Process engineer
Owns the steps that build a chip (deposition, etch, lithography, cleans) and tunes them for yield and repeatability.
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CAREER PATHS
Chip careers, mapped to what you can learn.
The semiconductor industry hires for far more than one job title. Pick a role to see what it involves and which Fab Path units build the foundations for it.
Device engineer
Connects process choices to electrical behavior: threshold voltage, drive current, leakage, and reliability.
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Equipment & tool engineer
Keeps the lithography scanners, etchers, and deposition chambers running: vacuum, plasma, motion control, and uptime.
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Circuit & RF design engineer
Designs the circuits on the chip using a foundry's transistor models, so gain, noise, and bias have to be intuitive.
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Packaging & test engineer
Turns finished dies into shipped parts: dicing, die attach, wire and flip-chip bonding, encapsulation, and test.
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MEMS & sensor engineer
Builds microscale sensors and actuators such as accelerometers, micromirrors, and microfluidic chips.
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Energy-storage & materials R&D
Develops electrode materials and devices, from supercapacitors to batteries, with electrochemistry and microfabrication.
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Biosensor & bioelectronics
Turns transistors and microchips into detectors for ions and biological molecules.
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Where these roles exist
Foundries, integrated device makers, equipment suppliers, fabless design companies, packaging and test houses, national labs, and university cleanrooms all hire for these functions.
- Foundries (e.g. TSMC, GlobalFoundries)
- Device makers (e.g. Intel, Texas Instruments)
- Equipment (e.g. ASML, Applied Materials, Lam Research)
- Fabless design (e.g. Qualcomm, NVIDIA)
- Packaging & test houses
- National labs & university cleanrooms
An honest scope note. Fab Path teaches the fundamentals underneath these roles. It is not company-specific training, it doesn't cover any company's proprietary processes, and advanced-node topics such as EUV lithography are not covered.