Cohu
Test & Measurement Instruments · Semiconductor Equipment
Listed: NASDAQ: COHUTruth index B
86Open roles18 posted in 30 days+3 this week
$140kMedian advertised pay$102k – $170k−8% vs market
64 daysTime to fillmedian of 36 closed rolesmarket: 37 days
B 72/100Truth index
Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026Cohu is an American supplier of test and inspection equipment and services for back-end semiconductor manufacturing, including test handlers, automated test equipment, thermal subsystems, test contactors, vision inspection and MEMS test systems. Its customers are semiconductor makers and outsourced assembly and test providers worldwide, and it also develops AI-based process analytics software. The company is headquartered in Poway, California, United States.
It is hiring: 86 open roles, 18 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- Poway, United States
- Founded
- 1947
- Employees
- 1001-5000estimated range
- Listing
- NASDAQ: COHU
- Open roles
- 86 in 13 citiesAlion job postings
- Official records
- SEC CIK 1715359
- Website
- cohu.com
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 86 open roles at Cohu. Cohu is headquartered in Poway, United States. It was founded in 1947. The median pay stated in its open roles is $140k, across 28 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
72/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Support is the largest family, 33 of open roles.
18Posted in 30 days21% of open roles are fresh
1%Remote roles1 of 86
4Roles in AI5% of open roles
13Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
42 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 1.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand86
Pay65
Your chance60
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+8000%
Aug 10This week
Open roles a week: 1 then, 81 now
Are the postings real?
B
72 / 100Cohu scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 33 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 94% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 64 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale94%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 90%Master's Degree 5%Associate's Degree 2%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 2%High School Diploma 2%
Experience asked: 4.9 years on average, in 62 postings. 58 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Visa sponsorship in some rolesRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
What its postings pay, by level.
$140kMedianmarket estimate $152k
$102k – $170kTypical rangeUSD a year
$225kHighest paying roleAI - Principal Software Engineer
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $152k
$0$63k$125k$188k$250k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 13 cities in 6 countries.
13Cities
6Countries
CalambaBusiest site
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poway United States | Headquarters | 0 | ||
| Calamba Philippines | Plant / site | 25 | Industrial Engineering, Operations, Field & Service | 4% |
| San Diego United States | Plant / site | 18 | Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Backend | 22% |
| Norwood United States | Regional office | 7 | Hardware, Support, Management | 43% |
| Malacca Malaysia | Plant / site | 7 | Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Analytics | 14% |
| Singapore Singapore | Regional office | 3 | Support, Management, Industrial Engineering | 0% |
| Mabalacat Philippines | Not classified | 2 | Field & Service | 0% |
| Austin United States | Not classified | 2 | Support, Field & Service | 0% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #9 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Applied Materials | Santa Clara, United States | 1,616 | 5000+ | |
| 2 | KLA Corporation | Milpitas, United States | 1,003 | 5000+ | |
| 3 | Lam Research | Fremont, United States | 985 | 5000+ | |
| 4 | Teradyne | North Reading, United States | 437 | 5000+ | |
| 5 | Onto Innovation | Wilmington, United States | 156 | 1001-5000 | |
| 6 | FormFactor | Livermore, United States | 148 | 201-500 | |
| 7 | VIAVI Solutions | Chandler, United States | 138 | 1001-5000 | |
| 8 | Brooks Automation | Chelmsford, United States | 125 | 1001-5000 | |
| 9 | Cohu | Poway, United States | 86 | 1001-5000 |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Financials
1 public grant on record, $100k in total.
$100kPublic grants1 public grant
Money by yearUSD, rounds and grants
Largest rounds and grants
2025
$100k
Sources: funding announcements, grant and company registers
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Cohu over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
74Technologies in use
46Postings analysed
85/100Stack modernityAI adopter
LanguagesC++ 30%Python 24%C# 15%SQL 7%
Frameworks & librariesQt 4%UVM 4%OpenCV 2%TensorFlow 2%
DatabasesOracle 4%
Cloud & platformsWindows 15%Linux 11%Power BI 7%Unix 4%
AI & MLChatGPT 4%LLM 4%PEFT 2%
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Full Cohu tech stack74 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Oct 8
First role in Switzerland Development Project Manager
Aug 18
First role in Thailand Field Service Engineer
Jul 15
First role in Singapore Supplier Quality Engineer
Jun 12
First role in Japan Field Service Engineer
Mar 12
First role in United States Global Account Manager
Mar 12
First sales or marketing role Global Account Manager
Feb 3, 2025
Won a grant $100k · CORDIS
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
top 2%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Sep 102026
News · seekingalpha.com
Aug 22026
News · YahooFinance
Cohu stock has delivered a strong 150.9% return over the past year, yet the valuation checks are split, with the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) intrinsic value suggesting the shares…
Jul 32026
News · The Motley Fool
This semiconductor equipment provider, fresh off a triple-digit annual return, reported a notable insider sale in the latest SEC filing.
Jun 242026
News · AOL.com
This semiconductor equipment provider, up over 170% in the past year, just reported a notable insider sale amid ongoing strong performance.
Feb 52026
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