Senior Director, Product Yield Enhancement

Job Title

Senior Director, Product Yield Enhancement

Role Summary

Lead Micron's centralized Product Yield Enhancement (PYE) organization, responsible for failure analysis and yield engineering across global labs and product lines. PYE operates 24/7 across five sites in four countries and supports DRAM, NAND, HBM, and emerging memory products.

The role sets yield and failure-analysis strategy, directs global operations and escalation response, and partners with technology, quality, and manufacturing teams to enable product ramp and sustain yield at scale.

Experience Level

Senior-level. The posting specifies a minimum of 20 years of experience in semiconductor failure analysis or yield engineering, with at least 10 years in global leadership roles.

Responsibilities

Accountable for strategic, operational, and people leadership of PYE across all sites.

• Define and execute a multi-year strategic vision for failure analysis and yield engineering aligned to technology roadmap and customer needs.
• Direct 24/7 global PYE operations, standardize methodologies, and maintain strong cycle-time and rapid-response readiness for escalations and qualifications.
• Lead root-cause investigations for customer RMAs, manage formal corrective actions (e.g., 8D), and support new product qualifications.
• Develop and retain leadership bench and technical talent across regions; drive structured career development for managers and individual contributors.
• Own enterprise capability and laboratory roadmap: scale FA capability, standardize execution, and align resources to customer commitments.
• Manage internal budgets and capital expenditure optimization for analytical laboratories.
• Partner with Technology Development, Global Quality, Process Integration, Product Engineering, and Manufacturing to translate findings into process and design improvements.
• Drive adoption of advanced analytics and AI-enabled workflows to accelerate root-cause analysis and improve productivity.

Requirements

Required and preferred qualifications for successful performance in this role.

• Must-have: ~20+ years in semiconductor failure analysis, yield engineering, or closely related disciplines; ~10+ years in global leadership roles; proven experience leading large, distributed teams; strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Nice-to-have: Direct experience with DRAM/NAND/HBM product lines; prior ownership of global laboratory/capex planning; experience deploying analytics or AI in engineering workflows; experience interacting with key customers on escalations.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Micron Technology

Headquarters: Boise, Idaho, USA

Micron Technology is a global leader in memory and storage solutions, dedicated to transforming how the world uses information. The company offers a diverse portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory products under the Micron and Crucial brands. With a commitment to customer focus and technological innovation, Micron drives advancements in artificial intelligence, 5G, and other data-centric applications, empowering users to learn, communicate, and progress.