LTD Advanced Device Development Engineer - Oregon, Hillsboro, United States
$136,900 - $269,150 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 October 2026 by the employer.
This position is in the Logic Technology Development team working in a semiconductor cleanroom facility.
About the role
This role involves designing, executing, and analyzing experiments to meet engineering specifications for semiconductor processes. The focus is on leading scientific research to enable the manufacture of innovative device architectures.
What you'll do
- Set advanced device performance targets for Process Design Kit releases. - Interface with Design and Foundry partners to address circuit-level issues. - Assess Silicon-to-Simulation health and readiness for High Volume Manufacturing. - Define robust test structures and test programs to validate advanced design rules and extract key device parameters. - Use Statistics, Data Mining, and other data analysis techniques to collect, explore, and extract insights from Electrical-test, yield, and fab data.
What you'll need
- PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Material Science, or a scientific field directly related to Semiconductor. - 5+ years of experience in Semiconductor materials, fabrication, or device physics. - 5+ years of experience in Electrical characterization of Semiconductor Devices (transistor, diode, etc.).
Nice to have
- Advanced Transistor Device Structures and Device Physics. - Process monitoring Test structures design and layout experience. - Device and circuit simulation. - Statistical Process Control (SPC) or Design of Experiments (DOE) principles and engineering analysis tools. - Expertise in database structures, research methods, analytics packages (JMP, MATLAB, Octave), scripting languages (JSL, Perl, TCL), or programming languages (Python, SQL, C/C++). - Expertise in agentic AI, orchestrated LLM workflows, machine learning, deep learning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge engineering, and dataflow pipeline architectures.
Skills: device architectures, device performance targets, electrical characterization, device physics, silicon-to-simulation
This role has been open 14 days — well below the 56-day median for Device Engineering roles.
Device Engineering · Device Physics
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Open roles in category
142
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Median days open
56 d
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Median salary
$164k
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| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (142 roles · 36 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 142 |
| Median days open | 20 d | 56 d (−36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $164k |
Skills observed across this category: device architectures, device performance targets, electrical characterization, device physics, silicon-to-simulation
Who's hiring in this category
- GlobalFoundries · 24 open roles · median 62 d
- Micron Technology · 20 open roles · median 110 d
- Intel Corporation (this employer) · 10 open roles · median 19 d
- Renesas Electronics · 9 open roles · median 30 d
- Infineon Technologies · 8 open roles · median 27 d
- STMicroelectronics · 8 open roles · median 51 d
How we counted: 142 open Device Engineering (Device Physics) roles from 36 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.