Intel Foundry Advanced Device Development Engineer

Intel•Hillsboro, OR

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Advanced Device Development Engineer works on the Logic Technology Development team in an advanced semiconductor cleanroom facility. The role involves designing, executing, and analyzing experiments to meet engineering specifications for semiconductor processes and leading scientific research that enables the manufacture of innovative device architectures. The engineer sets advanced device performance targets for Process Design Kit releases and works with Design and Foundry partners to address circuit-level issues. The role also assesses silicon-to-simulation health and readiness for high-volume manufacturing, defines test structures and test programs to validate design rules and extract device parameters, and analyzes electrical-test, yield, and fab data to guide future development.

Requirements

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Material Science, or a scientific field directly related to semiconductors.
At least 6 months of experience in semiconductor materials, fabrication, and device physics, or electrical characterization of semiconductor devices such as transistors or diodes.

Nice To Haves

Experience with advanced transistor device structures and device physics.
Experience with process monitoring.
Experience designing and laying out test structures.
Experience with device and circuit simulation.
Knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE), and engineering analysis tools.
Expertise in database structures, research methods, or analytics packages such as JMP, MATLAB, or Octave.
Expertise in scripting languages such as JSL, Perl, or TCL, or programming languages such as Python, SQL, or C/C++.
Expertise in agentic AI and orchestrated LLM workflows, machine learning, deep learning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge engineering, and dataflow pipeline architectures.

Responsibilities

Design, execute, and analyze experiments to meet process engineering specifications.
Lead scientific research enabling the manufacture of innovative device architectures.
Set advanced device performance targets for Process Design Kit releases.
Interface with Design and Foundry partners to address circuit-level issues.
Assess silicon-to-simulation health and readiness for high-volume manufacturing.
Define test structures and test programs to validate advanced design rules and reliably extract key device parameters.
Use statistics, data mining, and other data analysis techniques to explore electrical-test, yield, and fab data and identify insights that guide future development.