Foundry Process & Equipment Lead: Shape the First-Process Path

Touchdown Labs; Gates (OR); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Touchdown Labs seeks a Foundry Process & Equipment Lead to steer the first-stage process decisions for advanced packaging and supplier comparisons. You will define owner responsibilities, ensure safety and cost criteria, and lead multi-domain reviews before any tool purchase or site commitment.

The role emphasizes transitioning customer requirements into measurable process capability and capital decisions, with hands-on guidance across process, equipment, and quality teams.

Qualifications

• Released semiconductor or advanced-packaging processes; equipment, safety, supplier, and transfer judgment.
• Led a semiconductor or packaging process through qualification, transfer, or production release.
• Ability to translate a customer specification into measurable process capability, supplier comparisons, and a capital decision.

Responsibilities

• Own the first-process comparison, process/equipment team, technical rejection, and qualified work boundary.
• Compare a merchant or partner route with internal process against the same customer workpiece and acceptance test.
• Set process-owner, equipment-owner, EHS, quality, and independent release responsibilities before trials.
• Reject a route when safety, rights, utility, cost, yield, or supplier evidence is missing.
• Build a stage-gated process plan with sample size, measurements, repeatability, ownership.
• Lead cross-discipline reviews of tool readiness, process capability, supplier evidence, and cost of a rejected lot.

Skills

Process & equipment judgment

Release decision experience

Cross-functional coordination

Qualified release decisions

Job description

Touchdown Labs seeks a Foundry Process & Equipment Lead to steer the first-stage process decisions for advanced packaging and supplier comparisons. You will define owner responsibilities, ensure safety and cost criteria, and lead multi-domain reviews before any tool purchase or site commitment.

The role emphasizes transitioning customer requirements into measurable process capability and capital decisions, with hands-on guidance across process, equipment, and quality teams.