Design Engineer (Semiconductor Machinery Hardware)

Location: Los Angeles, California; full-time onsite presence in Hawthorne five days per week

Salary: $120,000–$150,000 per year, plus stock options

Company

hirify.global builds AI-native manufacturing systems that integrate software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts.

What you will do

• Design and redesign semiconductor fabrication hardware, including wafer-handling components, robotic end-effectors, vacuum-compatible armatures, cold plates, UHV chambers, gas manifolds, fluid systems, optics mounts, pedestals, and showerhead assemblies.
• Analyze component requirements, system constraints, materials, tolerances, thermal behavior, structural performance, manufacturability, and production considerations.
• Apply additive manufacturing to develop new geometries, consolidate assemblies, improve performance, and reduce cost and lead time.
• Evaluate design concepts, process capabilities, qualification pathways, and production scalability.
• Collaborate with internal engineering and operations teams to establish feasibility and execute designs.
• Work directly with customer engineering teams and provide application feedback for product, process, and technology roadmaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience in the semiconductor equipment or fabrication industry.
• Strong understanding of part design, design for manufacturing, component geometry, performance, and producibility.
• Systems-level understanding of semiconductor fabrication hardware and component integration within larger assemblies.
• Ability to reason independently about design tradeoffs, materials, tolerances, process capabilities, and production scalability.

Nice to have

• Experience with wafer-handling systems, vacuum hardware, thermal management components, fluid delivery systems, or precision structural assemblies.
• Experience with additive manufacturing, casting, forging, or advanced machining.
• Experience taking hardware through development, qualification, and production ramp.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Strong first-principles reasoning and experience working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, diverse, collaborative culture focused on learning and deliberate data-driven decisions.
• Significant stock option package and employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance, traditional and Roth 401(k), paid vacation, sick leave, company holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Relocation assistance is provided.
• Free catered lunch and dinner, flexible work hours, casual dress, and regular catered team-building events.