Silicon Design Rule Owner (DRO) - Foundry Technology Development

Job Details:

Job Description:

Intel Foundry Technology Development is seeking a Silicon Design Rule Owner (DRO) to join the Advanced Design and Customer Enabling team, supporting a broad range of product families.

The Design Rule Owner serves as the technical authority responsible for defining, validating, governing, and maintaining assembly-related design rules that ensure robust chip packaging, assembly yield, reliability, and manufacturability. This role bridges silicon design, package design, assembly process technology, OSAT and factory partners, and reliability engineering.

The DRO collaborates closely with product design and architecture, fabrication, assembly platform pathfinding and development, and customer enabling teams to define and drive design rules that enable competitive products while meeting cost and manufacturability requirements.

A key aspect of this role is engagement from the earliest stages of silicon and package technology and product concept through product design tape-out. The DRO works across multiple product families, packaging technologies, and silicon nodes to deliver a consistent design rule strategy and a forward-looking, industry-leading design rule roadmap.

This position involves extensive cross-disciplinary and cross-organizational collaboration, direct interaction with product designers, and engagement with external suppliers and customers.

The DRO also partners with EDA teams to implement design rule checks and verification flows, reduce false violations, and support rule waivers and exceptions. The role includes maintaining authoritative design rule documentation, change logs, and revision history, and enforcing consistency across product designs.

Key Skills:

• Silicon and package assembly design rule definition and governance

• Semiconductor assembly and packaging process knowledge

• Design rule validation, verification flows, and EDA tool integration

• Data analysis and technical problem solving

• Collaboration across silicon design, packaging, fab, assembly, and reliability teams

• Management of design rule waivers, exceptions, and false violations

• Authoring and maintaining technical documentation (DRMs, change logs, revisions)

• Clear technical communication and stakeholder alignment

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, early-technology environments

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical/mechanical/chemical/materials Science engineering or related field with 6+ years of experience

• -OR- a Master's degree in electrical/mechanical/chemical/materials Science engineering or related field with 4+ years of experience

• - OR- a PhD in electrical/mechanical/chemical/materials Science engineering or related field with 2+ years.

• Related years of experience should include:

-Design rule verification in EDA tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Silicon and package assembly design or design rule development

• Semiconductor assembly and packaging process knowledge

• Design rule validation, verification flows, and EDA tool integration

• Collaboration across silicon design, packaging, fab, assembly, and reliability teams

Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and or schoolwork/classes/research.

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:

US, Arizona, Phoenix

Additional Locations:

US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Business group:

Intel Foundry strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art while delighting our customers -- from delivering cutting-edge silicon process and packaging technology leadership for the AI era, enabling our customers to design leadership products, global manufacturing scale and supply chain, through the continuous yield improvements to advanced packaging all the way to final test and assembly. We ensure our foundry customers' products receive our utmost focus in terms of service, technology enablement and capacity commitments. Employees in the Foundry Technology Manufacturing are part of a worldwide factory network that designs, develops, manufactures, and assembly/test packages the compute devices to improve the lives of every person on Earth.

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel.

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $122,440.00-232,190.00 USD 

The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your preferred location during the hiring process. 

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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