New Grad Engineer

Touchdown Labs; Oregon; On-site; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Touchdown Labs is seeking a New Grad Engineer to join a multi-disciplinary team in a hands-on role across software, hardware, and manufacturing. You will work on live programs, own a bounded deliverable, and present evidence-based results.

The role emphasizes AI-native work habits, collaboration with senior engineers, and learning across multiple layers from test to AI platform as part of a structured rotation. Open to 2025–2027 graduates in engineering, CS, or physical sciences.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in engineering, CS, materials science or physics (2025–2027 grads).
• Evidence you built or measured something real.
• AI-native working habits.

Responsibilities

• Own a bounded deliverable with a measured result.
• Reproducible measurements, scripts, and reports.
• Pair with a senior engineer on a live program.
• Present it with evidence and conclusions.

Skills

Evidence of real work

AI-native working habits

Education

BS/MS/PhD in engineering, CS, materials science or physics

Job description

Open role

New Grad Engineer

Our mission

AI is becoming fundamental to how the world works. When it is, the ability to compute, and to manufacture the hardware that computes, should not be concentrated in a few places. Touchdown's mission is to make compute accessible to the whole world and to reindustrialize advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. We co-design everything for next-generation compute: the AI systems people use, the software that serves them, the architectures and chips underneath, and the packaging, test, and manufacturing that make them real. Co-design brings down the complexity and cost of building compute. That is what makes manufacturing in America competitive again, and what puts compute within reach of people and companies everywhere. We build alongside the world's best manufacturing ecosystems, including Taiwan's, and every role here makes one layer better and carries what it learns to the rest.

Why this role matters

Co-design needs engineers who understand more than one layer. New graduates join real programs and learn across software, hardware, and manufacturing from the start.

Technical scope

Rotations or placements across test, process, packaging, compute architecture, and the AI platform; hands-on lab, code, and data work; mentoring by senior engineers; structured technical reviews.

First 90 days

• Pair with a senior engineer on a live program.
• Own a bounded deliverable with a measured result.
• Present it with the evidence behind it.

What you will own

• A bounded piece of a real program, with senior review.
• Reproducible measurements, scripts, and reports.

What you bring

• BS, MS, or PhD in engineering, computer science, materials science, or physics (2025–2027 graduates).
• Evidence you built or measured something real.
• AI-native working habits.

Helpful experience

• Lab or cleanroom experience
• Mandarin for Hsinchu

How we work

• AI-native by default. You use coding agents, AI-assisted analysis, and automation every day, and you check their output against measurements before anyone relies on it.
• We work alongside foundries, test houses, OSATs, and research labs, and we build with partners rather than against them.

How the role works

• Full-time.
• Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan
• Santa Clara, CA.
• Openings: Cohort.
• Taiwan roles are employed through a local employer of record. Mandarin is a strong plus for Taiwan roles; English is required for written work.
• Pay: $115,000–$140,000 base (Santa Clara, CA).
• Ranges are base pay for U.S. roles and depend on location, experience, and level. Full-time roles also include equity and benefits. Taiwan pay is set to the local market and discussed in the first call.
• Start date and employment details are discussed during the process.

Apply for this role

Applications are reviewed against the work described here. We do not use a degree, title, or keyword list as a substitute for evidence.