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About the Role

The Director of Engineering provides executive-level leadership for process engineering, process development, and yield optimization at the SkyWater Austin, TX facility. This role oversees the fab's core process technologies and node development, leading a multidisciplinary team to ensure factory competitiveness through technology scaling, process stabilization, and accelerated yield learning.

Responsibilities

• Define the engineering vision and multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with corporate growth, yield scaling, and profitability goals.
• Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary team of engineering managers and individual contributors.
• Own the balanced scorecard metrics across all critical fab modules.
• Maximize overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) by optimizing and ensuring process robustness.
• Enforce Statistical Process Control (SPC), Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Collaborate with the Technology Development (TD) team to transfer new process nodes into the fab.
• Own the engineering qualification of new process windows.
• Manage capital expenditure (CapEx) budgets and operational budgets (OpEx).
• Direct relationships with major semiconductor OEM equipment vendors and manage service contract negotiations.
• Maintain adherence to Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security (EH&S) policies.
• Ensure data integrity and strict full-material traceability at the individual wafer and lot levels.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Solid State Physics, or a closely related technical field.
• Minimum of 12–15+ years of direct engineering experience within a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing cleanroom environment.
• Minimum of 5–7+ years in a senior engineering management role.
• Proven track record of scaling teams and driving complex, multi-million dollar engineering projects.
• Extensive hands-on historical technical expertise in at least two core fab modules.
• Expert knowledge of semiconductor physics, device architecture, and end-to-end wafer processing workflows.
• Deep familiarity with factory automation frameworks, MES software systems, and equipment communication protocols.
• Strong command of data-driven analytics platforms used for advanced yield learning and root-cause analysis.
• Exceptional cross-functional collaboration capabilities.
• Crisis-management adaptability, capable of steering technical teams through high-stakes, 24/7 production downtime anomalies or volatile supply chain bottlenecks.

Skills

• Process Engineering
• Process Development
• Yield Optimization
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Technology Roadmapping
• Team Leadership
• Mentoring
• Balanced Scorecard Metrics
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Process Robustness
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Lean Manufacturing
• Six Sigma
• New Product Introduction (NPI)
• Technology Transfer
• Process Window Qualification
• Design Rules
• Capital Expenditure (CapEx) Budgeting
• Operational Expenditure (OpEx) Budgeting
• Vendor Management
• Service Contract Negotiation
• Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security (EH&S)
• GxP Protocols
• Industrial Safety Standards
• Data Integrity
• Material Traceability
• Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
• Semiconductor Physics
• Device Architecture
• Wafer Processing
• Factory Automation
• SECS/GEM
• Data Analytics
• Yield Learning
• Root-Cause Analysis
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Crisis Management

Location

• Austin, TX

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 12-15+ years engineering experience
• 5-7+ years senior engineering management experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Solid State Physics, or a closely related technical field.
• Master’s degree or Ph.D. is highly preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Incentive plans
• Employee financial benefits
• 401(k) match
• Life insurance
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Vision benefits
• Legal planning
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• On-site cafeteria
• Fitness facility
• Self-serve market

About the Company

• SkyWater's ingenuity helps improve lives by manufacturing U.S. made semiconductors essential for modern life, including automotive safety, medical devices, consumer electronics, and American security.
• The company is at the forefront of commercializing exciting technologies like superconducting, 3D integrated circuits, carbon nanotubes, photonic logic devices, and micro electro-mechanical systems.
• SkyWater serves aerospace and defense, medical, automotive, consumer, and industrial markets, providing intellectual property security and quality manufacturing services.
• The company's values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Growth Mindset foster a learning environment.
• SkyWater invests in developing highly skilled employees from diverse backgrounds, including those entering the workforce for the first time, from the military, and from various educational backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity

• SkyWater complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities unless doing so would cause an undue hardship.
• Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability.
• EOE, including disability/vets.