Chip Fabrication Software Engineer (Greenfield)

Fab2; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Paid time off

Visa sponsorship

Life insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Learning & development

Commuter benefits

Office lunches & snacks

Job summary

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with Austin offices, is seeking a Software Engineer to build the software that runs chip fabrication.

You will own core parts of the platform, model tools and processes, and create interfaces to control equipment, ingest telemetry, and provide a complete history for every wafer.

This role blends software and physical systems, offering ownership and collaboration with process and hardware engineers.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production systems.
• Full-stack ability across frontend, backend, databases, and system design.
• Ability to model complex physical processes and turn them into simple, reliable software.
• Strong product instincts and willingness to work directly with engineers using the software.
• Effective with AI coding tools while still able to read, write, debug, and reason about code independently.
• Strong technical communication and a high degree of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own core parts of the software platform that runs chip fabrication at Fab2.
• Design the systems that model tools, recipes, wafers, masks, and every process run through the fab.
• Build interfaces for controlling equipment and monitoring the state of the fab in real time.
• Ingest and make sense of high-frequency telemetry, video, logs, and run data from fabrication equipment.
• Develop tools for metrology, process analysis, and SPC that help engineers understand what happened and decide what to run next.
• Create a complete history for every wafer, connecting its recipes, equipment state, sensor data, and results.
• Partner directly with process and hardware engineers to turn process research into production manufacturing capabilities

Skills

Strong software engineering

Full-stack development

System design

AI coding tools

Technical communication

Ownership

Job description

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with Austin offices, is seeking a Software Engineer to build the software that runs chip fabrication.

You will own core parts of the platform, model tools and processes, and create interfaces to control equipment, ingest telemetry, and provide a complete history for every wafer.

This role blends software and physical systems, offering ownership and collaboration with process and hardware engineers.