Photolithography Process Engineer
Cellular Vehicles
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 17, 2026
Summary
This is a full-time lithography process development engineer position.
Description
The process engineer will have significant day-to-day responsibilities in the process development fabrication facility, working closely with technicians and equipment engineers to understand, resolve, and improve uptime, yield, and performance as needed. They will collaborate with the integration team and other process modules in cross-functional activities to complete seamless handoffs from the process development phase to potentially transfer the process to foundry partners and provide support to foundry partners as needed.
Responsibilities
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $147,400 and $272,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.
This is a full-time lithography process development engineer position.
Description
The process engineer will have significant day-to-day responsibilities in the process development fabrication facility, working closely with technicians and equipment engineers to understand, resolve, and improve uptime, yield, and performance as needed. They will collaborate with the integration team and other process modules in cross-functional activities to complete seamless handoffs from the process development phase to potentially transfer the process to foundry partners and provide support to foundry partners as needed.
Responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining processes in a semiconductor wafer research facility to create novel devices
- Develop recipes and establish recipe control standards to ensure that experiments are conducted according to plan, resulting in accurate data collection and analysis
- Design and execute experiments as necessary, participate in data interpretation to determine the next steps towards achieving the required device performance, process efficiency, and yield
- BS and a minimum of 5 years hands-on experience in semiconductor lithography process engineer
- Experience in optoelectronics, III-V semiconductor devices or III-V materials
- Experience in Design of Experiments (DOE) methodology that can be applied to photolithography processing
- Experience with generating, analyzing and interpreting data
- Must be comfortable working in a fab environment as well as with chemicals such as photoresists, solvents and resist developers
- MS in an engineering degree (Chemical, Electrical, Materials Science, or Chemistry preferred)
- Strong photolithography knowledge and hands-on experience of photolithography equipment’s in steppers/scanner, contact aligners, photo tracks and metrology tools (CDSEM and Overlay Tool)
- Experience with failure analysis characterization techniques like SEM, XRD etc
- Experience with data analysis tools and principles of statistically designed experimentation (JMP, Matlab, Excel etc)
- Ability to deal with multiple issues and shifting priorities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to interact professionally with multiple disciplines and work together to prioritize issues and solve problems
- Good foundational problem-solving skills with creative solutions and out-of-the box thinking
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $147,400 and $272,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.