WPM C4 Quality and Reliability Engineer

Intel Corporation; Oregon; On-site; USD 89,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock bonuses

Health benefits

Vacation

Job summary

Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon, is seeking a Quality and Reliability Engineer (QRE) to join FQRL (Foundry Quality, Reliability, and Labs). This on-site role requires living in Oregon and involves evening meetings and cross-functional collaboration across fab modules, process integration, and global teams.

The ideal candidate will lead customer quality initiatives, perform data-driven risk analyses, and drive improvements in reliability while supporting new technology certifications.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Science, or related discipline.
• At least 6 months of experience in manufacturing processes, semiconductor fabrication, and quality assessment.
• Familiar with excursion management, reliability fundamentals, or problem-solving techniques.
• Proficiency in statistical analysis techniques and tools, such as JMP or Minitab.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer quality issues on internal and external products.
• Extract and analyze data to support risk assessment of suspect/non-conforming material.
• Support and engage with downstream partners to manage excursions and investigations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive improvements in quality and reliability performance.
• Ensure metrics and MRB inventory targets are met for end-of-line holds.
• Identify and drive activities to improve detection and containment of discrepant material.
• Support certification and ramp of new technologies from on-site and off-site teams.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support as part of an engineering rotation for line issues.

Skills

Strong communication

Collaboration

Manufacturing experience

Growth mindset

Technical decision making

Organizational & planning

Status updates to leadership

Team building & influencing

Work under pressure

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering or Science

Tools

JMP

Minitab

Job description

Job Details

As a world's leading chip manufacturer, Intel strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art. From semiconductor process development and manufacturing, through yield improvement to final test and optimization, and lastly advanced die prep and packaging. Employees in Intel Foundry are part of a worldwide network of manufacturing, advanced packaging, and assembly/test facilities. As a Quality and Reliability Engineer (QRE), you will be part of FQRL (Foundry Quality, Reliability, and Labs), Intel's Quality and Reliability organization. We are strong believers in partnership, collaboration and teamwork. You will routinely work with the fab module engineers, process integration[RB1.1] and worldwide employees both internal and external to Intel. This is an on-site role that requires living in Oregon. This role requires evening meetings most work days. The Wafer Packaging Manufacturing (WPM) organization owns a crucial part of semiconductor wafer processing, testing, and die-to-wafer assembly. In addition to traditional product types, we drive Intel's advanced packaging strategy - bringing compelling capabilities to market and enabling large-scale AI computing. C4 (bumping) QREs cover several critical process segments[RB2.1] such as interposer, micro-logical, and package side bumping in the WPM organization.

Your Key Deliverables

• Manage customer quality (both internal and external) issues on products.
• Extract and Analyze data to support risk assessment of suspect/non-conforming material.
• Support and engage with down-stream partners to manage excursions, down-stream investigations, and respond to issues.
• Partnering with other organizations to proactively drive improvements in quality and reliability performance.
• Ensure that the metrics and goals for the end-of-line-hold operations are met, as well as MRB (Material Review Board) [RB3.1]inventory.
• Identify and drive activities and projects to improve detection and containment of potentially discrepant or unreliable material.
• Support Certification and Ramp of new technologies from on-site and off-site development teams.
• 24x7 on-call response (as part of an engineering rotation) to respond to urgent line issues, excursions, or to support task force-level projects.

Ideal Candidate Behavioral Traits

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Experience in manufacturing environments or familiarity with high-volume production processes.
• A growth mindset and active interest in continuous learning and development.
• Make technical decisions and provide technical direction.
• Evidence of organizational and planning skills for engineering projects.
• Demonstrate effective communication up and down the organization, including skills to communicate technical issues and status to factory and program leadership.
• Effectively work in a highly networked, cross organization role.
• Exhibit strong team building and influencing skills.
• Work under pressure, and in an ever-changing and dynamic environment.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a specialized field such as Engineering, Science, or a related discipline
• At least 6 months of experience in the following:
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, semiconductor fabrication, and quality assessment methodologies.
• Familiar with excursion management, reliability fundamentals, or problem-solving techniques.
• Proficiency in statistical analysis techniques and tools, such as JMP or Minitab.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Engineering or Science, with semiconductor foundry experience.
• Ability to write automation scripts to improve efficiency of data extraction and analysis.
• Proven ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and represent quality functions in engineering forums.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a proactive approach to driving process optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage change control processes and drive continuous improvement programs
• Familiarity with product and process reliability principles and methods.
• Knowledge of quality control systems and methodologies.

Job Type

College Grad Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America) Primary Location: US, Oregon, Hillsboro Additional Locations:

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.

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.

Annual Salary Range

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $89,010.00-125,660.00 USD

Work Model for this Role

This role will require an on-site presence.

Additional Information

• Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.
• Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. We do not charge any fees during our hiring process. Candidates should never be required to pay recruitment fees, medical examination fees, or any other charges as a condition of employment. If you are asked to pay any fees during our hiring process, please report this immediately to your recruiter.
• Intel’s official careers website.