Senior Director Process Engineer (Semiconductor)

Location: Gloucester, MA, United States; in-office execution required. Travel domestically and internationally 25–50% of the time, including short-notice customer support. Relocation eligible: No.

Salary: $200,000–$275,000 per year, plus potential bonus and stock awards.

Company

hirify.global develops materials science, engineering solutions, and equipment used in semiconductor chips and advanced displays.

What you will do

• Drive advanced process capabilities from development into stable, productive high-volume manufacturing.
• Establish requirements for process stability, repeatability, chamber matching, uptime, defectivity, consumable lifetime, and productivity.
• Lead operational excellence through root-cause analysis, risk management, change control, qualification discipline, and measurable execution plans.
• Lead and develop directors, managers, senior technical leaders, and productivity engineering teams.
• Guide plasma patterning systems and applications, including process and hardware co-optimization and resolution of complex technical problems.
• Lead customer engagements from evaluation through production adoption across advanced logic, foundry, IDM, and memory applications.

Requirements

• Minimum 15 years of relevant technology and engineering leadership experience in leading-edge semiconductor fabrication or equipment.
• Advanced knowledge of plasma etch equipment and process technology development, plasma physics and chemistry, surface reactions, ion/radical interactions, and RF power and bias control.
• Experience with patterning profiles, critical dimension, selectivity, uniformity, loading, defectivity, process-window control, and chamber hardware/process interactions.
• Experience with EUV patterning technology development and integration.
• Knowledge of advanced logic, foundry, IDM, and memory patterning requirements, including leading-edge technology development, production ramp, and HVM operations.
• Experience with equipment and process co-optimization and converting process performance into stable, repeatable, economically valuable manufacturing solutions.
• Ability to set direction, develop technical talent, influence across organizations, and translate technology strategy into measurable customer and business results.
• Ability to understand customer roadmaps, identify technology gaps, build trusted technical partnerships, and resolve highly complex technical and business problems.
• Ability to work in the office, collaborate closely with customers and account teams, support frequent nighttime calls across global time zones, and maintain high urgency and accountability.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in engineering, applied physics, materials science, or a related technical discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive work culture focused on learning, development, growth, innovation, and customer solutions.
• Comprehensive employee benefits supporting health and wellbeing.
• Potential eligibility for bonus and stock award programs.
• Regular domestic and international travel is required, with short-notice on-site customer support when needed.