Staff Integration Engineer - Bloomington, MN 55425, United States
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This Staff Integration Engineer role focuses on the fabrication and integration of photonic devices in a semiconductor foundry environment.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize fabrication process flows for wafer level manufacturing of low-loss photonic waveguides.
- Lead or support III-V-on-silicon heterogeneous/hybrid integration efforts.
- Develop, characterize, and integrate high-speed electro-optic modulators into photonic circuits.
- Support integration of components relevant to quantum applications, such as single-photon sources/detectors or cryogenic-compatible photonics.
- Collaborate with process integration teams to troubleshoot yield, optical loss, and reliability issues across the fab flow.
- Develop test and characterization methodologies for waveguide loss, modulator bandwidth, coupling efficiency, and device-level quantum metrics.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Eng, Materials Science, Chemical Eng, Physics, Optical Engineering or related discipline.
- Experience with cleanroom fabrication tools (lithography, etch, deposition, CMP, metrology).
- BS and 5 years, or MS and 3 years, or PhD and 0-3 years of engineering experience in a semiconductor fab or lab environment.
- Basic knowledge of semiconductor fabrication and equipment.
- US Citizenship Required.
Nice to have
- PhD in a related field.
- Research experience in materials used in semiconductor manufacturing.
- Exposure to various aspects of semiconductor manufacturing processes.
- Experience with foundry-scale (200mm/300mm) photonic process design kits (PDKs).
- Hands-on experience with photonic integrated circuit (PIC) fabrication in a cleanroom/fab environment.
- Demonstrated experience with low-loss waveguide fabrication (etch processes, cladding deposition, propagation loss reduction techniques).
- Strong understanding of optical characterization techniques (loss measurement, spectral characterization).
- Experience with III-V integration techniques (wafer bonding, die attach, epitaxial lift-off, or heterogeneous integration).
- Familiarity with high-speed modulator design, fabrication, or characterization.
- Working knowledge of quantum photonics principles as applied to at least one of quantum networking, quantum sensing, or quantum computing.
- Familiarity with cryogenic packaging or testing for quantum hardware.
- Experience with single-photon detectors (SNSPDs, APDs) or photon-pair sources.
- Background in RF/microwave engineering for modulator driver integration.
- Publication record or patents in integrated photonics, quantum optics, or related fields.
- Experience with simulation tools (Lumerical, COMSOL, MEEP, or similar) for waveguide/device design.
- Prior work in a semiconductor fab or foundry environment.
Skills: photonic waveguides, III-V-on-silicon, heterogeneous integration, cleanroom fabrication, process flows, quantum applications
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 58-day median for Process Integration roles.
Process Integration · Process Integration
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Open roles in category
221
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$160k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | SkyWater Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (221 roles · 37 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 221 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 82 | 9525 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 8 d | 58 d (−50 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $160k |
Skills observed across this category: photonic waveguides, III-V-on-silicon, heterogeneous integration, cleanroom fabrication, process flows, quantum applications
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 77 open roles · median 59 d
- GlobalFoundries · 24 open roles · median 93 d
- Intel Corporation · 14 open roles · median 50 d
- Infineon Technologies · 9 open roles · median 43 d
- onsemi · 9 open roles · median 43 d
- Renesas Electronics · 8 open roles · median 56 d
How we counted: 221 open Process Integration (Process Integration) roles from 37 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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 — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.