TSMC Arizona - Yield Excellence Engineer
About the role
The Yield Excellence Engineer in the Yield Enhancement Department focuses on defect reduction, yield improvement, and inspection methodology excellence. The role supports manufacturing operations encompassing N5 and N4 process technologies.
What you'll do
- Identify potential yield-limiting defect sources and define defect reduction roadmaps for assigned programs and related modules.
- Use statistical process control principles to sustain production line health and prevent defect-induced excursion events.
- Work with module engineers to identify and eliminate process and station defect sources through experiment design, execution, and data analysis.
- Install, qualify, and sustain inline inspection and reviewing equipment to expand inline defect detection capabilities.
- Collaborate with integration and process organization partners to evaluate and qualify mitigation and continuous improvement solutions.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Electrical Engineering or Material Science.
- Experience with bright field, darkfield, and Ebeam defect metrology tool usage.
- Experience in inline usage of defect metrology tools to monitor and detect integrated and process tool shifts in a high-volume 24/7 manufacturing fab.
- Legal eligibility to work in the United States.
Skills: defect reduction, yield improvement, metrology, bright field, darkfield, Ebeam
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First seen in our index 13 days ago, well below the 58-day median for Yield Engineering roles.
Yield Engineering · Yield Engineering
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Open roles in category
219
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Median days since first seen
58 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$135k
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| Metric | TSMC Arizona | All employers we track in this specialty (219 roles · 36 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 219 |
| Median days since first seen | 182 d | 58 d (−124 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $135k |
Skills observed across this category: defect reduction, yield improvement, metrology, bright field, darkfield, Ebeam
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 106 open roles · median 76 d
- Intel Corporation · 11 open roles · median 30 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 29 d
- Skyworks · 9 open roles · median 52 d
- GlobalFoundries · 6 open roles · median 107 d
- Qualcomm · 6 open roles · median 111 d
How we counted: 219 open Yield Engineering (Yield Engineering) roles from 36 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 13 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. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.