# Staff Process Engineer, Wafer Lithography

**Company**: Magic Leap
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

A new paradigm of computing

At Magic Leap, you can explore innovative solutions and use your talents to solve real-world problems. Working alongside industry experts, you can grow your skills while helping make our technology available to millions of people as a partner in the AR ecosystem.

The opportunity

As a Staff Lithography Engineer on our Optical Process Engineering team, you will help develop and scale advanced lithography processes used in next-generation optical waveguide manufacturing for smart glasses. You’ll work cross-functionally with R&D, Equipment Engineering, Manufacturing, Metrology, and Quality teams to transition new technologies into high-volume production environments.

This is a highly visible, hands-on role focused on process development, yield improvement, process transfer, and manufacturing scale-up within a cleanroom semiconductor-style environment.

Location:

This position requires being fully onsite at our Austin, TX facility to support hands-on collaboration and daily operations. Relocation assistance is available for non-local candidates.

## Responsibilities

- Lead lithography process development, optimization, and sustainment for wafer-based manufacturing processes

- Drive process control, yield improvement, and tool performance using DOE, SPC, data analysis, and structured root cause methodologies

- Support transfer of processes from R&D/NPI into manufacturing, including process qualification activities such as IQ, OQ, PQ, and capability studies

- Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Equipment Engineering, and vendors to troubleshoot issues and improve process stability

- Develop manufacturing documentation including SOPs, work instructions, process standards, and control plans

- Analyze process and metrology data to improve optical quality, throughput, OEE, and defect reduction

- Lead root cause investigations using structured problem-solving methodologies such as Six Sigma and DMAIC

- Support implementation of advanced process analytics, automation, SPC strategies, OCAPs, and PFMEA activities

- Collaborate with distributed R&D and manufacturing teams, including support for process transfer activities between facilities

- Mentor engineers and technicians while helping scale robust, production-ready manufacturing processes

## Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience in nanofabrication, wafer lithography, semiconductor processing, or related microfabrication environments

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field

- Hands-on cleanroom wafer processing experience within semiconductor or optical device manufacturing

- Experience with process development, recipe optimization, yield improvement, and manufacturing scale-up

- Strong understanding of SPC, DOE, process capability analysis, and structured root cause methodologies

- Experience troubleshooting complex process and equipment issues in high-volume manufacturing environments

- Solid foundation in plasma physics and plasma-surface interactions related to etch or lithography processes

## It's exciting if you also have

- M.S. or Ph.D. in a related engineering discipline

- Experience with wafer-level optics, photonics, or advanced optical manufacturing

- Familiarity with JMP, statistical analysis tools, FDC, or process automation systems

- Metrology experience using SEM, TEM, or related characterization tools

- Six Sigma certification

- Experience supporting new tool installs, vendor qualifications, or manufacturing scale-up initiatives

- Experience working in fast-paced or evolving manufacturing environments

## Additional Requirements

- Occasional travel, including trips to Plantation, FL for cross-site collaboration

- Approximately 10% travel required

## Skills

### Required
- nanofabrication
- wafer lithography
- semiconductor processing
- microfabrication
- process development
- recipe optimization
- yield improvement
- manufacturing scale-up
- SPC
- DOE
- process capability analysis
- structured root cause methodologies
- plasma physics
- plasma-surface interactions
- root cause investigations
- Six Sigma
- DMAIC
- advanced process analytics
- automation
- SPC strategies
- OCAPs
- PFMEA activities

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