Director, Automation - Yield Management
$216,400 - $324,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role leads the next phase of automation for yield engineering by building systems, workflows, dashboards, and AI-enabled tools.
What you'll do
- Build and automate governance processes for project planning, intake, prioritization, roadmap tracking, operating reviews, lessons learned, CAPA tracking, decision logs, dashboards, KPIs, and status reporting.
- Define and execute the automation roadmap for yield management, diagnostics, analytics, engineering operations, and reporting.
- Lead the development of robust automation frameworks, data pipelines, dashboards, engineering applications, and AI-enabled decision-support systems.
- Partner with yield, diagnostics, design, DFT, product and test engineering, failure analysis, process technology, IT, EDA vendors, and manufacturing stakeholders to integrate data, tools, and decisions.
- Lead, coach, and develop a distributed automation team, building talent depth in software engineering, data engineering, AI, infrastructure, and semiconductor workflow automation.
- Drive continuous improvement by using automation to reduce manual effort, improve quality, and free senior engineering capacity.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 8+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 7+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 10 years of experience in software engineering, engineering automation, data engineering, semiconductor engineering systems, EDA infrastructure, yield analytics, product engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience in technical leadership or people management with a record of building high-performing engineering teams.
- Experience building or scaling automation platforms, engineering applications, data pipelines, dashboards, or AI-enabled workflows.
- Strong technical foundation in Python or similar languages, database systems, distributed compute, APIs, CI/CD, data modeling, visualization, and maintainable software practices.
- Experience applying machine learning, LLMs, or AI-enabled workflows to engineering productivity, anomaly detection, diagnostics, reporting, or decision support.
- Familiarity with semiconductor yield, diagnostics, test, EDA tools, manufacturing data, product engineering, or hardware debug workflows.
- Experience building teams across sites or functions where shared process, communication, and operating discipline are important to scale execution.
- Demonstrated ability to establish project planning, operating reviews, lessons learned, CAPA tracking, roadmap management, and continuous improvement practices.
Skills: yield management, automation roadmap, data pipelines, AI-enabled decision-support systems, semiconductor workflow automation
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 49-day median for Yield Engineering roles.
Yield Engineering · Yield Engineering
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Open roles in category
211
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Median days open
49 d
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Median salary
$129k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (211 roles · 35 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 211 |
| Median days open | 123 d | 49 d (+74 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $129k |
Skills observed across this category: yield management, automation roadmap, data pipelines, AI-enabled decision-support systems, semiconductor workflow automation
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 108 open roles · median 53 d
- Intel Corporation · 12 open roles · median 11 d
- GlobalFoundries · 10 open roles · median 181 d
- Skyworks · 7 open roles · median 63 d
- onsemi · 6 open roles · median 51 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 6 open roles · median 122 d
How we counted: 211 open Yield Engineering (Yield Engineering) roles from 35 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.