Foundry Engineer for Advanced Technology, Sr. Staff

Job Posting Date

2025-10-01

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General Summary:

As a foundry technology engineer, you will be working in an exciting fast growing automotive semiconductor development team, collaborating closely with our internal teams to define the technology roadmap to meet automotive semiconductor product speed, power, defectivity, and reliability requirements; you will then drive foundry partners to deliver process integration scheme, design rules best optimized for Power/Performance/Area, Product yield, failure analysis, and fast manufacturing ramp. Candidate will work closely on technology maturity and reliability evaluation, model to silicon verification, and eventually help bring products to market with highest yield and reliability.

As a member of Qualcomm’s industry leading Fabless Semiconductor Technology group, candidate will be responsible for technology node selections for Qualcomm’s fast growing Automotive semiconductor products. Candidate will play hands-on role in defining and evaluating new technology features to optimize Power, Performance, Cost, and Reliability metrics as relevant to Automotive application products. He/she will closely collaborate with various internal design, testing, and business teams, and leading foundries to bring up new products to meet performance and power target, and to qualify for market launch.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years’ experience in CMOS technology development especially in Finfet and beyond semiconductor process nodes
• Proficient in breadth of advanced CMOS technology: technology process flow, Design Technology Co-Optimization, Device physics, and Reliability
• Good understanding of device/product reliability requirements and qualification
• Solid understanding of yield (for a product or a technology learning vehicle), including defect pareto development and the Failure Analysis (FA) methodology
• Skilled in translating process technology features and details to Product Performance, Power, Area, Cost, Yield and Time to Market Risk.
• Strong data analysis (and statistical analysis) skills; proficiency with data analysis tools for both device and yield analysis
• Ability to liaise with company internal design, product engineers, supply chain and external foundry partners to define optimum technology meeting Product requirement; Building trust with these key internal and external partners to facilitate decisions and accelerate schedules.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, and intellectual curiosity; passion for bringing a culture of innovation and problem solving through behavior, decisions, and actions.
• Advanced Degree (B.S., M.S., or Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or Chemical Engineer

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$164,000.00 - $246,000.00

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