Foundry Technology Engagement Engineer

Snowcap's wafers are fabricated at European foundry partners running superconducting NbTiN process. The work that decides whether a process target lands as a working device — or as a chunk of yield loss we did not see coming — happens at those sites, in conversations with their process engineering teams, in front of their characterization data. This role is Snowcap's technical owner of that work. We are hiring two engineers into this role to cover the partner footprint with the depth it requires.
You will translate Snowcap device requirements and process targets into foundry-compatible process specifications, monitor process runs and characterization data, flag yield and process drift issues before they become tape-out problems, and drive the process improvement and roadmap conversations with foundry engineering counterparts. You will work directly with Snowcap's fab technology and physics teams in a flat, matrixed organization. You will spend a significant portion of your time on-site at European partner facilities — France, Germany, Netherlands, depending on the partner mix — and this travel is not optional.
In twelve months, the partner relationships you carry and the technical discipline you bring to those engagements should be the reason process targets land. The characterization review cadence, the issue-triage flow with the foundry, and the internal feedback loop to our physics and fab teams become the standard every future foundry engagement at Snowcap inherits.

- Own the primary technical relationship with one or more European NbTiN foundry partners — the conversations, the data exchanges, and the on-site presence that makes those engagements work.
- Translate Snowcap device requirements and process targets into foundry-compatible process specifications that the partner can actually run against.
- Monitor process runs, review characterization data coming out of the foundry, and flag yield issues and process drift the moment the data shows them.
- Drive process improvement and roadmap alignment conversations with foundry engineering teams — including the technical pushback when a proposed change does not serve Snowcap's device.
- Close the loop internally with the fab technology and physics teams: turn what the foundry shows us into actionable feedback on device, integration, and process targeting decisions.
- Apply SPC and characterization discipline to partner data — know what the limits and control charts should say before the foundry tells you.
- Travel regularly to European foundry sites (20–40%) — France, Germany, Netherlands, depending on partner mix — and operate effectively in their working culture and language environments.
- Set the standards at Snowcap for what foundry engagement looks like — cadence, documentation, escalation paths, and the body of process knowledge that the next engineer in this seat inherits.

- Direct, hands-on experience in superconducting thin-film process technology — NbTiN, NbN, Nb, or directly equivalent — at the integration or process engineering level.
- Track record of foundry engagement or process integration at a production or pilot-line scale, where your decisions affected real wafer lots and real yield outcomes.
- Working fluency with process characterization and statistical process control — you can read control charts, spot drift, and argue defensibly about what is real and what is sampling noise.
- Cross-cultural communication skills and demonstrated comfort working with European research and industrial foundries — language, business culture, and engineering culture all matter here.
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally to Europe 20–40% of the time. This is a hard requirement, not a preference — the role does not work without it.
- Comfort operating independently on partner sites without daily on-site supervision from Snowcap, and the judgment to know what decisions to make in the moment and what to escalate.

- Prior experience at ST Microelectronics, imec, CEA-Leti, VTT, PTB, IQM, or similar European superconducting or advanced CMOS process facilities — existing relationships matter here.
- Advanced CMOS process integration background — MOL, BEOL, interconnect, salicide, contact modules — at a leading-edge node, particularly where the underlying skills transfer to a non-CMOS thin-film process.
- Reliability engineering background covering interconnect reliability, electromigration, and the failure-mechanism work that turns into process improvement recommendations.
- Hands-on experience with TEM, SEM, FIB, and the characterization toolchain that turns a process anomaly into an actionable root cause.
- Fluency in French, German, or Dutch in addition to English — significant working advantage at partner sites.
- PhD or equivalent depth in materials science, applied physics, or semiconductor physics, with publications or patents that demonstrate ownership of a research or development program.
- Experience setting up SPC, yield analytics, or process-data feedback systems where the engineering decisions were yours, not handed to you.

Snowcap is a small, technically elite team running a non-CMOS process at partner foundries that have their own engineering culture, their own cadence, and their own constraints. You will spend significant time on partner sites in Europe, away from Jacksonville, often as the only Snowcap engineer in the room. The judgment calls are yours. The escalation path is short.
We are a flat, matrixed organization. You will work daily with fab technology, device physics, and the chip design team — directly, without layers. When a foundry data review surfaces a real risk to a process target, that conversation happens in the room that day, with the people who can act on it.
This role is on-site in Jacksonville when not at a partner site. Travel runs 20–40% to Europe. If you need a settled domestic role with minimal travel and a mature foundry engagement playbook to inherit, this is not the right fit. If you have wanted to own the technical relationship with a European foundry partner on a process that has not been run at scale anywhere else, you are in the right place.

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Full medical, dental, and vision · 401(k) · International travel covered · Relocation assistance available for candidates outside the area.
Base salary range is shown in USD and reflects the Jacksonville Metro labor market for this role, calibrated against NASA federal pay scale (Palm Bay locality) and comparable FL semiconductor / defense private-sector roles. Actual offer depends on experience, skills, and seniority, and is exclusive of equity, bonus, and benefits. Florida has no state income tax — relocating candidates should factor that into side-by-side comparisons with high-tax-state offers.
Based in Jacksonville Metro, FL · On-Site · 20–40% EU Travel.

Snowcap is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. (Edit in admin.)