Foundry Technology Engineer

Foundry Technology Engineer

Challenges are our drive, innovation our calling. We are a team of passionate, accomplished professionals making a mark in the semiconductor industry. We’re an innovative leader in high-speed and energy-efficient chip-to-chip link solutions critical to the evolution of the electronics industry, continuously developing to meet the demands of today’s customers and tomorrow’s. If you enjoy being part of a high-tech scale-up and are motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as an authority in silicon manufacturing
• Promote Design for Manufacture (DFM) principles across engineering teams
• Manage the interface between the organisation and external foundry partners throughout product realisation, ensuring qualification, early-volume success, and sustaining engineering
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including product design, engineering, and marketing—to ensure silicon technology requirements are fully supported by external manufacturing partners
• Review foundry technology offerings and internal product requirements, driving alignment with the company’s technology roadmap
• Drive accountability, identify risks, solve problems, remove roadblocks, and ensure new-product requirements meet quality standards and NPI timelines/budgets
• Provide silicon leadership in areas such as time-to-market, yield, quality, and cost optimisation
• Participate in selecting silicon foundry partners and fabrication facilities
• Improve production performance through regular metrics reviews, business reviews, and supplier audits
• Prepare technical analyses and data-driven reports for internal teams and customers
• Ensure suppliers understand and adhere to production requirements
• Maintain all required documentation and records

Skills

• Strong leadership and communication skills for working with cross-functional silicon development teams
• Highly skilled in analytical and technical evaluation using semiconductor-industry data-analysis tools (e.g., JMP) and Six Sigma methodologies
• Ability to work to tight and variable timescales
• Strong workload-planning and task-management skills (for self and others)
• Willingness to travel to company sites, suppliers, and customers as required
• Excellent diagnostic, analytical, and numerical abilities
• Innovative, creative, and capable of lateral-thinking problem solving
• Basic software-scripting skills (advantageous)

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry, with strong knowledge of manufacturing processes, procedures, facilities, and equipment
• Experience working in a fabless semiconductor environment with foundry partners (preferred)
• Familiarity with commercially driven organisations within product-development and operations settings
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, and influencing skills, with confidence interacting with customers, suppliers, and senior management
• Experience in advanced process nodes (e.g., N16 to N3 CMOS / FinFET) preferred
• Background in process technology (advantageous)
• Experience with MPW and tape-out processes (advantageous)
• Experience analysing PCM / e-test / WAT parameters

Education

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent academic, vocational, or industry experience