Senior Photolithography Equipment Technician
About the role
This position is responsible for maintaining photolithography equipment performance, completing preventive maintenance, troubleshooting equipment issues, and supporting production priorities within a semiconductor wafer fabrication cleanroom. Equipment supported includes steppers, mask aligners, coaters, developers, wet benches, spin-rinse dryers, metrology equipment, and microscopes.
What you'll do
- Maintain, repair, and perform corrective and scheduled preventive maintenance on photolithography equipment in the Photo area.
- Troubleshoot wafer handling, alignment, focus, spinning, coating, developing, robotics, and related equipment issues across electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and vacuum systems.
- Operate and support metrology tools, measurement systems, and semi-automated or automated wafer-processing systems.
- Maintain accurate equipment records, maintenance documentation, and work-order information, providing clear written and verbal shift pass-downs.
- Coordinate with Production and Process Engineering to prioritize down tools, minimize downtime, and support SPC, quality control, and process monitoring.
- Ensure strict compliance with cleanroom practices, ESD controls, contamination control, ISO 9000, ISO 14000, and site safety procedures.
What you'll need
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Minimum of 10 years of semiconductor wafer-fab experience.
- Extensive experience maintaining photolithography equipment, including steppers, mask aligners, coaters, developers, spin-rinse dryers, wet benches, wafer-handling systems, metrology equipment, and microscopes.
- Direct experience troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, vacuum, and computer-controlled systems.
- Demonstrated knowledge of cleanroom practices, ESD controls, contamination control, SPC, and quality systems.
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and work 12-hour shifts in a cleanroom environment wearing full cleanroom garments and PPE.
Nice to have
- Technical education or certification.
- Experience with semiconductor chemicals and chemical-handling procedures.
- Experience with wafer-level and die-level handling.
- Knowledge of machining, construction, or electrical systems.
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 55-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3882
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Median days open
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$125k
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| Metric | Coherent Corp | All employers we track in this specialty (3882 roles · 87 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 51 | 3882 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 152 | 10099 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 57 d | 55 d (+2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $125k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 658 open roles · median 56 d
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How we counted: 3882 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 87 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 4 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.