Sort/Test Quality & Reliability Engineer (QRE)

About This Role

• Embark with us on a journey of growth and transformation as we create exceptionally engineered technology and bring AI everywhere.
• As a valued team member, your adaptability and attention to detail will contribute to our drive for results and relentless pursuit of quality, ensuring we meet our customers' needs with precision.
• Join us and build on our legacy of innovation and collaboration as we deliver world‑changing technology that improves the life of every person on the planet.
• Life at Intel: https://jobs.intel.com/en/life-at-intel As a Sort/Test Quality & Reliability Engineer, you will lead quality and reliability readiness for tester hardware, test modules, test processes, manufacturing systems, and supplier-developed solutions used in semiconductor development and high-volume manufacturing.
• Drive shift-left risk prevention, qualification rigor, test process certification, and disciplined HVM transfer through cross-functional execution with Test Development, Product Engineering, Manufacturing QnR, ATM, factories, suppliers, and ODM partners.
• Your responsibilities may include but not limited to: Test Process Definition and Certification: Lead pathfinding, test process development, qualification, certification, and HVM ramp across products, architectures, Sort, and back-end test.
• QnR Requirements and Risk Prevention: Define requirements, readiness criteria, acceptance plans, FMEA, and mitigation closure for tester platforms, modules, interface hardware, burn-in, wafer/die sort, metrology, and supplier hardware.
• Qualification Strategy: Lead Installation Qualification, Module Operational Qualification, Measurement System Analysis, HVM and Transfer Qualification, Reliability Validation, Change Qualification, and production release reviews.
• Module Manufacturing Qualification: Ensure test processes achieve quality, yield, miscorrelation, gain, capability, stability, cost, and customer-risk objectives before transfer and during ramp.
• Technology Transfer and Factory Support: Enable successful and timely transfer to ATM factories; provide effective IPG QRE support for engineering, qualification, pilot, and revenue production.
• Methodology Ownership: Own, define, and update Test Process Certification methods, specifications, critical success indicators, qualification templates, and release criteria.
• QMS Deployment: Establish and maintain FMEA, Control Plans, MSA, SPC, OCAP, calibration, traceability, data integrity, change control, work instructions, and audit-ready evidence.
• Excursion and Corrective Action Leadership: Lead MQE, excursion, yield, hardware, and reliability investigations using 8D, 5 Why, fault isolation, DOE, and model-based problem solving; verify corrective action effectiveness and recurrence prevention.
• Analytics and Continuous Improvement: Use statistical analysis and manufacturing data to monitor process health, predict emerging risk, reduce escapes, improve qualification efficiency, and strengthen certification decisions.