Senior RAM Quality Engineer - Boise, ID - ID1, United States
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on defect detection and metrology operations.
About the role
As a Senior RAM Quality Engineer, you will help define and maintain quality standards, monitoring systems, and best-known methods that support defect detection and metrology operations within the Realtime Defect Analysis (RDA) and Metrology team.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain quality control systems, sampling strategies, SPC compliance, and Wafer at Risk (WaR) processes for RDA and Metrology.
- Analyze defect and process data to identify anomalies, drive excursion mitigation, and improve defect detection effectiveness.
- Conduct audits, FMEA activities, and quality assessments while recommending and implementing process improvements.
- Define program health metrics, monitor chronic and repeat defect events, and communicate results to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with global manufacturing sites and cross-functional teams to align best-known methods and support technology transfers.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in RDA, HVM, TD, or a 300mm semiconductor manufacturing environment.
- Minimum 5 years of semiconductor fabrication process experience, including process mechanisms and manufacturing tool sets.
- Experience analyzing manufacturing data, investigating process anomalies, and supporting process control or quality initiatives.
- Strong technical, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with metrology, defect inspection, or RDA-related semiconductor processes.
- Knowledge of data analysis, scripting, coding, or other data manipulation techniques.
- Experience performing root cause analysis, anomaly investigations, and process improvement projects.
- Demonstrated ability to drive change, solve complex technical problems, and collaborate across global teams.
- Experience using AI-assisted analytics to enhance data interpretation, anomaly detection, and yield improvement initiatives.
Skills: quality control, sampling strategies, SPC, defect analysis, excursion mitigation, metrology
This role has been open 47 days — below the 54-day median for Yield Engineering roles.
Yield Engineering · Yield Engineering
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Open roles in category
223
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$136k
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| Metric | Micron Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (223 roles · 36 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 115 | 223 |
| Median days open | 58 d | 54 d (+4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $136k |
Skills observed across this category: quality control, sampling strategies, SPC, defect analysis, excursion mitigation, metrology
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology (this employer) · 115 open roles · median 58 d
- Intel Corporation · 14 open roles · median 17 d
- GlobalFoundries · 9 open roles · median 214 d
- Skyworks · 8 open roles · median 52 d
- STMicroelectronics · 8 open roles · median 37 d
- Infineon Technologies · 5 open roles · median 17 d
How we counted: 223 open Yield Engineering (Yield Engineering) roles from 36 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.