Semiconductor jobs for process, yield, packaging and manufacturing engineers in Japan

234 open roles for process, yield, packaging and manufacturing engineers at 35 companies in Japan. None of them states a citizenship or security-check demand. 34 mention relocation support.

Rebuilt 27 Oct 2026
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234
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35
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$77k

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Renesas Electronics

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renesas.com · HQ: Tokyo, Japan · Automotive Components · Analog & Power Semiconductors · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · 5000+ employees · Est. 2003 · Trust B · Hiring 652, 76 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan · Automotive Components · Analog & Power Semiconductors · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · 5000+ employees · Est. 2003 · Trust B · Hiring 652, 76 new
Renesas Electronics is a Japanese semiconductor company formed in 2003 when Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric combined their chip divisions, later absorbing NEC Electronics as well. It is one of the largest suppliers of microcontrollers in the world and holds a particularly strong position in automotive silicon, where its R-Car processors and body and powertrain controllers sit inside a large share of vehicles built globally. It has spent the past decade buying into analog and connectivity through Intersil, IDT, Dialog and Altium, broadening from bare microcontrollers into complete embedded systems for industrial and internet of things customers.
Bunsei Kure · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Tetsuya Tsurumaru · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Shuhei Shinkai · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Hidetoshi Shibata · President & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 1 day ago Likely open · 63%

MCU HW Architect/Engineer

≈ $46k – $107k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (Kodaira, Japan) · Full-Time · Senior · Japanese
Agile
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago Likely open · 63%

Fab Technician 3

≈ $27k – $81k per year (Estimated) · Middle · In office (Hitachinaka, Japan) · Full-Time · Junior · Japanese
Agile
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Lumentum

lumentum.com
lumentum.com · HQ: San Jose, United States · Optical Communications · Lasers & Laser Systems · Optics & Photonic Components · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2015 · Trust B · Hiring 196, 14 new
HQ: San Jose, United States · Optical Communications · Lasers & Laser Systems · Optics & Photonic Components · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2015 · Trust B · Hiring 196, 14 new
Lumentum is an American photonics company separated from JDS Uniphase in 2015 that makes the optical components carrying data through networks and between data centre systems. Its business has been transformed by artificial intelligence build-out: the optical transceivers and laser components that connect accelerators inside a cluster are now in far shorter supply than the networking equipment they plug into. Headquartered in San Jose and listed on Nasdaq, it also supplies industrial and consumer lasers, and it acquired Cloud Light in 2023 specifically to add high-speed transceiver manufacturing capacity for cloud customers.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 10 min ago 2 days ago Likely open · 63%

Engineer for SAG ICP dry etching process

≈ $23k – $56k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (Sagamihara, Japan) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Junior · Japanese: C1 · English
Photolithography
Plasma Etch
PVD
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Verified live · 10 min ago 6 days ago Likely open · 63%

Laser Semiconductor Engineer

In office (Sagamihara, Japan) · Master's Degree · Full-Time · Japanese: C1 · English: B1
Microsoft Excel
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ti.com · HQ: Dallas, United States · Consumer Electronics · Electrical & Electronic Engineering · Email Security · Semiconductor Manufacturing · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · Analog & Power Semiconductors · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1930 · NASDAQ: TXN · Trust B · Hiring 724, 64 new
HQ: Dallas, United States · Consumer Electronics · Electrical & Electronic Engineering · Email Security · Semiconductor Manufacturing · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · Analog & Power Semiconductors · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1930 · NASDAQ: TXN · Trust B · Hiring 724, 64 new
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor design and manufacturing company that develops analog chips and embedded processors. The firm serves tens of thousands of customers worldwide, helping them create advanced electronics for industrial, automotive, personal electronics, and enterprise markets. Through continuous innovation in semiconductor technology, the corporation plays a pivotal role in shaping modern electronic systems and power management solutions.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 2 days ago Likely open · 63%

Packaging Engineer - HV GaN module

Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Japan) · Master's Degree · Senior · Japanese: C1 · English: C1
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 2 days ago Likely open · 63%

Packaging Engineer - Inductor and Power module

Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Japan) · Master's Degree · Senior · Japanese: C1 · English: C1
ANSYS
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KLA Corporation

