Intel

Intel allows freshly minted engineers to put their money where their mouth is and innovate. For someone who enjoys self-guided work, there is a lot of opportunity to demonstrate excellence and receive meritorious acknowledgement of your contribution. You will have a chance to prove yourself and then some.

The quick turns on a product cycle led to constant long hours for all engineering staff, which frankly never ended. Pagers and after-hours calls were a practical reality of the job. There was remarkably little engagement with the factories until it was time for a tech transfer, which dissociated some of the practical decision-making from the engineering novelty. Also, it appeared there was a relatively high "job shift" for incoming engineers to roles outside of development due to a high rate of early burnout.

It's far more expensive to retrain and recruit talent than it is to describe job functions where people are incentivized to develop within their roles.

Consider rotating manufacturing and development engineering roles with each process revision to ensure CIP efforts are driven back through the process, and "repeat" problems are mitigated—not just documented.