Sr. Principal Manufacturing Engineer - Livermore, CA, United States
$136,200 - $178,815 USD yearly
Originally posted 21 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Sr. Principal Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for defining, optimizing, and sustaining process integration flows across multiple manufacturing modules in a high-volume semiconductor environment. This role leads cross-module problem solving, supports product and process development, and drives improvements in yield, manufacturability, and reliability.
What you'll do
- Develop and refine integrated process flows across multiple modules while ensuring process interactions meet product performance and reliability targets. - Lead investigations into yield loss, defect mechanisms, and process interactions using data analysis and DOE methodologies. - Support integration activities for new product introduction (NPI), pilot builds, process qualification, and ramp to production. - Act as a technical interface across process, equipment, yield, product, and operations teams to resolve cross-module issues and support design for manufacturability (DfM). - Analyze electrical test, inline metrology, and defect data to execute DOEs and apply structured problem-solving methods such as DMAIC and 8D. - Maintain integration documentation, process flows, specifications, and change control processes to ensure process traceability.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 8 years of related experience, Master's degree with 6 years of experience, PhD with 3 years of experience, or equivalent experience. - Experience defining, optimizing, and sustaining process integration flows across multiple manufacturing modules. - Practical experience with Design of Experiments (DOE) and structured problem-solving methodologies including DMAIC and 8D. - Experience with defect analysis, electrical characterization, electrical measurements, and optical metrology. - Background in unit semiconductor manufacturing processes such as photolithography, etching, or electroplating.
Skills: process integration, cross-module, yield loss, DOE, NPI
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 61-day median for Process Integration roles.
Process Integration · Process Integration
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Open roles in category
250
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Median days open
61 d
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Median salary
$152k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | FormFactor | All employers we track in this specialty (250 roles · 40 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 250 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 117 | 10066 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 104 d | 61 d (+43 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: process integration, cross-module, yield loss, DOE, NPI
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 96 open roles · median 63 d
- GlobalFoundries · 33 open roles · median 48 d
- Intel Corporation · 15 open roles · median 26 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 8 open roles · median 89 d
- SkyWater Technology · 8 open roles · median 34 d
- Applied Materials · 7 open roles · median 57 d
How we counted: 250 open Process Integration (Process Integration) roles from 40 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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.