Yield & Quality Engineer (UHP and CW Laser / Photonics Semiconductor)

Location: Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

Salary: $89,650–$166,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures photonics and semiconductor laser technologies.

What you will do

• Drive yield improvement for semiconductor laser wafer and chip fabrication using manufacturing, process, test, and device-performance data.
• Analyze large datasets to identify yield limiters, process excursions, and systematic failure signatures.
• Lead root-cause investigations for manufacturing and customer quality issues through containment, verified root cause, and corrective action.
• Design and execute DOE experiments with process engineering and R&D teams.
• Establish and monitor yield, process, and quality metrics to identify abnormal trends and excursions.
• Lead or contribute to 8D, CAPA, FMEA, SPC, and other quality-improvement activities while collaborating across engineering, manufacturing, reliability, quality, test, and supplier teams.

Requirements

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Relevant experience in semiconductor lasers, photonics, optoelectronics, compound-semiconductor fabrication, or semiconductor manufacturing.
• Ph.D. with 5+ years, M.S. with 8+ years, or B.S. with 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor device physics, yield engineering, data mining, statistical analysis, SPC, DOE, and correlation or regression analysis.
• Experience investigating quality, reliability, manufacturing, or customer-return issues and implementing corrective actions.
• Experience with analytical and data-mining tools such as JMP, Python, SQL, or equivalent.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with high-power or ultra-high-power semiconductor laser diodes.
• Knowledge of III-V materials and devices, particularly InP-based laser technologies.
• Experience correlating wafer fabrication parameters with optical or electrical device performance and reliability.
• Experience with wafer-level or chip-level test data analysis and failure-analysis techniques.
• Experience in high-volume or rapidly scaling semiconductor or photonics manufacturing environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with R&D, process engineering, manufacturing, reliability, quality, device engineering, test, and supplier teams.
• Technical findings and recommendations are communicated to engineering teams, manufacturing, and management.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and reasonable accommodation.