Leads a semiconductor manufacturing engineering section responsible for factory-wide defect metrology, yield improvement, excursion management, process control, and quality systems. Manages engineers and technicians, drives SPC governance and automated containment, presents performance updates to executive leadership, and champions AI-enabled manufacturing and continuous improvement across multiple wafer-fabrication technology nodes.
Why Texas Instruments
At Texas Instruments, we design and manufacture semiconductors that power electronics across the world. Our 300mm manufacturing facilities represent some of the most advanced wafer fabrication environments in the industry. We invest in our people, our technology, and our manufacturing capabilities and we are looking for leaders who want to make a meaningful impact at scale.
About the Role
Texas Instruments is seeking an experienced and results-driven Section Manager, YE/Defect Metrology to join our 300mm semiconductor manufacturing organization. In this leadership role, you will own factory-wide defect metrology strategies, drive yield improvement initiatives, and lead a team of engineers and technicians focused on defectivity reduction, excursion management, and manufacturing process control.
This is a high-visibility position with direct engagement with site leadership. You will play a critical role in shaping the long-term yield roadmap for TI's advanced wafer fabrication environment while building and developing a high-performing engineering team.
What You'll Do
Team Leadership & Organization Management
- Lead, develop, and grow a team of engineers and technicians responsible for factory-wide defect metrology, defectivity reduction, and excursion management
- Drive workforce planning, performance management, succession planning, and talent development within the section
- Foster a culture of operational excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
Yield Enhancement & Defect Metrology
- Define and execute factory-wide defect control strategies across production tools spanning multiple technology nodes
- Lead excursion detection, containment, and root cause resolution in a high-volume 300mm wafer fabrication environment
- Develop and deploy monitoring methodologies that improve excursion detection speed (MTTD) and accelerate operational response (MTTR)
- Expand automated containment capabilities including auto-inhibit and response systems to reduce manufacturing exposure risk
Process Control & Quality Systems
- Oversee Statistical Process Control (SPC) governance and manufacturing quality systems to ensure sustained process stability
- Drive standardization of manufacturing control methodologies across multiple technology platforms
- Maintain compliance with customer, ISO, IATF, and internal quality audit standards
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Executive Engagement
- Partner with process engineering, integration, operations, equipment engineering, and quality teams to coordinate defect control execution
- Provide operational briefings on significant defect events, containment actions, and excursion status to senior and executive site leadership
- Present factory performance reviews, MTTD/MTTR roadmaps, and yield improvement updates to site management
Digital Transformation & Innovation
- Champion AI-enabled manufacturing and data-driven decision-support initiatives focused on defect analysis and engineering productivity
- Lead and contribute to continuous improvement programs that advance factory-wide yield, quality, and operational performance
- Support cross-site benchmarking and best-practice sharing across TI's global manufacturing network
Minimum requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
- 5 years of direct engineering or technical team leadership/management experience within the semiconductor industry.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience managing teams of 8 or more engineers and technicians
- Experience in defectivity reduction, excursion management, and SPC in a high-volume wafer fabrication environment
- Hands-on experience in 300mm wafer fabrication across multiple technology nodes
- Familiarity with MTTD/MTTR frameworks and operational performance metric development
- Experience developing or deploying AI-enabled manufacturing solutions or advanced analytics tools
- Background in ISO, IATF, or equivalent quality management systems and audit compliance
- Track record of measurable yield improvement and scrap avoidance in a high-volume production environment
- Experience supporting multi-site or corporate-level benchmarking and manufacturing governance initiatives
- Proven ability to engage and present to senior and executive leadership on factory performance topics
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and project management skills
Why TI?
- Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
- We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
- Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us. Please find our country-specific benefits here
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com.
Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.
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