Senior Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer

The Role and Impact

We are seeking a full-time Senior Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer to play a pivotal role in our high-volume fabrication facility. In this position, you will provide tactical and strategic operational support to ensure the successful development and ramp of a high-volume or technology development fabrication facility. Define and drive the development and implementation of manufacturing decision-support tools and methodologies and maintain standards for operation sequences and processes. Analyze key factory metrics and drive improvements while providing direction that will improve overall factory performance. Develop, enhance and troubleshoot factory reporting systems and work with automation groups to develop business systems and processes that monitor factory performance. Your expertise will directly contribute to sustaining production activities, improving manufacturing systems and reports, and delivering high-quality outputs that meet customer and business needs.

Business group

As part of New Mexico's Wafer Packaging Production Department, you will join a collaborative team dedicated to advancing semiconductor manufacturing. The organization focuses on optimizing factory operations and supporting Intel's broader objectives in delivering innovative technologies. Working within this group, you will help shape manufacturing strategies to drive efficiency and support Intel's leadership in the semiconductor industry.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide tactical and strategic operational support for high-volume fab development, ramp, and sustaining activities as a senior production engineer, ensuring manufacturing readiness across the full product lifecycle including New Product Introduction (NPI) builds.

- Define and drive global manufacturing decision-support tools, methodologies, and standards for multiple processes and products, partnering with the Decision Support Team to design and develop linear optimization models that reduce changeovers, optimize output, and improve cycle time.

- Analyze current manufacturing and business processes to identify improvement opportunities, set operations targets, and drive data-driven decisions that optimize output, reduce cost, improve cycle time, and enhance overall factory performance and efficiency.

- Develop, enhance, and troubleshoot factory reporting systems and dashboards to provide real-time visibility into factory health, capacity, and performance metrics.

- Collaborate with the Industrial Engineering department to evaluate and align factory capacity and equipment availability against current and future product demand, proactively surfacing bottlenecks and capacity gaps to ensure 100 percent on-time delivery, customer commitment attainment, and cycle time target achievement.

- Own end-to-end lot-level customer order management within the production line, applying structured foundry prioritization methods to proactively detect delivery risks, drive timely corrective actions, and consistently achieve on-time customer commit attainment ahead of due dates while balancing competing priorities across multiple customer product lines simultaneously.

- Collaborate with global foundry operations, planning teams, and business partners to solve problems impacting factory operations, capacity, and factory health driven by enterprise planning and scheduling systems.

- Drive continuous process improvements by partnering with the production and Industrial Engineering departments to optimize foundry operations, eliminate flow disruptions, and ensure all products move through the line without delays.

- Define and drive requirements for manufacturing automation systems supporting key product roadmaps to deliver 100 percent of sales orders on time.

The ideal candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits:

·       Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to translate complex manufacturing challenges into clear operational actions, manage customer-facing delivery commitments, and influence cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization.

This role requires on-site presence to fulfill essential job responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline with 4+ years of relevant experience; OR
• Master’s degree in one of the above fields or a related engineering discipline with 3+ years of relevant experience; OR
• PhD in one of the above fields or a related engineering discipline with 1+ years of relevant experience.

Relevant experience should include a combination of the following:

• Semiconductor manufacturing, foundry operations, production management, or a related technical environment.
• Cross-functional collaboration with operations, industrial engineering, and production planning teams within a semiconductor fab or foundry environment.

This position is not eligible for Intel Immigration Sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting manufacturing operations, factory analytics, or decision-support systems in a high-volume semiconductor production environment
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex multi-product optimization problems, analyze data, identify root causes using model-based problem solving, and drive corrective actions in a semiconductor manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing customer sales orders and tracking lot-level production in a multi-customer foundry environment, with a proven ability to proactively identify delivery risks and drive corrective actions to meet customer delivery commitments.
• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor foundry operations, high-volume fab manufacturing, or production engineering in a wafer fabrication or advanced packaging environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Factory Physics principles and manufacturing science fundamentals, including variability management, Little's Law, WIP optimization, and capacity modeling, with a proven track record of applying these concepts hands-on to drive measurable improvements in cycle time, output, and factory utilization in a high-volume semiconductor or foundry environment.
• Proven track record of bringing structured foundry methodologies to high-volume manufacturing environments, including lot-level order management, customer commit tracking, WIP prioritization, and multi-customer scheduling in a shared fab environment.
  

Apply today and become an integral part of our mission to lead in semiconductor innovation while driving scalable, world-class manufacturing solutions.

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