Overview
At PDF Solutions, we are at the forefront of revolutionizing the semiconductor industry. Our cutting-edge technologies and data-driven solutions empower semiconductor manufacturers to achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency, quality, and innovation. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry, tackle complex challenges, and contribute to groundbreaking advancements that shape the future of technology. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, PDF Solutions also operates worldwide in Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
This is a specific role with in the Manager, Software Engineering category. We are seeking the manager to lead a forward deployment team who embed directly with semiconductor manufacturing and fabless customers to design, deploy, and iterate on our AI-powered analytics applications. This is a hybrid technical/people leadership role: part software engineering manager, part solutions architect, part customer-facing delivery lead. You will own the translation of LLM-based analytics, agentic workflows, and custom application logic into production tools running against live fab and test data.
The successful candidate will work closely with customers, sales, product management, R&D, applications engineering, and other technical teams to understand customer requirements, develop compelling technical solutions, and drive successful adoption of our products and solutions.
This is an ideal opportunity for a AI and/or semiconductor professional who enjoys solving complex technical problems, working directly with customers, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
Responsibilities
Translate ambiguous customer problems (yield excursions, test optimization, fab data correlation) into scoped application architectures using LLM-based analytics, agent frameworks, and existing platform APIs
Set technical standards for forward-deployed work: code quality, security/data-handling practices at customer sites, versioning, and handoff processes
Recruit, coach, and develop engineers who can operate independently in ambiguous, customer-facing technical environments
Client engagement
Provide technical support during the sales process, including discovery, qualification, technical presentations, demonstrations, proposals, and negotiations.
Qualifications
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Semiconductor Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
Domain familiarity with semiconductor manufacturing, test, or yield analytics - direct experience with fab data, wafer test data, or characterization workflows strongly preferred
Strong technical judgment on complexity analysis, data architecture, API design, and integration patterns for enterprise/fab environments
Pay Range
CAD $130,000.00 - CAD $180,000.00 /Yr.
