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 an experienced and results-driven Section Manager, YE/Defect Metrology to join our 300mm semiconductor manufacturing organization. In this leadership role, you will own factory-wide defect metrology strategies, drive yield improvement initiatives, and lead a team of engineers and technicians focused on defectivity reduction, excursion management, and manufacturing process control.
This is a high-visibility position with direct engagement with site leadership. You will play a critical role in shaping the long-term yield roadmap for TI's advanced wafer fabrication environment while building and developing a high-performing engineering team.
What You'll Do
Team Leadership & Organization Management
- Lead, develop, and grow a team of engineers and technicians responsible for factory-wide defect metrology, defectivity reduction, and excursion management
- Drive workforce planning, performance management, succession planning, and talent development within the section
- Foster a culture of operational excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
Yield Enhancement & Defect Metrology
- 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
- Develop and deploy monitoring methodologies that improve excursion detection speed (MTTD) and accelerate operational response (MTTR)
- Expand automated containment capabilities including auto-inhibit and response systems to reduce manufacturing exposure risk
Process Control & Quality Systems
- Oversee Statistical Process Control (SPC) governance and manufacturing quality systems to ensure sustained process stability
- Drive standardization of manufacturing control methodologies across multiple technology platforms
- Maintain compliance with customer, ISO, IATF, and internal quality audit standards
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Executive Engagement
- Partner with process engineering, integration, operations, equipment engineering, and quality teams to coordinate defect control execution
- Provide operational briefings on significant defect events, containment actions, and excursion status to senior and executive site leadership
- Present factory performance reviews, MTTD/MTTR roadmaps, and yield improvement updates to site management
Digital Transformation & Innovation
- Champion AI-enabled manufacturing and data-driven decision-support initiatives focused on defect analysis and engineering productivity
- Lead and contribute to continuous improvement programs that advance factory-wide yield, quality, and operational performance
- Support cross-site benchmarking and best-practice sharing across TI's global manufacturing network
Minimum requirements:
- 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.
Preferred qualifications:
- 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
- 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
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 or technical team leadership or management experience within the semiconductor industry.
- 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.
Texas Instruments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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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.
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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.
Texas Instruments Insights
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
