Section Manager - Process Development (SM1)

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2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Hardware • Semiconductor • Manufacturing
The Role
Leads a cross-functional semiconductor process engineering team developing advanced analog technology. Oversees process optimization across major wafer-fabrication modules, process integration, root-cause resolution, technology transfer, and concurrent development programs. Manages workforce planning, performance, succession, and talent development while coordinating with integration, device, equipment, manufacturing, and operations teams. Communicates program status, risks, and technology readiness to site and executive leadership.
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Why Texas Instruments

At Texas Instruments, we design and manufacture semiconductors that power electronics across the world. Our 300mm manufacturing facilities represent some of the most advanced wafer fabrication environments in the industry. We invest in our people, our technology, and our manufacturing capabilities and we are looking for leaders who want to make a meaningful impact at scale.

About the Role

Texas Instruments is seeking a technically strong and highly motivated Section Manager - Process Development to lead a cross-functional team of experienced process engineers developing TI's most advanced analog semiconductor technologies. In this leadership role, you will drive innovative process development across all process modules, manage concurrent technology programs, and deliver solutions that push the boundaries of analog technology performance.

This is a high-visibility position requiring both deep technical expertise and strong people leadership. You will partner closely with integration, device, design, and manufacturing teams to define and execute process development strategies delivering results on aggressive timelines in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

What You'll Do

Team Leadership & Organization Management

  • Lead, develop, and grow a cross-functional team of experienced process engineers spanning all major process modules
  • Drive workforce planning, performance management, succession planning, and talent development within the section
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement

Advanced Process Development

  • Lead process development and optimization across all process modules including Photolithography, CVD, PVD, Diffusion, Plasma Etch, CMP, and other relevant unit processes
  • Define and execute process integration strategies for TI's most advanced analog technology nodes
  • Drive innovative process solutions that meet performance, reliability, and manufacturability requirements
  • Own technical problem-solving and root cause resolution for complex, cross-module process challenges

Program Execution & Timeline Management

  • Enable multiple concurrent technology development programs, balancing resources and priorities to meet aggressive milestones
  • Support program schedules, clearly communicating status, risks, and mitigation plans to site and executive leadership
  • Drive cross-functional execution across process engineering, integration, device engineering, equipment, and operations teams to ensure on-time technology delivery
  • Develop scalable engineering workflows and operational frameworks that improve program velocity and team effectiveness

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Executive Engagement

  • Partner with integration, yield, device, and operations teams to ensure seamless technology transfer and process readiness
  • Provide regular program updates, technology development status, and risk assessments to site leadership
  • Represent the section in cross-site and corporate-level technology forums, benchmarking activities, and best-practice sharing initiatives
Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
  • 5 years of direct engineering team leadership or management experience within the semiconductor industry.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Broad process module experience spanning multiple unit process areas within an advanced wafer fabrication environment
  • Experience leading technology development for analog, mixed-signal, or specialty semiconductor technologies
  • Familiarity with process integration and technology transfer to high-volume manufacturing
  • Track record of delivering new technology nodes or process generations on schedule and to performance specifications
  • Experience in 300mm wafer fabrication environments
  • Experience supporting multi-site or corporate-level technology benchmarking and governance
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration, communication, and project management skills
  • Proven ability to engage and present program and technology updates to site and executive leadership
About Us
Why TI?
  • Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
  • We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
  • Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us. Please find our country-specific benefits here

About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com.

Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.
About the TeamTI does not make recruiting or hiring decisions based on citizenship, immigration status or national origin. However, if TI determines that information access or export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit you from working in this position without first obtaining an export license, TI expressly reserves the right not to seek such a license for you and either offer you a different position that does not require an export license or decline to move forward with your employment.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field
  • At least 5 years of direct engineering team leadership or management experience within the semiconductor industry
  • Broad process module experience spanning multiple unit process areas within an advanced wafer fabrication environment
  • Experience leading technology development for analog, mixed-signal, or specialty semiconductor technologies
  • Familiarity with process integration and technology transfer to high-volume manufacturing
  • Track record of delivering new technology nodes or process generations on schedule and to performance specifications
  • Experience in 300mm wafer fabrication environments
  • Experience supporting multi-site or corporate-level technology benchmarking and governance
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration, communication, and project management skills
  • Ability to engage and present program and technology updates to site and executive leadership

Texas Instruments Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Texas Instruments and has not been reviewed or approved by Texas Instruments.

  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Profit sharing and annual bonuses are portrayed as a meaningful, formula-linked upside that can materially lift total earnings in strong years. An employee stock purchase plan with a discount further reinforces recurring, wealth-building incentives.
  • Retirement Support — A 401(k) match is described as a stable core benefit, with some references to additional legacy employer contributions and even pension-like elements for certain cohorts. This framing positions long-term savings support as a notable part of the overall rewards package.
  • Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is depicted as broadly comprehensive, with preventive care and access to HSA/FSA features cited as value-adds. Company-seeded HSA contributions are repeatedly characterized as an important offset to the plan design for those enrolled.

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The Company
HQ: Dallas, TX
25,059 Employees

What We Do

Texas Instruments develops semiconductor and computer technology for cellular handsets, digital signal processors and analog semiconductors. Texas Instruments has been making progress possible for decades. We are a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells analog and embedded processing chips. Our more than 80,000 products help over 100,000 customers efficiently manage power, accurately sense and transmit data and provide the core control or processing in their designs, going into markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. Our passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology smaller, more efficient, more reliable and more affordable – opening new markets and making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. We think of this as Engineering Progress. It’s what we do and have been doing for decades. Learn more https://news.ti.com/index.cfm

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