Process Engineering Intern (Semiconductor Fabrication)

Location: Austin, United States; on-site

Compensation: $108,000–$126,000 annualized, paid hourly, plus a housing stipend.

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage hardware startup rebuilding semiconductor fabrication processes and developing the hardware, software, fabs, tools, and components needed to make chips.

What you will do

• Design and run experiments with senior process engineers.
• Use academic papers and technical literature to inform experimental design and iterate on process ideas.
• Learn and operate deposition, etch, lithography, and metrology systems.
• Develop, transfer, and optimize process recipes across platforms for consistency, yield, and throughput.
• Analyze process data, troubleshoot recipe and equipment issues, and document findings.
• Contribute to novel R&D processes and influence semiconductor tool design.

Requirements

• Pursuing a bachelor's degree or higher in engineering.
• Hands-on cleanroom experience with wafer fabrication and metrology tools, including etch, deposition, patterning, AFM, SEM, or thin-film measurement systems.
• Experience developing and optimizing recipes for thin-film deposition, dry etch, or lithography.
• Strong theoretical knowledge of semiconductor devices and fabrication.
• Ability to learn quickly and troubleshoot technical problems.
• Ability to work on-site in Austin and comply with applicable U.S. export controls.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with data processing in Python.
• Mechanical or maintenance experience with fab tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, high-ownership work with autonomy in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Preferred internship commitment of 4–8 months, beginning in January.
• Visa sponsorship available.
• Housing stipend, daily lunches, dinners three times per week, and a stocked office kitchen.
• Weekly learning and development opportunities, commuter benefits, parking, and late-night Uber rides from the office.
• Paid time off including holidays and sick time, medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), life, and disability insurance.