TSMC Arizona - Module Equipment Engineer
Focus on semiconductor module equipment across CMP, CVD, PVD, EPI, DIF, WET, ME, Etch, and LIT tool sets.
About the role
As a Module Equipment Engineer at TSMC Arizona, you will focus on improving semiconductor tool performance, uptime, and availability while meeting cycle time requirements. Technical modules include Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP), Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), Epitaxy (EPI), Diffusion (DIF), Wet Clean (WET), Metrology (ME), Etch (Wet Etch and Dry Etch), and Lithography (LIT).
What you'll do
- Maintain equipment performance in a clean room environment for quality production and handle fundamental alarm troubleshooting.
- Install and qualify new tool sets according to scheduled plans and timelines.
- Identify root causes to resolve critical equipment issues, drive defect reduction, and improve tool uptime availability.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for hardware capability enhancement and build monitoring systems to prevent equipment failure or performance loss.
- Manage vendor relationships and liaise across module facilities, vendor engineers, and manufacturing shift personnel.
- Support 24/7 high-volume manufacturing requirements through scheduled night shifts, weekend on-duty rotations, and on-call availability.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics, Mechatronics Engineering, or equivalent fields.
- Academic grounding in numerical analysis, statistics, optics, chemistry, or physics.
- Ability to lift weight consistent with applicable regulations and safety guidelines, including NIOSH lifting recommendations.
- Ability to work in a cleanroom environment, gowning in coveralls, hoods, boots, safety glasses, and gloves, spending significant time on the factory floor working on tools.
- Flexibility to work a Compressed Work Week schedule (4-day on, 3-day off, 3-day on, 4-day off) and participate in night shift rotations (up to 4 months per calendar year).
- Legal authorization to work in the United States.
Nice to have
- Working experience or knowledge in mechanical-related or semiconductor processes.
- At least 1 year of experience in the semiconductor industry as an Equipment Engineer.
More semiconductor jobs: TSMC Arizona jobs · Equipment engineering jobs
First seen in our index 50 days ago, below the 55-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3941
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Median days since first seen
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$118k
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| Metric | TSMC Arizona | All employers we track in this specialty (3941 roles · 87 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 49 | 3941 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 97 | 10337 · 118 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 182 d | 55 d (−127 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $118k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 675 open roles · median 55 d
- Lam Research · 548 open roles · median 44 d
- KLA Corporation · 316 open roles · median 57 d
- Micron Technology · 253 open roles · median 59 d
- ASML · 197 open roles · median 79 d
- ASM International · 165 open roles · median 77 d
How we counted: 3941 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 87 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 12 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, and is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.