Sr. Staff Foundry Engineer - San Jose, California, United States
Originally posted 1 June 2026 by the employer — open 101 days.
About the role
This role involves optimizing and installing high-voltage process technologies in external semiconductor foundries, ensuring equivalent, well-centered, and controlled results across multiple foundries.
What you'll do
- Optimize and install high-voltage process technologies in external semiconductor foundries.
- Monitor process technologies via statistical analysis of PCM, in-line data, and final test results.
- Analyze and optimize yield of several families of high-voltage smart-power products.
- Establish correlations between product yield, process control monitors, and in-fab SPC data.
- Work with device, packaging, and reliability engineers to establish root cause of failures and plan corrective action.
- Support design & product engineering with scheduling & expediting engineering lots and tape outs.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in EE, Physics, Materials Science, or chemical engineering, with emphasis on semiconductor processing and device physics.
- Minimum 12 years experience in the semiconductor industry, with experience in process engineering, yield optimization or device characterization.
- Experience with monitoring and improving product yields using product test data, process control monitor data, and in-line fab data.
- Experience in reviewing product yield information with product engineers, and in solving reliability problems.
- Familiarity with device measurement techniques for both manual characterization and automated process control monitor data gathering.
- Familiarity with the design of process control monitor test structures.
Nice to have
- Experience in working with external foundries.
- Familiarity with product test and analog circuit design.
- Experience creating or maintaining documentation necessary to maintain foundry agreements and procedures.
Skills: foundry, yield optimization, product test data, process control monitor, device measurement
This role has been open 43 days — well below the 70-day median for Yield Engineering roles.
Yield Engineering · Yield Engineering
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Open roles in category
200
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Median days open
70 d
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Median salary
$134k
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| Metric | Power Integrations | All employers we track in this specialty (200 roles · 33 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 200 |
| Median days open | 43 d | 70 d (−27 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $134k |
Skills observed across this category: foundry, yield optimization, product test data, process control monitor, device measurement
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 117 open roles · median 71 d
- GlobalFoundries · 9 open roles · median 176 d
- Intel Corporation · 8 open roles · median 54 d
- STMicroelectronics · 8 open roles · median 16 d
- Qualcomm · 6 open roles · median 100 d
- Renesas Electronics · 5 open roles · median 65 d
How we counted: 200 open Yield Engineering (Yield Engineering) roles from 33 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.