Quantum PDK OPC Engineer - Malta, New York, United States of America
$85,000 - $146,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 October 2026 by the employer.
Develop computational lithography solutions for advanced semiconductor technologies.
About the role
The Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) Engineer develops computational lithography solutions that enable robust patterning and manufacturability of advanced semiconductor technologies. This role develops and maintains OPC technology files.
What you'll do
- Develop, qualify, maintain, and optimize OPC technology files, recipes, and computational lithography solutions.
- Develop and evaluate OPC strategies, model-based corrections, and patterning solutions to improve wafer pattern fidelity, process-window performance, manufacturability, and yield.
- Collaborate with design rule, lithography, etch, metrology, modeling, mask, and computational infrastructure engineers to define and implement optimal computational patterning solutions.
- Perform root-cause analysis of printing, patterning, and yield-limiting hotspots using simulation, wafer data, design data, and established computational lithography analysis tools.
- Validate and release OPC solutions through simulation-to-wafer correlation, process-window assessment, hotspot verification, and appropriate quality and change-control methodologies.
- Develop automated analysis, verification, and data-processing workflows that improve OPC development efficiency, coverage, reproducibility, and cycle time.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience in optical proximity correction, computational lithography, semiconductor lithography, or patterning.
- Working knowledge of semiconductor lithography, optical proximity effects, OPC concepts, process-window behavior, pattern fidelity, and semiconductor manufacturing fundamentals.
- Experience with computational lithography, OPC development, lithography simulation, hotspot analysis, or related semiconductor patterning tools and methodologies.
- Ability to analyze complex simulation and wafer data, perform structured root-cause analysis, and translate findings into computational or process improvements.
- Experience with scripting or programming for engineering automation and data analysis, such as Python, Perl, Tcl, or shell scripting.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience developing, qualifying, and maintaining production OPC technology files for advanced semiconductor process technologies.
- Experience with model-based OPC, lithography modeling, computational patterning, process-window optimization, mask data preparation, or design-technology co-optimization.
- Familiarity with computational lithography and OPC platforms and large-scale compute environments.
- Experience correlating computational lithography simulations with wafer metrology and using silicon results to improve OPC models, recipes, or process assumptions.
- Understanding of interactions among lithography, etch, design rules, mask manufacturing, metrology, and yield.
Skills: OPC technology files, computational lithography, wafer pattern fidelity, hotspot analysis, process-window
This role has been open 11 days — well below the 63-day median for Process Engineering roles.
Process Engineering · Lithography Systems
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Open roles in category
47
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Median days open
63 d
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Median salary
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | GlobalFoundries | All employers we track in this specialty (47 roles · 13 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 47 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 350 | 9907 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 38 d | 63 d (−25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: OPC technology files, computational lithography, wafer pattern fidelity, hotspot analysis, process-window
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 26 open roles · median 73 d
- GlobalFoundries (this employer) · 5 open roles · median 38 d
- Coherent Corp · 2 open roles · median 66 d
- SkyWater Technology · 2 open roles · median 53 d
- Skyworks · 2 open roles · median 162 d
- STMicroelectronics · 2 open roles · median 37 d
How we counted: 47 open Process Engineering (Lithography Systems) roles from 13 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 — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.