Process Integration Engineer
HRL Laboratories, an IBM company, pioneers the next frontiers of physical and information science. Delivering transformative technologies in automotive, aerospace and defense, HRL advances the critical missions of its customers to help them remove limitations and create competitive advantage. HRL then transitions the work back to customers – ready for real-world application. For more than 70 years, HRL’s rich portfolio of scientific discoveries and engineering innovations continues to build on each other — often in unexpected, profound and far-reaching ways. As a private company owned by IBM, HRL prioritizes purpose over profit, significantly advancing the state of the art.
Essential Duties:
• Develop semiconductor processes and integration schemes to support infrared device architectures and focal plane array (FPA) manufacturing.
• Execute and manage FPA manufacturing plans, ensuring all required engineering activities are completed and adequately documented prior to build initiation, and that manufacturing plans are baselined and approved by functional stakeholders.
• Evaluate and optimize process routes, establish best practices, and drive continuous improvements in product cost, schedule, yield, and manufacturability.
• Document processes, prepare technical reports, review inline metrology and electrical data, and perform failure analysis and root cause analysis.
• Provide technical leadership for root cause and corrective action (RCCA) activities, including troubleshooting complex issues, participating in tiger teams, and developing effective recovery plans.
• Support mask design and tape-out activities by defining and reviewing process design rules and participating in final mask data reviews to ensure compliance with manufacturing requirements.
• Support technical activities at subcontractors and external vendors, including process transfer, troubleshooting, and resolution of manufacturing issues.
• Monitor and report build progress, work-in-process (WIP), and process configurations, identifying opportunities to improve manufacturing efficiency and execution.
• Apply an understanding of cost, schedule, and risk management to development and manufacturing activities, ensuring alignment with program and organizational objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to develop scalable, manufacturable, and portable process solutions.
• Leverage data-driven analysis and logical reasoning to identify process improvements, assess risks, and support timely resolution of technical and manufacturing challenges.
• Serve as a technical interface to customers and program stakeholders, representing program needs and translating customer requirements into actionable engineering priorities.
Required Qualifications:
This role requires a collaborative, results-oriented engineer with strong technical, analytical, and cross-functional skills. The ideal candidate will possess:
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field with 5+ years of fabrication process experience.
• Demonstrated ability to interface effectively with customers and program stakeholders, translate customer needs into technical requirements, and advocate for program priorities.
• Hands-on experience with cleanroom fabrication and semiconductor process development.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor device physics and the ability to translate device performance requirements into relevant process requirements, critical process steps, key performance indicators (KPIs), and tolerances.
• Experience analyzing manufacturing and process data, including statistical process control (SPC), design of experiments (DOE), and statistical analysis using JMP or similar tools.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to a range of audiences, including technical teams, program stakeholders, and external partners.
• Proven ability to collaborate across functional and organizational boundaries, identify gaps in interfaces and handoffs, and drive both short-term resolution and sustainable, scalable improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to foster a results-oriented and can-do culture.
• Track record of successfully delivering products or components in one or more of the following areas: semiconductor processing, microelectronics, or related advanced manufacturing environments.
• Familiarity with programming environments and databases, with the ability to analyze and synthesize large datasets and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Understanding of manufacturing and industrial engineering principles, including effective engagement with functions such as inventory control, supply chain, purchasing, quality assurance, and process engineering.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with Infrared/ Focal Plane Array fabrication.
• Experience with front end wafer processing.
• Familiarity with agile development principles, iterative design, small-batch processing, configuration control, and product lifecycle management.
Special Requirements:
US citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance
Compensation and Benefits:
• Pay Range: $140,700 - $175,950
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location (California). The range
displayed on each job posting reflects the target range for new hire salaries for the position.
Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors,
including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter
can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Benefits: HRL offers a generous and very competitive total compensation and benefits
package. Our Regular/Full Time benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance,
401K match, gym facilities, PTO, Sick time, upward mobility, and an exciting and
challenging work environment.
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- Have you ever been employed by HRL Laboratories, LLC:
- How did you first hear about HRL?
- Are you able to obtain a security clearance?
- This is not a remote role. Are you open to work onsite at HRL?
- To comply with U.S. Export Control requirements, U.S. Person status as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 is required. Which of the following best describes your U.S. Person status (C)?
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- Are you currently related to any current employees of HRL Laboratories? If Yes, please indicate their name and job title below. Do not include any information relating to marital status.
- Were you referred to this role by an HRL Employee? If yes, who?
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- Have you ever had a security clearance? If Yes, give name of employer, clearance level, and inclusive dates:
- What are your salary expectations?