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kla.com · HQ: Milpitas, United States · Semiconductor Equipment · 5000+ employees · Est. 1975 · Trust A · Hiring 855, 59 new
HQ: Milpitas, United States · Semiconductor Equipment · 5000+ employees · Est. 1975 · Trust A · Hiring 855, 59 new
KLA is an American supplier of process control and yield management equipment for semiconductor manufacturing, formed by the 1997 merger of KLA Instruments, founded in 1975, and Tencor Instruments. Its tools inspect wafers, reticles and packaging for defects and measure critical dimensions and overlay, giving chipmakers the feedback they need to keep yields acceptable at advanced nodes. Headquartered in Milpitas, California and listed on Nasdaq, it holds a dominant share of the wafer inspection market and also supplies specialty process and electronic assembly equipment.
Rick Wallace · Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Robert Anderson · Co-founder · founder
Kenneth Levy · Co-founder · founder
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Verified live · 6 hours ago 5 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Engr, Cust Supp 1

≈ $34k – $75k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (Yokkaichi, Japan) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Middle · Japanese: C2 · English
Machine Learning
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MACH Application Development Engineer

≈ $25k – $62k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (Yokohama, Japan) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Junior
Machine Learning
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Micron Technology

micron.com
micron.com · HQ: Boise, United States · Enterprise Storage Systems · Semiconductor Manufacturing · Memory & Storage Chips · 5000+ employees · Est. 1978 · NASDAQ: MU · Trust A · Hiring 2546, 94 new
HQ: Boise, United States · Enterprise Storage Systems · Semiconductor Manufacturing · Memory & Storage Chips · 5000+ employees · Est. 1978 · NASDAQ: MU · Trust A · Hiring 2546, 94 new
Micron Technology is an American semiconductor company founded in Boise, Idaho in 1978 and one of only a handful of manufacturers of both DRAM and NAND flash memory. It designs and fabricates memory and storage products used in data centres, personal computers, smartphones, cars and industrial equipment, and sells them under the Micron and consumer-facing Crucial brands. High-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators has become the fastest-growing part of the business, and the company operates fabrication and assembly sites across the United States and Asia.
Mark Murphy · Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Sanjay Mehrotra · Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Joe Parkinson · Co-Founder & former Chief Executive Officer · founder
Ward Parkinson · Co-Founder · founder
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5 days ago Likely open · 63%

IPDev_Analog_Design2027

≈ $41k – $114k per year (Estimated) · In office (Hashimoto, Japan) · Full-Time
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In office (Hiroshima, Japan) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Japanese: C1 · English: B2
Anthropic
Claude
Copilot
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ASML

asml.com
asml.com · HQ: Veldhoven, Netherlands · Semiconductor Equipment · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1984 · Trust B · Hiring 625, 75 new
HQ: Veldhoven, Netherlands · Semiconductor Equipment · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1984 · Trust B · Hiring 625, 75 new
ASML is a semiconductor equipment manufacturer specializing in high-precision photolithography systems, computational lithography software, and metrology and inspection solutions. Headquartered in Veldhoven, Netherlands, the enterprise is the world’s sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines - including next-generation High-NA EUV platforms - alongside a broad portfolio of deep ultraviolet (DUV) systems. Through its global network of R&D centers, manufacturing facilities, and field support services across Europe, Asia, and North America, the organization enables global semiconductor foundries and chipmakers to fabricate advanced logic and memory microchips.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 5 days ago Likely open · 57%

EUV Field Service Engineer (Kumamoto jasm)

≈ $37k – $102k per year (Estimated) · In office (Kumamoto, Japan) · Full-Time
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 21 days ago Long shot · 19%

Upgrade Install and Relocation System Install Engineer Source EUV

In office (Hiroshima, Japan) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · GMP / cleanroom · Japanese: B1 · English: C1
Photolithography
EUV
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Skills these roles ask for

Photolithography 23Agile 23Python 20Statistical Process Control 16FMEA 14PVD 13Microsoft Excel 12Microsoft Office 10Plasma Etch 10HPC 8TCAD 8EUV 8Machine Learning 8C++ 6Linux 5Tableau 5

Where the roles are

Hiroshima 94Tokyo 38Yokohama 19Kumamoto 14Kodaira 13Sagamihara 11Yokkaichi 9Aizuwakamatsu 6Osaka 4Nagasaki 4

Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

234 of the 234 roles here state no citizenship or security-check demand. A role that does says so in its advert, and the card marks it.

Which companies hire most chip and hardware engineers?

Micron Technology (84), Renesas Electronics (33), Applied Materials (24), ASML (16), Lumentum (14).

Which roles count here?

Every hardware, chip design, embedded, electrical and semiconductor process role at any employer, and the engineering, science, technician and IT roles of the semiconductor companies - chip designers, fabs and foundries, equipment makers, photonics. Their sales, finance and office roles are left out.

How fresh is this?

Every role is re-checked on the employer's own careers board at least every 48 hours, and the page is rebuilt every night.

Source: 234 live postings on employers' careers boardsUpdated 27 Oct 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0