Silicon Design Rule Owner (DRO) - Foundry Technology Development

Intel Corporation • Hillsboro, OR

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Intel Foundry Technology Development is seeking a Silicon Design Rule Owner (DRO) to join the Advanced Design and Customer Enabling team, supporting a broad range of product families. The Design Rule Owner serves as the technical authority responsible for defining, validating, governing, and maintaining assembly-related design rules that ensure robust chip packaging, assembly yield, reliability, and manufacturability. This role bridges silicon design, package design, assembly process technology, OSAT and factory partners, and reliability engineering. The DRO collaborates closely with product design and architecture, fabrication, assembly platform pathfinding and development, and customer enabling teams to define and drive design rules that enable competitive products while meeting cost and manufacturability requirements. A key aspect of this role is engagement from the earliest stages of silicon and package technology and product concept through product design tape-out. The DRO works across multiple product families, packaging technologies, and silicon nodes to deliver a consistent design rule strategy and a forward-looking, industry-leading design rule roadmap. This position involves extensive cross-disciplinary and cross-organizational collaboration, direct interaction with product designers, and engagement with external suppliers and customers. The DRO also partners with EDA teams to implement design rule checks and verification flows, reduce false violations, and support rule waivers and exceptions. The role includes maintaining authoritative design rule documentation, change logs, and revision history, and enforcing consistency across product designs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical/mechanical/chemical/materials Science engineering or related field with 6+ years of experience -OR- a Master's degree in electrical/mechanical/chemical/materials Science engineering or related field with 4+ years of experience - OR- a PhD in electrical/mechanical/chemical/materials Science engineering or related field with 2+ years.
• Related years of experience should include: -Design rule verification in EDA tools

Nice To Haves

• Silicon and package assembly design or design rule development
• Semiconductor assembly and packaging process knowledge
• Design rule validation, verification flows, and EDA tool integration
• Collaboration across silicon design, packaging, fab, assembly, and reliability teams

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level