Process Engineer
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Wolfspeed seeks a hands-on Process Engineer to address technical challenges in semiconductor manufacturing. The role focuses on sustaining and improving fab processes and tool utilization, installing and characterizing new tools, supporting product and process rollouts, and monitoring work-in-process trends. Candidates need hands-on semiconductor tool experience and user-level experience with fab-wide systems; semiconductor process understanding is strongly desired.
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Durham, North Carolina
Full time
26-972
At Wolfspeed, we do amazing things in a human way.
We know that the achievements of our organization are due to the passion, hard work and creativity of our employees. We celebrate different perspectives to foster excellence across our organization, and our goal is to make diversity a foundation of what we do. We are proudly building an environment where you can bring your authentic self to work.
Enjoy doing things that people say can’t be done? Innovation is at the center of everything we do.
Hate red tape? We remove roadblocks instead of creating them.
Working parent? We provide paid parental leave.
Student? We offer continuing education assistance.
Looking for community? There are many ways to get involved, from Employee Resource Groups to local outreach.
Here’s the Gist:
Wolfspeed is looking for a resourceful, hands-on, problem-solving Process Engineer with the capacity to quickly grasp and resolve a wide range of technical challenges. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast paced, deadline-oriented atmosphere and be capable and willing to work in a team of scientists, engineers and technicians. Successful candidates must have hands-on experience in setting up, operating, and troubleshooting semiconductor processing tools such as scrubbers, defect inspection, metrology tools and sorters. User level experience of fab-wide systems (SPACE, CMMS, MES) is required. Semiconductor processes understanding is strongly desired. Candidates with excellent communication, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills will be given the utmost priority.
The Day-to-Day:
Lead multi-functional projects and teams focusing on sustaining and improving critical fab processes and tools utilization.
Lead and participate in new tools installations, designs, and characterizations.
Provide expertise for new products and processes rollouts.
Monitor daily WIP charts and respond to trend shifts/abnormal processing events.
Establish and leverage relationships across various fab teams.
Strategize and prioritize own work and work of reporting technicians.
This Job is Right for You if You Have (Minimum Requirements):
Education: BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Sciences or related field.
Strong decision-making ability based on timely and thorough data analysis
Able to adapt to a fast-changing, high volume manufacturing environment
Excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills
To put it legally – Wolfspeed is an equal opportunity employer.
We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation and other protected status as required by law.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Wolfspeed is a powerhouse semiconductor company focused on silicon carbide and GaN technologies.
After more than thirty years of forging new technology adoption and transformation, our Wolfspeed® power and radio frequency (RF) semiconductors are leading the industry through unrivaled expertise and capacity.
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How this job compares
Set against the 3,193 open Process Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- North Carolina median$87–134K/yr57 salary ranges
- US median$40–50/hr255 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 124 open Process Engineer jobs in North Carolina and 3,193 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- Corning Incorporated15 open
- Eaton Corporation10 open
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- Experience
- Process Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (2,546 postings).
- Education
- 1,954 of the 3,193 open Process Engineer jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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