Foundry Technology Engagement Engineer

# Foundry Technology Engagement Engineer Snowcap's chips are fabricated on superconducting NbTiN process at European foundry partners. You will be the engineer on the ground — translating our device requirements into process specs, watching real runs, and closing the loop between what comes off the wafer and what our physics team designed.

Team Fab Technology Employment Full -time

Posted

May 2026

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About the Role 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.
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What You'll Own
- 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.
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What We Need to See
- 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…