Skip to main content
Skyworks

Research Scientist Intern

Skyworks Richardson, United States, 75080, United States Internship 5 hours ago
Packaging & Advanced Integration

$60,320 - $101,920 USD yearly

About the role

This internship role focuses on hands-on development and failure analysis within the High Performance Analog business group.

What you'll do

  • Assist in the hands-on development of semiconductor and heterogeneous microelectronics assembly processes.
  • Perform failure analysis and generate experimental data.
  • Conduct data generation and analysis across assembly projects.
  • Document and present experimental findings and project results to the team and business leaders.

What you'll need

  • Current enrollment in an accredited program seeking a PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Chemistry, or Material Sciences Engineering.
  • Hands-on process development skills.
  • Familiarity or expertise with semiconductor device and wafer-level processes, or electrical/thermal/mechanical design and modeling, or advanced materials.

Nice to have

  • Experience with FIB, SEM, SAM, IR, or XRAY analysis.
  • Experience with statistical data analysis tools such as Spotfire, Minitab, or Excel.

Skills: microelectronics assembly, failure analysis, FIB, SEM, heterogeneous integration

More semiconductor jobs: Packaging engineer jobs

Market context

This role has been open 9 days — well below the 59-day median for Packaging Engineering roles.

Packaging Engineering · Advanced Packaging

Open roles in category
321
Median days open
59 d
Category median salary (all employers)
$167k
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
How Skyworks compares in Packaging Engineering hiring
Metric Skyworks All employers we track in this specialty (321 roles · 65 employers)
Open roles in this specialty 8 321
Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family 153 10057 · 117 employers
Median days open 59 d 59 d (same as this employer)
Median salary (USD postings) — $167k

Skills observed across this category: microelectronics assembly, failure analysis, FIB, SEM, heterogeneous integration

Who's hiring in this category

  • Micron Technology · 42 open roles · median 54 d
  • KLA Corporation · 40 open roles · median 150 d
  • Intel Corporation · 23 open roles · median 30 d
  • Renesas Electronics · 22 open roles · median 25 d
  • Lumilens · 13 open roles · median 93 d
  • Infineon Technologies · 11 open roles · median 49 d

How we counted: 321 open Packaging Engineering (Advanced Packaging) roles from 65 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 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.

Apply now
Richardson, United States, 75080, United States
On-site
Internship
$60,320 - $101,920 USD yearly
5 hours ago

Share this job