Model Support and Optimization Engineer - United States
$136,900 - $269,150 USD yearly
Originally posted 8 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role focuses on ensuring Supply Chain Planning model quality and supporting business stakeholders in ensuring timely and quality Planning Solves supporting Business process benchmarks.
What you'll do
- Organize activities across planning roles to ensure input into SC Planning systems are timely and correct within monthly and weekly Business Planning cadences.
- Collaborate with Data Stewards, Operational Process Owners, and IT to ensure model quality and timely solve runs.
- Perform post-solve output analysis and provide go/no-go after POR solve runs for Planning to proceed with business process.
- Troubleshoot model output anomalies and identify fixes or improvements supporting Planning stakeholders.
- Govern factors that impact model behavior and outcomes, including routing set-ups, BOM preferences, inventory strategy, business rules, and Business Parameter CTRL tables.
- Develop and improve framework for assessing model quality and methods to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, data science, operations research, industrial engineering or a related field.
- 3+ years' experience in managing complex SC Planning models in semiconductor manufacturing.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in building and implementing models through the creation of algorithms and running simulations.
- Strong knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing, postponement models, network and routing optimization, cost-to-serve analysis, and SC metrics.
- Skills to tell a story using data, including visualization experience.
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities with a focus on root cause investigations.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of Intel's Product Data Management, Product profiles and Supply Chain Network.
- 3+ years of experience in Blue Yonder ESP, IBP or SCP.
- Working knowledge of SQL for data extraction and manipulations.
- Demand and Supply Planning domain experience.
- Time Series Statistical Techniques, ML Algorithms.
Skills: supply chain planning models, semiconductor manufacturing, network optimization, data insights, model quality
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 53-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2424
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$99k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (2424 roles · 77 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 29 | 2424 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 174 | 9738 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 81 d | 53 d (+28 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $99k |
Skills observed across this category: supply chain planning models, semiconductor manufacturing, network optimization, data insights, model quality
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 384 open roles · median 81 d
- Entegris · 243 open roles · median 31 d
- Applied Materials · 229 open roles · median 39 d
- Lam Research · 104 open roles · median 53 d
- Infineon Technologies · 90 open roles · median 52 d
- ASML · 74 open roles · median 70 d
How we counted: 2424 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 77 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 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 — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.