Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs

Process Development Engineer

Menlo Park

H1B sponsorship available$175k-$275kDetected 118 days ago
Machine LearningData EngineeringHardware DesignPublic Speaking

About the role

  • As a Process Development Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and optimizing the workflows and tools that enable high-efficiency process technologies, primarily for the semiconductor industry.
  • You will also be hands-on in establishing and standardizing process flows, generating and analyzing data, creating technical documentation, and engaging with customers to ensure alignment between lab capabilities and market needs.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct complex design of experiments (DOE), define recipe structures from scratch, implement statistical process control (SPC) and fault detection and classification (FDC), and extend these practices across a wide range of equipment.
  • Lab Development: Contribute to the design, construction, and scale-up of an AI-accelerated thin-film and semiconductor processing laboratory, enabling scientists to pursue materials discovery.
  • Build modular test stands or hardware needed for proof-of-concept experiments.
  • Documentation & Data: Create internal and external documentation, strategies, procedures, presentations, and technical reports, and establish standardized data pipelines to feed into AI training infrastructure.
  • Expertise in the hardware design and underlying mechanisms of high-vacuum systems, advanced deposition/etch platforms, or metrology tools.

Requirements

  • Extensive hands-on experience in process engineering or equipment engineering in the semiconductor manufacturing industry.
  • Strong understanding of overall semiconductor process flows and cross-module process integrations.

Compensation

  • The annual compensation range for this role - $175,000-$275,000

Benefits

  • Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and training or experience

Company info

  • Customer & Vendor Engagement: Communicate and engage directly with key customers and vendors to resolve highly complex process engineering issues and address customer High Value Problems (HVPs).

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Yes, we sponsor visas and will do everything we can to assist in this process with our legal support.

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