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Staff Yield Engineer

San Jose, CALIFORNIA, usFull-time2026-11-02 → 2026-11-11

Core

Drive yield improvement, support new product introduction and manufacturing transfers, and provide technical support for foundry manufacturing issues.

Role type

Staff IC yield engineer (semiconductor/foundry)

Builds

Production semiconductor devices for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT markets

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing and yield engineering

Required skills

Semiconductor manufacturing processes, yield engineering, statistical root-cause analysis, data analysis tools (JMP, Spotfire, Exensio/PDF), cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Foundry/outsourced wafer manufacturing experience, NPI and manufacturing transfer, SPC and defect-density analysis, automated data-analysis workflows, AI/ML-assisted analytics

Technologies

JMP, Spotfire, Exensio, PDF

Responsibilities

Monitor and analyze manufacturing yield and defect data; Identify yield-loss mechanisms and improvement opportunities; Partner with foundries to implement yield-improvement actions; Support new product introduction and manufacturing transfer activities; Perform analysis of low-yield events and manufacturing excursions; Develop reusable analysis methods and dashboards; Lead technical interlock meetings on yield and manufacturing capacity

Seniority

Staff, technical leadership & cross-functional collaboration