Job Description
We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead strategic and scenario planning for Advanced Packaging Central Planning. This role owns end-to-end scenario development across the Business Planning (BP) horizon and long-range planning horizon, translating product roadmaps, market signals, and technology/ramp constraints into optimized capacity and loading strategies. You will drive capital efficiency by evaluating tradeoffs across cost, capex timing, ramp agility, inventory strategy, and market share/bit growth, and by delivering clear, decision-ready recommendations to senior leadership. Key Responsibilities Lead and govern scenario studies across business plan and long-range horizons, including scenario baselines, assumptions management, and change control to ensure traceability and alignment to business goals. Develop and run scenario optimization to define optimum loading plans that balance output and market share with qualification milestones, ramp readiness, and capacity thresholds. Quantify capital impacts: develop and maintain Cost of Transition (CoT); assess gaps between budget vs. actuals; explain cause–effect relationships driving tooling and capital deltas. Own long-range space and footprint demand planning, translating product/technology roadmaps into expansion pathways (site and tooling mix, infrastructure readiness, and ramp phasing) under uncertainty. Recommend manufacturing strategies to inform senior leadership investment decisions by framing scenario-driven tradeoffs and providing clear guidance on capital allocation and prioritization (capex timing/scale and tooling plans) aligned to long-range business and technology objectives. Partner with Central teams, Manufacturing, Technology Development, Finance, and Product teams to align product roadmaps to capacity and capital plans Communicate scenario insights to executive and cross-functional stakeholders through structured narratives, visualizations, and decision/logic trees, highlighting risks, opportu
