Build and maintain inline metrics dashboards for critical process modules and manufacturing parameters.

Behavioral Skills

• High level of technical contributions with a proven history of technology development, technical problem solving, and technology transfer through the creation of innovative solutions that demonstrate creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
• Ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries, including Process Engineering, Yield Engineering, and Product Engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence others without formal authority.
• Ability to think and operate independently while effectively managing multiple competing priorities.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant semiconductor manufacturing or advanced packaging experience.
• Demonstrated track record of:
• Technology development and technology transfer.
• Solving complex technical problems through innovative engineering approaches.
• High levels of technical contribution throughout the product development lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of yield analysis and defect reduction methodologies.
• 3+ years of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• 3+ years developing inline monitoring systems and manufacturing dashboards.
• Deep understanding of integrated semiconductor process flows and process interactions.
• Strong knowledge of defect metrology tools and capabilities.

Experienced Hire

Shift 1 (United States of America)

US, New Mexico, Albuquerque

Intel Foundry strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art while delighting our customers -- from delivering cutting-edge silicon process and packaging technology leadership for the AI era, enabling our customers to design leadership products, global manufacturing scale and supply chain, through the continuous yield improvements to advanced packaging all the way to final test and assembly. We ensure our foundry customers' products receive our utmost focus in terms of service, technology enablement and capacity commitments.

Employees in the Foundry Technology Manufacturing are part of a worldwide factory network that designs, develops, manufactures, and assembly/test packages the compute devices to improve the lives of every person on Earth.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and…