Quality and Reliability R&D Lab Engineer

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Job Description:

About Intel Foundry

At Intel Foundry, our Technology Development and Manufacturing teams power a worldwide network of cutting edge fabs and assembly/test facilities. To keep pace with an aggressive technology roadmap, we are pushing the limits of transistor and interconnect reliability delivering faster time to data and higher quality insights that directly shape Intel's and our foundry customers' most advanced process technologies.

The Opportunity

Join the Stress Testing and Reliability (STaR) Lab as part of the Foundry Lab Network (FLN), within the broader Foundry Quality, Reliability, and Labs (FQRL) organization. You'll help develop and enable efficient, high-quality reliability testing, with hands-on exposure to reliability characterization of transistors, interconnects, and other devices on today's and tomorrow's technology nodes.

Location: Intel's Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, Oregon—just outside Portland in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, offering an outstanding quality of life alongside world-class engineering challenges.

What You'll Do

As a Quality and Reliability R&D Lab Engineer in Intel's Reliability Labs, you will be at the center of enabling the reliability data collection that underpins our most advanced process technologies. In this role, you will own, develop, and manage a suite of lab tools ensuring they are fully maintained, production ready, and capable of delivering high quality, data.

Core Responsibilities:

• Technical Problem Solving: Drive root cause investigations when issues arise
• Continuous Improvement: Lead improvement projects that enhance data integrity, tool performance, automation, and overall lab efficiency
• Capability Development: Design, develop, and qualify new tools, test methodologies, and workflows for characterizing device reliability
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with lab operations, industrial engineers, module engineers, and external vendors
• Documentation & Transfer: Ensure new processes and methods are robustly developed, documented, and smoothly transferred to operations

Development Focus Areas:

• Design and qualify new reliability stress techniques for transistors,  and interconnects
• Build next-generation reliability stress infrastructure including hardware, software, procedures, and documentation
• Support pathfinding, technology development, and certification milestones for Intel and foundry customers
• Model world-class safety, quality, and operational excellence

The successful candidate must demonstrate the following:

• Proven verbal and written communication skills
• Team player with proven skills to collaborate and influence in heterogenous team
• Proven skills to perform successfully in a fast paced, high pressure team environment

Qualifications:

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

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Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

A minimum of a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering/Physics/related field with 3+ years of experience on electrical characterization of electronic materials and devices.

In addition, you must have 3+ years of experience in the following:

• Experience in semiconductor electrical characterization, device testing, and troubleshooting using parametric analyzers, oscilloscopes, and related equipment
• Leadership experience in technical organizations
• Project management skills
• Statistics with practical experience using JMP
• Experience applying statistical analysis techniques to experimental data; proficiency with JMP or equivalent
• Experience with hardware automation, preferably using LabVIEW, TestStand, or Python

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• Previous related work experience in a semiconductor foundry preferred
• Experience of work and external vendors will be an advantage

• Experience leading technical teams, influencing stakeholders, and managing resources and timelines in a matrixed environment

• Familiarity with semiconductor device fabrication processes and packaging process flows
• Delivering results in time-critical technical projects involving innovation and strategic planning
• Problem-solving techniques and fundamental engineering concepts to create novel, efficient solutions

Why Join Us?

This is a highly visible, technically challenging role where your work will directly influence the reliability, performance, and time-to-market of current and future Intel process technologies. You'll be part of a dedicated team advancing the reliability stress capabilities needed to qualify both Intel's internal products and external foundry customers' technologies.

          

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:

US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Additional Locations:

Business group:

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.

Posting Statement:

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.

Position of Trust

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Benefits

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 vacation. Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel.

 

 

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $133,800.00-188,890.00 USD

 

 

The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

 

 

Work Model for this Role

This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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