Principal Foundry Engineer: AI-Driven Tech Strategy

Intel; Hillsboro (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the foundry strategy within the LTD organization, guiding customers through design tape-out to pre-silicon evaluation and into HVM. You will shape roadmaps for yield, performance, and process integration across device types, while driving NPI execution and design enablement initiatives.

The role requires executive leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and deep semiconductor knowledge to accelerate time-to-market for flagship products in the AI era.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Yield / Performance Governance: Establish the overarching yield strategy and governance framework for the foundry product lifecycle, ensuring a seamless transition from design to HVM.
• Roadmap Architecture: Define and steer the long-term yield / performance goals, technology features and roadmaps for foundry customer silicon in alignment with Intel Business Group, Technology Development, Design Technology Platform.
• Systemic Loss Mitigation: Lead high-level strategic initiatives to identify and eliminate systematic and parametric yield detractors, directing cross-functional teams across Process Integration, Device Engineering, and Defect Metrology.
• Predictive Modeling Strategy: Oversee the development of advanced predictive models, using AI/ML, for parametric and defective loss, ensuring projection accuracy for test chips and high-volume products.
• Metric Correlation Frameworks: Define the standards for correlating inline process metrics with end-of-line yield and performance to institutionalize better process control across the organization.
• NPI Strategic Leadership: Direct the execution of New Product Introduction (NPI), overseeing wafer lot progress, skew split strategy, and targeting for flagship customer products.
• Device Performance Strategy: Lead the analysis of device performance and variability for logic, SRAM, and emerging device types to ensure industry-leading specifications.
• Experimental Design Oversight: Architect complex Design of Experiments (DOE) and skew split plans to optimize product health and accelerate time-to-market.
• Technology Compliance: Ensure organizational adherence to critical customer technology metrics, including fab process yield, E-Test (ET), WAT/C, and Cp/Cpk.
• PDK Strategic Vision: Drive the vision for high-quality Process Design Kits (PDKs), ensuring they are optimized for customer success through rigorous validation of metrology and yield data.
• Simulation Standards: Oversee the Sil2Sim (Silicon-to-Simulation) correlation frameworks and layout effect assessments to reduce design iterations.
• Governance and Risk Management: Chair or provide executive guidance to the Waiver Review Board (WRB) to assess and mitigate risks associated with DRC violations.
• IP Ecosystem Development: Lead the strategy for intellectual property (IP) design activities, ensuring robust design rules and seamless mask tape-out execution.

Job description

Intel seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the foundry strategy within the LTD organization, guiding customers through design tape-out to pre-silicon evaluation and into HVM. You will shape roadmaps for yield, performance, and process integration across device types, while driving NPI execution and design enablement initiatives.

The role requires executive leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and deep semiconductor knowledge to accelerate time-to-market for flagship products in the AI era.