Senior Photolithography Process Engineer

Business Unit

Cubic Defense Company Details:
We are seeking a highly-motivated, full-time Senior Photolithography Process Engineer onsite at our Durham, NC facility to lead the development, optimization, and scale-up of advanced photolithography-based additive manufacturing processes. This role will be responsible for driving process innovation, improving product quality and throughput, and supporting the transition of new technologies from research and development into production environments. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in photopolymerization, UV curing, lithographic exposure systems, process characterization, and statistical process control within a high-technology manufacturing environment.

Occasional travel may be required to visit suppliers.

Essential Functions:

• Develop, optimize, and sustain photolithography-based additive manufacturing processes to achieve quality, throughput, and cost objectives.
• Lead process development activities for new products, materials, and equipment platforms.
• Design and execute experiments to characterize and improve process capability, dimensional accuracy, and yield.
• Analyze complex process data using statistical methods and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Investigate and resolve process excursions, equipment issues, and manufacturing defects through structured root cause analysis.
• Define process windows, control plans, and manufacturing specifications.
• Collaborate with design, materials, equipment, production, and quality teams to ensure successful product launches and manufacturing scale-up.
• Evaluate and qualify new photopolymers, resins, exposure systems, and process technologies.
• Establish and maintain process monitoring metrics, statistical process control (SPC), and documentation.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and training to engineers and manufacturing personnel.

Job Location:

Durham, NC (onsite)

• Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 6+ years of experience in photolithography, additive manufacturing, semiconductor processing, microfabrication, or related advanced manufacturing technologies.
• Strong knowledge of photolithography, UV exposure systems, dry film manufacturing, film lamination and wet spinning, photoresists, and layer-by-layer manufacturing processes.
• Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and process capability analysis.
• Experience using data analysis tools such as JMP, Minitab, MATLAB, Python, or equivalent.

• Master's or Ph.D. degree in a relevant engineering or scientific field.
• Familiarity with cleanroom operations and semiconductor manufacturing methodologies.
• Demonstrated success in process development, troubleshooting, and manufacturing scale-up.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams and mentoring junior engineers.
• Understanding of quality systems and manufacturing standards in regulated industries. (AS9100 preferred)

Cubic Pay Range: $ - $ + benefits.

Worker Type:
Employee

• Cubic offers medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid disability (company continues full pay and benefits for up to six weeks), life insurance options, critical illness and accident coverages, Flexible Spending Accounts, a pre-paid legal plan, travel accident insurance, an award-winning well-being program which includes an employer-funded lifestyle spending account, up to six weeks of paid parental leave, and a 401k Retirement Plan with a company match.
• Employees can also take advantage of backup childcare, pet care, pet insurance, virtual tutoring, and a tuition reimbursement program.
• Many locations follow a 9/80 work schedule with time-off policies to help encourage employees to take time for rest and relaxation.
• Full-time salaried employees are eligible to participate in Cubic’s flexible time-off arrangement.
• Part-time and hourly employees accrue paid time-off (PTO)/Sick leave at a rate of 5.23 hours bi-weekly.
• Lastly, Cubic provides its employees 11 paid holidays throughout the…