Wafer Fab Supervisor (InP Photonics)

Location: City of Industry/Rowland, California, USA; onsite cleanroom role with possible flexibility outside standard shift hours for engineering runs, excursions, or production needs.

Salary: $82,000–$117,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is hiring for semiconductor and photonics wafer fabrication operations.

What you will do

• Plan and direct daily wafer fabrication across photolithography, PECVD, dry etch, wet etch, and metallization for InP BH DFB laser and BH Gain Chip products.
• Set lot priorities, coordinate production planning, conduct shift handoffs, and track WIP, tool status, bottlenecks, throughput, cycle time, and wafer-out targets.
• Coordinate equipment downtime, preventive maintenance, repairs, supplies, chemicals, gases, and production documentation.
• Lead, schedule, coach, train, and evaluate technicians and operators while building cross-trained coverage across fab modules.
• Oversee process control, SPC, yield, defect, rework, excursions, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, process qualifications, DOEs, and NPI runs.
• Enforce EHS, cleanroom, chemical, process-gas, precious-metal, lockout/tagout, quality-system, document-control, and training-record requirements; lead continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, materials science, chemistry, physics, or a related technical field preferred; an associate degree with equivalent experience is considered.
• 8–12 years of experience in semiconductor or photonics wafer processing, including direct III-V/InP process experience.
• 2–3 years of experience in a lead, supervisory, or team leadership role in a wafer fab or similar high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on III-V/InP production experience across photolithography, PECVD, dry etch, wet etch, and metallization.
• Working knowledge of complete III-V wafer-fab process flows, in-line metrology, SPC, root-cause analysis, and structured problem-solving.
• Ability to support and troubleshoot any fab process area and cross-train and qualify technicians across modules.
• Ability to manage throughput, cycle-time, WIP, yield, defect, and rework targets and prioritize competing demands.
• Strong understanding of cleanroom, chemical, process-gas, precious-metal, and equipment lockout/tagout safety requirements.
• Effective collaboration with technicians, operators, engineers, planning, quality, human resources, and management; proficiency with MES or lot-tracking systems and standard office software.
• Ability to work in a cleanroom for extended periods across multiple process bays and around acids, solvents, process gases, and precious metals while following safety procedures.

Nice to have

• Experience leading hiring, onboarding, retention, and technician training or certification programs.

Culture & Benefits

• High-volume manufacturing environment focused on ownership, accountability, open communication, safety, quality, throughput, yield, and continuous improvement.
• Collaboration across process engineering, equipment engineering, quality, production planning, human resources, and fab management.
• Full-time onsite work in a III-V cleanroom environment.