Senior Manager / Deputy Director – Quantum Reliability Engineering About GlobalFoundries GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing design, development, and manufacturing services to customers worldwide. GF Labs and Quantum Technology Solutions (QTS) are focused on enabling next-generation quantum computing technologies through the development of advanced semiconductor platforms spanning Spin Qubit, Ion Trap, Superconducting, Topological, Cryogenic CMOS, Advanced Packaging, and associated manufacturing technologies.
Introduction The Senior Manager / Deputy Director of Quantum Reliability Engineering will lead the Reliability function within Quantum Technology Solutions. This role will build and lead a team responsible for developing reliability strategies, qualification methodologies, failure-analysis approaches, and lifetime assessment capabilities for emerging quantum technologies. The successful candidate will combine deep semiconductor reliability expertise with the ability to develop new methodologies for technologies where traditional CMOS qualification approaches may not be sufficient. The role will partner closely with QTS Product Development, Integration, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Test & Characterization, Design Enablement, Packaging, Manufacturing, and Program Management teams to drive quantum technologies from early development through qualification and manufacturing readiness.
Reliability Strategy & Technical Leadership
- Define and own the overall reliability strategy for the QTS technology portfolio.
- Establish reliability requirements, qualification strategies, methodologies, and technical success criteria for emerging quantum technologies.
- Develop approaches for evaluating device, interconnect, BEOL, packaging, materials, and system-level reliability.
- Determine where established semiconductor reliability methodologies can be leveraged and where quantum-specific approaches must be developed.
- Translate customer use conditions and quantum-system requirements into actionable reliability requirements.
- Develop reliability roadmaps aligned with QTS technology and product roadmaps.
- Provide technical leadership for lifetime prediction, acceleration-model development, degradation-mechanism identification, and reliability risk assessment.
Quantum Technology Qualification
- Lead development of qualification methodologies for quantum technologies spanning Spin Qubit, Ion Trap, Superconducting, Topological, Cryogenic CMOS, Advanced Packaging, and associated manufacturing technologies. These are modalities explicitly included in the current QTS JL9 framework.
- Define qualification vehicles, stress conditions, sampling strategies, reliability monitors, and acceptance criteria appropriate to each technology.
- Develop approaches for assessing reliability under relevant operating environments, including cryogenic operation where applicable.
- Establish qualification plans supporting technology maturation from R&D through production readiness.
- Partner with Integration and Product Development teams to incorporate reliability learning early in technology development.
Reliability Characterization & Failure Analysis
- Establish methodologies to characterize degradation mechanisms and identify reliability-limiting failure modes.
- Lead root-cause investigations for reliability excursions and technology failures.
- Drive correlation of electrical, physical, materials, process, and reliability data.
- Partner with characterization, analytical laboratory, process engineering, and failure-analysis teams to develop robust root-cause and corrective-action methodologies.
- Apply statistical analysis, DOE, physics-of-failure approaches, and acceleration modeling to understand reliability risks and establish lifetime projections.
Technology Development & Manufacturing Readiness
- Integrate reliability requirements and learning into technology-development cycles.
- Partner with Integration, AME, Manufacturing, Packaging, Device, Yield, and Test organizations to drive closure of reliability gaps.
- Define reliability milestones and exit criteria supporting development gates and manufacturing readiness.
- Identify reliability risks early and establish mitigation plans before qualification.
- Balance performance, reliability, yield, manufacturability, scalability, and cost during technology development, consistent with the trade-off framework already used in QTS integration roles.
- Drive reliability learning into process-control strategies and future technology generations.
Customer & Partner Engagement
- Serve as a senior technical interface for reliability discussions with quantum customers, development partners, suppliers, universities, and external research organizations.
- Translate customer reliability requirements into qualification and technology-development plans.
- Support customer technical reviews, qualification reviews, program milestones, and executive-level discussions.
- Develop clear technical assessments of reliability risks, qualification status, and mitigation strategies.
- Support joint-development and externally funded programs requiring reliability deliverables.
Organizational Leadership
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Quantum Reliability Engineering organization.
- Recruit and develop engineers with expertise spanning semiconductor reliability, device physics, materials reliability, packaging reliability, failure analysis, and statistical methods.
- Establish objectives, priorities, technical ownership, and development plans for team members.
- Mentor technical leaders and develop future reliability experts within QTS.
- Establish standardized reliability methodologies, documentation, databases, and best practices across the organization.
- Build a culture of technical rigor, data-driven decision making, collaboration, urgency, and disciplined execution.
Required Qualifications Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) preferred.
Experience
- 10+ years of semiconductor reliability, technology development, product engineering, or related technical-industry experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex semiconductor reliability or qualification programs.
- Experience managing and developing technical engineers and/or technical organizations.
- Experience taking semiconductor technologies from development through qualification and manufacturing readiness.
- Strong understanding of semiconductor device physics, process integration, materials, and failure mechanisms.
- Experience developing qualification plans, reliability test methodologies, acceleration models, and lifetime assessments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical investigations and drive complex problems to closure.
- Experience interacting with senior technical leaders, customers, and external partners.
Technical Knowledge
Strong experience in several of the following:
- Semiconductor reliability engineering
- Device reliability and degradation physics
- CMOS reliability
- BEOL/interconnect reliability
- Materials reliability
- Advanced packaging reliability
- Failure analysis and root-cause methodology
- Accelerated-life testing and lifetime modeling
- Statistical reliability analysis and DOE
- Semiconductor process integration
- Technology qualification
- Cryogenic device characterization
- Quantum-device technologies
Preferred Qualifications
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or related field.
- Deep knowledge of semiconductor physics-of-failure and reliability modeling.
- Experience developing reliability methodologies for new materials or device architectures.
- Experience with cryogenic characterization or reliability testing.
- Familiarity with quantum computing hardware and one or more quantum modalities.
- Experience with heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging.
- Experience working in semiconductor foundry, IDM, or advanced R&D environments.
- Experience leading multi-site or globally distributed technical teams.
- Experience supporting customers, joint development programs, or government-funded technology programs.
Leadership Attributes
- Technical depth – recognized expertise with the ability to challenge assumptions and guide complex reliability decisions.
- Strategic thinking – translates emerging quantum technology requirements into a scalable reliability strategy.
- Execution discipline – drives qualification and technical issues to data-based closure.
- Organizational leadership – builds teams, develops technical talent, and establishes new organizational capabilities.
- Cross-functional influence – aligns Product Development, Integration, AME, Manufacturing, Test, Packaging, and external partners.
- Customer orientation – translates complex reliability results into clear assessments of technology risk and readiness.
Expected Salary Range $143,000.00 - $247,000.00 The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.
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