Strategic / Development Industrial Engineer (Senior Individual Contributor)

Job Description: The Foundry Capacity Optimization (FCO) and Strategic Planning organization is seeking a visionary, high-impact Grade 10 Strategic / Development Industrial Engineer to lead the next era of operational transformation across our planning and capacity ecosystems. As a senior individual contributor reporting directly to the VP/GM of Foundry Capacity Optimization, you will partner closely with Staff Area Managers (AMs), Principal Engineers, and senior FCSP stakeholders to architect and execute a multi-year digital and operational transformation roadmap. Your charter is clear: radically increase the strategic impact, velocity, and analytical depth of the organization without expanding headcount. You will eliminate manual data manipulation, disparate spreadsheet modeling, and repetitive reconciliation, enabling FCO engineers to focus on solving high-value, complex semiconductor capacity and customer delivery challenges.

1. Transformation Roadmap and Systems Architecture • Define, architect, and deliver the end-to-end Foundry Capacity Optimization (FCO) Digital Transformation Roadmap, aligning long-range planning (LRP), capacity modeling, tool allocation, and operational execution systems. • Translate complex foundry operational workflows into automated, scalable, and resilient enterprise system requirements. • Establish quantifiable efficiency and productivity metrics to track manual labor reduction, cycle-time compression, and decision-velocity improvements across planning cycles. 2. AI, Machine Learning, and Automation Implementation • Spearhead the adoption of modern Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Generative AI technologies to automate complex decision-support pipelines, including automated tool mismatch identification, capacity balancing, and yield/mix scenario modeling. • Partner directly with Foundry Automation, Enterprise IT, software development groups, and specialized third-party technology consultants to rapidly prototype, validate, and deploy production-grade solutions. • Drive the transition from fragmented desktop spreadsheets and static databases to unified, low-latency, automated enterprise planning engines. 3. Data Integration and Elimination of Manual Reconciliation • Eliminate the time engineers spend manually mapping, transforming, stitching, and reconciling disparate fab, demand, and tool datasets. • Partner with data engineering and business intelligence teams to establish a robust single source of truth for fab capacity, equipment lines, capital planning, and customer allocations. • Institutionalize automated exception handling, data anomaly detection, and self-healing data pipelines across critical planning feeds. 4. Industry Benchmarking and External Innovation • Actively benchmark peer semiconductor foundries and adjacent hyper-capital-intensive industries, including advanced aerospace, automotive, display, and energy, for state-of-the-art planning systems, algorithmic optimization, and operational efficiency methodologies. • Evaluate commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms versus proprietary internal builds and develop disciplined business cases, ROI models, and technology roadmaps for executive review. • Bring external best practices into Foundry Capacity Optimization (FCO), fostering a culture of continuous modernization, technological curiosity, and systems thinking. 5. Stakeholder Alignment and Change Leadership • Function as a trusted technical advisor and thought partner to Staff AMs, Principal Engineers, and executive management. • Drive operational change management across diverse engineering disciplines, ensuring seamless adoption of new digital tools, automated interfaces, and standardized workflows. • Mentor and upskill the broader engineering cohort in modern analytical tools, automation scripts, and systems-level problem solving. Required Skills and Experience • Proficiency with