# Mechanical Design Engineer, Precision Systems

About fab2 The fab2 team can build anything. We design all the hardware and software needed to make chips and we make the fabs, tools, and components ourselves. We're looking for exceptional, hands-on people who can iterate to the limits of what's possible. fab2 was founded by Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller. Sam is best known for making chips in his garage, and Jim has been a leader in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years. About the team The Precision Team operates on the nanometer scale. We make lithography, metrology and motion systems that pattern, inspect and characterize our chips in order to push our process to lower nodes. About the role We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Mechanical Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for designing, prototyping, and building the mechanical systems in our semiconductor fabrication equipment, from stages and frames up to complete systems. This role is for someone who has internalized precision machine design as a discipline and has a proven track record of rapidly prototyping complex precision systems and advancing them to the next stage of production. Our philosophy is to get things built and tested in days or

- **Id**: 1309744
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fab2-mechanical-design-engineer-lithography-tools>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-29T15:51:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T04:40:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 195
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4569
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Semiconductor Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 2218927
- **Name**: fab2
- **Domain**: fab2.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fab2>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.538
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 72
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 105000
- **Max**: 195000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 195000

## Technologies

- **GD&T** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Photolithography** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 195

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T15:22:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 50; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 50 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.247
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 195
- **Expected fill days**: 72
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 195000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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