Quality And Reliability Engineer - Arizona, Phoenix, United States
$120,860 - $170,630 USD yearly
Originally posted 9 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves ensuring manufacturing ramps transition to high-volume production while maintaining product quality and reliability standards. You will evaluate materials, processes, and testing mechanisms, and implement improvements.
What you'll do
- Evaluate and qualify manufacturing ramps and processes for quality and reliability standards compliance.
- Develop systems for early detection and containment of manufacturing excursions and conduct risk assessments.
- Drive continuous process improvements and proactive quality programs in factories.
- Conduct quality assessments, audits, and analyze reliability data to identify improvement opportunities.
- Collaborate with product development teams to make recommendations for system, process, and product reliability enhancements.
- Manage excursion containment, change control, and supplier audits, driving supplier continuous improvement initiatives.
- Respond to customer-reported issues by providing engineering solutions.
- Extract insights from data using statistical techniques and machine learning to evaluate product and system compliance.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Material Engineering, other engineering, Physics or STEM related fields with 3+ years of experience OR Masters or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Material Engineering, other engineering, Physics or STEM related fields with 1+ years' experience.
- Proficiency in statistical process control, excursion management processes, and manufacturing quality.
- Knowledge of Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS), device physics, and semiconductor processing techniques, Statistical Process Control (SPC).
- Experience with Device/semiconductor physics and electrical characterization techniques in wafer fabrication.
- Data extraction and analysis skills.
- Experience in Quality & Reliability (QnR), Process, device, and product engineering.
- Understanding of Design of Experiments (DOE) principles and structured problem solving.
Nice to have
- Microprocessor architecture.
- Data extraction and analysis skills (JMP, Crystal Ball, ILM, REL PCS, SQL, JSL Scripting).
- Experience in process startup, process certification, or reliability risk assessments related to the device front end process or back end reliability.
- Hands-on IC fabrication experience.
Skills: quality and reliability, manufacturing ramps, statistical process control, excursion management, CMOS
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 58-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
425
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$158k
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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 (425 roles · 70 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 17 | 425 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 174 | 9747 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 37 d | 58 d (−21 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $158k |
Skills observed across this category: quality and reliability, manufacturing ramps, statistical process control, excursion management, CMOS
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 74 open roles · median 150 d
- Infineon Technologies · 31 open roles · median 45 d
- Analog Devices · 20 open roles · median 50 d
- onsemi · 19 open roles · median 64 d
- Renesas Electronics · 19 open roles · median 53 d
- Intel Corporation (this employer) · 18 open roles · median 34 d
How we counted: 425 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 70 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.