Process Integration Development Engineer (Defect Metrology)

Location: Hillsboro, Oregon, United States; hybrid work model with time split between the assigned hirify.global site and off-site.

Annual salary: $115,110–$219,550 USD.

Company

hirify.global develops advanced computing and semiconductor manufacturing technologies, including process technologies that extend Moore’s law.

What you will do

• Own a process segment and ensure metrology detects and supports responses to yield-limiting defects before end-of-line sort.
• Manage metrology scan data collection strategies, data integrity, and quality.
• Investigate exclusionary baseline shifts, restore defect health, and develop defect reduction roadmaps.
• Develop metrology recipes and response action plans for New Product Introduction, using QTM, Short Loop, and other test vehicles.
• Partner with integration, yield, and failure analysis teams to identify root causes and qualify process fixes through Model-Based Problem Solving.
• Present defect summaries and provide leadership through Integrated Module Team and Focus Team forums while promoting collaboration, safety, accountability, and quality.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with 3+ years of experience, or PhD with 1+ years of experience in Computer Science, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Optics, or Chemistry focused on hands-on experimental research.
• At least 1+ year of experience in experimental research, including designing and conducting experiments, operating characterization, fabrication, or synthesis equipment, and analyzing statistical data.
• At least 1+ year of experience with materials characterization, materials fabrication, synthesis, metrology, and statistical or data analysis, including SEM, TEM, MATLAB, Excel, or JMP.
• At least 1+ year of experience with semiconductor processing fundamentals, such as lithography, wet etch, dry etch, chemical or mechanical polishing, semiconductor or transistor device physics, and design of experiments.
• At least 1+ year of experience with complex problem-solving methodologies, including root cause analysis, Model-Based Problem Solving, 5 Why, or Fishbone.
• Strong data analysis, problem-solving, communication, navigation, ownership, adaptability, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work with larger audiences and drive issues to closure while adhering to hirify.global values, including customer focus, innovation, results, integrity, quality, and inclusion.

Nice to have

• At least 1+ year of experience in defect metrology, defect improvement, yield improvement, or process integration.
• Experience with Statistical Process Control or Design of Experiments principles.
• Expertise in semiconductor physics or semiconductor processing.
• Expertise with brightfield, darkfield, or voltage contrast defect metrology tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on trust, safety, accountability, quality, and sustaining excellence.
• Hybrid work model combining on-site and off-site work.
• Competitive pay, stock bonuses, health benefits, retirement benefits, and vacation.
• Opportunity to contribute to advanced silicon process technologies and future computing technology.

Hiring process

• Experienced-hire process with interviews and candidate guidance provided through hirify.global’s hiring resources.