Quality and Reliability Engineer - Arizona, Phoenix, United States
$120,860 - $170,630 USD yearly
Originally posted 24 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves ensuring high-volume manufacturing ramps meet Intel's quality and reliability standards, evaluating materials, processes, and techniques, and conducting quality audits.
What you'll do
- Drive manufacturing ramp qualifications to ensure processes and products meet quality and reliability standards.
- Specify inspection and testing mechanisms to monitor product and production equipment compliance.
- Conduct in-depth quality assessments and audits to identify improvement opportunities.
- Lead initiatives to optimize cost, ramp, and production volume efforts while maintaining quality.
- Collaborate with product engineering forums to recommend design or process improvements for enhanced reliability.
- Analyze reliability monitor data, leveraging statistical and machine learning techniques to identify insights that improve product quality.
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 with 1+ years of experience; Or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Material Engineering, Physics or STEM related fields with related academic or work experience.
- Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS), device physics, and semiconductor processing principles.
- Device/semiconductor physics and electrical characterization techniques.
- Data extraction and analysis skills.
- Design of Experiments (DOE) principles and structured problem solving.
Nice to have
- Skilled in engineering analysis tools and data-driven decision-making for quality improvements.
- Experience in high-volume manufacturing environments, particularly with advanced silicon technologies.
- Knowledge of industry standards related to manufacturing reliability and quality assurance.
- Microprocessor architecture.
- Data extraction and analysis skills (JMP, Crystal Ball, ILM, REL PCS, SQL, JSL Scripting).
- Hands-on IC fabrication.
Skills: quality and reliability standards, manufacturing ramp qualifications, quality assessments, reliability monitor data, semiconductor processing
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 54-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
435
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$159k
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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 (435 roles · 72 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 18 | 435 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 177 | 9525 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 22 d | 54 d (−32 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $159k |
Skills observed across this category: quality and reliability standards, manufacturing ramp qualifications, quality assessments, reliability monitor data, semiconductor processing
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 75 open roles · median 136 d
- Infineon Technologies · 34 open roles · median 33 d
- Analog Devices · 22 open roles · median 43 d
- onsemi · 22 open roles · median 68 d
- Applied Materials · 21 open roles · median 54 d
- Intel Corporation (this employer) · 17 open roles · median 22 d
How we counted: 435 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 72 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 Sept 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.