Senior Process Engineer - Lithography #5427Senior Process Engineer - Lithography #5427 - USA-Arizona, United States
Originally posted 2 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Conduct wafer fabrication photolithography, including new process development, integration, and process improvement to achieve precision control at atomic levels. The role supports manufacturing involving N4, N3, and N2 process technologies.
What you'll do
- Apply statistical process control methods to establish and sustain a robust manufacturing process. - Supervise the installation and maintenance of manufacturing equipment to expand capacity with punctuation and quality. - Serve as a lead point of contact with equipment and material suppliers and partners to identify technology gaps and deficiencies. - Devise, evaluate, and qualify mitigation and continuous improvement solutions. - Lead the design and execution of experiments, interpreting and extracting results from complex data sets to optimize the manufacturing process.
What you'll need
- Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a related field with 1 year of engineering experience; or a Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in the same fields with 3 years of engineering experience. - 1 year of experience in at least 2 of: Design of Experiment (DOE); semiconductor fabrication; statistical process control; or statistical methods for modeling multivariate data sets. - 1 year of experience in at least 1 metrology technique: Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM); Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM); Critical Dimension SEM (CD-SEM); Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS); Focused Ion Beam (FIB); Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM); X-ray Diffraction (XRD); Emission Spectroscopy; Raman Spectroscopy; Spectroscopic Ellipsometry; Quartz PCI; or Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR). - 1 year of experience in at least 5 photolithography tools or processes: N4 and N5 IC manufacturing process; DUV Photolithography 193nm and 248nm (ASML Twinscan Scanners); 193nm immersion multiple patterning processes including litho-etch-litho-etch (LELE) and self-aligned double patterning (SADP); JMP; ASML Yield Star; Overlay modeling, alignment, optics and focus control for semiconductor lithography; Defect Source Investigation; 6-Sigma FAB EHS; or Photoresists. - 1 year of experience in at least 2 scanner advanced control features: CD (critical dimension) APC; DOMA (Dose mapper); GridMa (Grid mapper); ProVision; Agile (AirGauge Improved LEveling); cASCAL (computational Application Specific (lens heating) CALibration); TopRC (TOP Reticle Control); FlexRay: unlimited flexibility and control to shrink; or Flexwave. - Willingness and ability to work on-site at the Phoenix, Arizona facility.
This role has been open 144 days — well above the 54-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3894
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$126k
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| Metric | TSMC Arizona | All employers we track in this specialty (3894 roles · 84 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 42 | 3894 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 92 | 10079 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 162 d | 54 d (+108 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 637 open roles · median 54 d
- Lam Research · 571 open roles · median 39 d
- KLA Corporation · 288 open roles · median 66 d
- Micron Technology · 278 open roles · median 47 d
- ASML · 186 open roles · median 74 d
- ASM International · 156 open roles · median 82 d
How we counted: 3894 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 84 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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.