Section Manager - YE/Defect Metrology (SM1) - United States
Originally posted 2 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Texas Instruments is seeking an experienced Section Manager, YE/Defect Metrology to own factory-wide defect metrology strategies, drive yield improvement initiatives, and lead a team focused on defectivity reduction, excursion management, and manufacturing process control in a 300mm semiconductor manufacturing organization.
What you'll do
- Lead, develop, and grow a team of engineers and technicians responsible for factory-wide defect metrology, defectivity reduction, and excursion management.
- 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.
- Oversee Statistical Process Control (SPC) governance and manufacturing quality systems to ensure sustained process stability.
- Champion AI-enabled manufacturing and data-driven decision-support initiatives focused on defect analysis and engineering productivity.
- Partner with process engineering, integration, operations, equipment engineering, and quality teams to coordinate defect control execution.
What you'll need
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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.
Skills: defect metrology, yield improvement, defectivity reduction, excursion management, Statistical Process Control (SPC), AI-enabled manufacturing
This role has been open 13 days — well below the 53-day median for Yield Engineering roles.
Yield Engineering · Yield Engineering
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Open roles in category
221
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$134k
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| Metric | Texas Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (221 roles · 36 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 221 |
| Median days open | 21 d | 53 d (−32 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $134k |
Skills observed across this category: defect metrology, yield improvement, defectivity reduction, excursion management, Statistical Process Control (SPC), AI-enabled manufacturing
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 114 open roles · median 57 d
- Intel Corporation · 13 open roles · median 15 d
- GlobalFoundries · 9 open roles · median 212 d
- Skyworks · 8 open roles · median 50 d
- STMicroelectronics · 8 open roles · median 35 d
- Qualcomm · 6 open roles · median 129 d
How we counted: 221 open Yield Engineering (Yield Engineering) roles from 36 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 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.