FULL_TIME
5-10
Foundry Operation Principal Engineer
4/26/2026
Coordinate wafer manufacturing activities with third-party foundries to ensure capacity, quality, and yield targets are met. Manage project timelines, product transfers, and process qualifications while serving as the primary interface between NXP and external foundry partners.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
About The Company
We anticipate tomorrow’s needs—navigating a changing world by bringing together technology's brightest minds to build game-changing solutions that propel us forward.
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) is the trusted partner for innovative solutions in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communications infrastructure markets. NXP's "Brighter Together" approach combines leading-edge technology with pioneering people to develop system solutions that make the connected world better, safer, and more secure. The company has operations in more than 30 countries and posted revenue of $12.61 billion in 2024. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
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Commitment At NXP.
We recognize NXP is a powerful change agent as we continue to deliver innovative solutions that advance a more sustainable future. We remain steadfast in our commitment to sustainability and making measurable year-on-year progress. Also, we aim to create an inclusive work environment and we will not tolerate racism, discrimination or harassment of any kind. We have programs in place focused on diversity, inclusion and equality.
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About the Role
Operations 3rd Party Foundries :
- Co-ordinate all Wafer Manufacturing related activities.
- Ensure available capacity is in place to cover both STP and LTP volumes. Taking into account type split and capacity bottlenecks.
- Drive BBSC for all 3rdParty Foundries for Delivery, through put time, Yield and Quality including follow up on improvement actions
- Monitor, review and manage any process changes/improvements supporting requests both from 3rd Party Foundries to BL’s and from BL’s to 3rd Party Foundries.
- Co-ordinate and drive solutions to customer complaints hold lots and yield/processing excursions related to 3rdParty Foundry ensuring route cause is understood and corrective actions are in place.
Program management 3rdParty Foundries:
- Define time-line, resources, risk-mitigations (technical & non technical)activities to ensure timely and satisfactory completion of the project
- Be responsible for monitoring and controlling the execution of the project as per agreed time-line
- Drive all new product transfers activities in External Foundries with support of NXP project team (Innovation, mother fab, BL) and local project team of External Foundry
- Actively coordinate process qualification, product introduction and qualification
- Stimulate/oversee structural problems solving by use of statistical and quality tools
- Chair and organize process gate meetings
- Report to NXP stakeholders and External Foundries counterparts (PRB/Steering Committee)
- Be the interface between NXP and External Foundries during project execution
- Coordinate safe-launch and volume ramp-up implementation, monitor with support of the local technical team continuous yield & process improvement activities
General areas of responsibility include:
- Relation management and communication interface to all 3rdParty Foundries within their area.
- Drive Quarterly review with 3rdParty Foundries including follow up on actions
- Support Foundry Sourcing group in cost/price negotiations and discussions with both existing and new 3rd Party Foundries
Job Requirement :
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor/Master in Engineering/Material Science/Electronic
- Minimum 7 years working experience preferably in semiconductor fab environment (Process Integration, Device/Yield engineer preferred)
- Well verse in English and Chinese
- Able to work independently and also handle cross functional projects
Preferred Qualifications:
- Six sigma green belt and above, SPC knowledge, Semiconductor Devices and Process knowledge
- Knows statistical tool KLA ACE XP, JMP, SPSS,, Minitab etc
Key Skills
Semiconductor manufacturingProcess integrationYield engineeringProject managementStatistical process controlSix sigmaKLA ACE XPJMPSPSSMinitabSupply chain managementQuality managementStakeholder managementRisk mitigationProcess qualification
Categories
EngineeringManufacturingTechnologyManagement & Leadership
Benefits
Online learning opportunitiesOffline learning opportunities
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