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Foundry Process & Equipment Lead
Choose the first qualified process path, name its owners, and reject work that cannot meet safety, product, or cost gates.
Careers · AI Infrastructure and Foundry
Make computing useful. Build its future in America.
Touchdown owns the customer relationship for scoped AI infrastructure work while engineering an American fab and foundry in parallel. We are hiring across software, systems, advanced packaging, lithography, process integration, equipment, test, quality, and operations. The fab program is in engineering; no production fab is operating today.
These are focused application lanes, not rigid boxes. We care about evidence, learning speed, ownership, and the ability to connect your layer to the full system.
/01 · Foundry and fab
Foundry roles. Applications open.
We are engineering a modular U.S. foundry path, starting with a high-mix advanced packaging direction. These are application lanes for the work and evidence needed to qualify a route. We do not operate a production fab today. Read the Foundry hiring board →
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Process Integration Engineer
Turn separate process steps into a controlled route with measurable handoffs, holds, and yield learning.
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Advanced Packaging & Heterogeneous Integration Engineer
Define an advanced package from known-good die through assembly, test, reliability, and customer acceptance.
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Lithography & Patterning Engineer
Qualify a practical patterning route for a named package layer, with overlay, dimensions, defects, and cost under control.
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Deposition, Metallization & Plating Engineer
Qualify films and conductors against electrical, adhesion, uniformity, contamination, and reliability limits.
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Etch, Clean & Surface Preparation Engineer
Define selective removal and cleaning steps that protect the workpiece and leave measurable surfaces for the next process.
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Bonding, Assembly & Rework Engineer
Choose and qualify assembly joins, alignment, inspection, and rework limits for a real package.
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Metrology & Inspection Engineer
Make each process claim measurable with calibrated methods, sampling, uncertainty, and independent reject rules.
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Electrical Test & ATE Engineer
Build test coverage and limits that turn a package or device into an accepted electrical result.
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Yield, Reliability & Failure Analysis Engineer
Trace yield loss and reliability failures to measured mechanisms, then verify corrective action against a baseline.
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Fab Equipment & Maintenance Engineer
Evaluate and qualify process equipment, then build safe maintenance and recovery paths for an authorized line.
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Fab Facilities, Utilities & EHS Engineer
Test whether a candidate site can safely support the process, equipment, people, and waste streams.
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Manufacturing Automation & Data Engineer
Make every lot, recipe, material, tool state, measurement, hold, and release traceable.
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Quality Systems & Supplier Qualification Engineer
Set acceptance, hold, corrective-action, and supplier controls before a product or process can be qualified.
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Production Planning & Lot-Control Lead
Plan qualified lots against real capacity, holds, yield, materials, and customer commitments.
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Foundry Supply-Chain & Procurement Engineer
Compare buying, partnering, and building against the same product specification, cost, rights, and risk.
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NPI & Customer Qualification Engineer
Turn a buyer's workpiece into a written qualification test, partner baseline, and transfer decision.
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Fab & Packaging Technician
Execute approved work at qualified sites and leave a complete record for inspection, test, and release.
/02 · AI and systems
AI, systems, and customer roles.
Choose the lane closest to your work. If your experience crosses roles, select the closest one and explain the range in your application.
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Founding Member of Technical Staff, AI Infrastructure
Own the cross-layer path from a real customer workflow to private evaluation, agents, software, managed inference, and infrastructure decisions.
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Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineering
Build the product and operating software that turns technical capability into something people can use.
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Founding Inference Systems Engineer
Build the execution layer between a company AI workflow and the infrastructure that runs it.
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Founding Kernel Engineer, GPU Kernels
Turn measured AI-system bottlenecks into correctness-gated GPU kernel, precision, and memory-movement improvements.
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Member of Technical Staff, FPGA and Driver Systems
Build the verified bridge between host software, programmable logic, memory, and physical devices.
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Research Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Systems
Turn repeated software and infrastructure limits into hardware requirements, experiments, and defensible decisions.
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Research Member of Technical Staff, Materials and Manufacturing
Turn physical limits in compute into materials, process, reliability, and manufacturing research that can be qualified.
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GTM and Community Lead
Build demand in person: run the events, workshops, field programs, and follow-up that turn technical work into durable relationships.
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Member of Technical Staff Intern
Learn by shipping a bounded project across agents, software, systems, kernels, hardware, or technical education.
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What we look for.
Start with the work
Name the user, the problem, what breaks, and what a useful result changes.
Show the receipt
Connect claims to code, traces, experiments, measurements, shipped systems, or reviewed research.
Own the handoff
Make the work understandable, testable, and usable by the next person.
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Apply.
Send the clearest evidence of how you work. If uploads fail, email the same material to info@touchdown-labs.com.