Yeah.. I believe this is to run R embedded in Tibco Spotfire (like Tableau or other BI software). We used to use this to pull and sanitize our data from our data warehouse into dataframes and then create our spotfire templates to run via webplayer.
Won't earn decent money? Have you ever worked for a big semi company? I have and that is simply not true. Niche, maybe... But, they did not skimp high performers regarding wage. Believe it or not, there are plenty of good software positions in semiconductors too..
Oh... I believe it.. Times have changed though. They cut back on travel, corporate crédit cards, etc. We would have no less than 2 cost marathons per year of all day meetings.
They sure don't do that anymore... At least not at any of the Dallas factories. Even patents reap little money. You practically sell your soul when you join the company and all your ideas are theirs.