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Career Explorer · Electronics & Semiconductor Operations · Semiconductor Manufacturing
Entry: Semiconductor Manufacturing EngineerIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Semiconductor Manufacturing EngineerIC1
- Semiconductor Manufacturing EngineerIC2
- Senior Semiconductor Manufacturing EngineerIC3
- Staff Semiconductor Manufacturing EngineerIC4
- Principal Semiconductor Manufacturing EngineerIC5
- Senior Principal Semiconductor Manufacturing EngineerIC6
- Distinguished Semiconductor Manufacturing EngineerIC7
- Fellow, Semiconductor Assembly & TestIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
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