FabVantage Defect Technologist (Semiconductor)

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States. Full-time onsite role; travel required approximately 10% of the time. Relocation is not available.

Salary: $124,000–$171,000 per year, plus benefits and potential bonus and stock awards.

Company

hirify.global develops materials science, engineering, and manufacturing solutions for semiconductor chips and advanced displays.

What you will do

• Design DefectRx data collection plans and failure-analysis strategies with subject matter experts.
• Review and validate defect data collected by field and manufacturing process engineers, including DES auto-classification results.
• Develop defect troubleshooting trees, analyze incident data, and validate root causes and solutions for legacy and new-product-introduction equipment.
• Build and maintain defect knowledge bases covering symptoms, causes, wafer maps, particle images, elemental compositions, equipment configurations, and service history.
• Create training materials, technical bulletins, case studies, and lessons learned for field deployment and defect reduction.
• Collaborate with business units, service organizations, defect centers of excellence, and field engineering teams on product and service roadmaps.

Requirements

• Semiconductor industry experience with knowledge of equipment in dielectric deposition, etch, or metal deposition.
• Experience with defect troubleshooting methodologies for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
• Experience leading memory or logic fabs, or developing semiconductor equipment hardware or processes.
• MS degree in materials science, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or chemistry.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, interpersonal, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and drive subject matter experts to deliver programs on time and within budget.

Nice to have

• Experience with surface, gas species, and material analysis instruments such as SEM, FIB, TEM, AFM, EDX, XPS, Auger, XRD, XRF, Raman, FTIR, RGA, or OES.
• Knowledge of particulate mechanics and transport, aerosols, plasma, and vacuum technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive environment focused on learning, development, and career growth.
• Collaboration with research and development teams in the semiconductor and display industries.
• Comprehensive employee benefits supporting health and wellbeing.
• Potential eligibility for bonus and stock award programs.