Principal Process Engineer — Advanced Semiconductor Device Development

For over three decades, breakthrough advances in computing and intelligent systems have been driven by innovation at the intersection of physics, materials, manufacturing, and engineering. The next generation of high-performance technologies will require entirely new approaches to semiconductor processing, integration, and scalable device fabrication.

We are looking for a Senior Process Engineer to help develop advanced semiconductor device technologies from early research through process integration and pilot manufacturing. This role combines hands-on cleanroom work, process development, external partner coordination, and deep technical problem solving across complex wafer fabrication flows.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary R&D; teams to enable next-generation device platforms through advanced process engineering and integration.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop and optimize semiconductor wafer fabrication processes across multiple process modules.
• Drive process integration from incoming wafer through fully processed devices.
• Work hands-on in the cleanroom across lithography, dry etch, wet etch, dielectric deposition, implantation, metallization, and wafer handling processes.
• Develop and qualify advanced substrate preparation, thinning, bonding, and backside processing flows.
• Define process characterization strategies including CD control, overlay budgets, metrology, and defect inspection.
• Partner with external vendors and manufacturing partners to support complex multi-site wafer flows.
• Drive DOE learning cycles, root-cause investigations, yield analysis, and process optimization.
• Collaborate with device, characterization, packaging, and reliability teams to correlate process behavior with device performance.
• Build scalable process documentation, travelers, specifications, and process-control methodologies.
• Support transfer of development processes into pilot manufacturing environments.

Function: Engineering
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level