Your brilliance can ignite
the world of innovation.

Choose a career in creating semiconductor technologies
that are changing the world
Your brilliance can ignite
the world of innovation.
Choose a career in creating semiconductor technologies
that are changing the world
TSMC - Why work here

Why work here

What we are to the industry

At TSMC, brilliance can ignite a world of innovation and launch a promising future. The world’s most brilliant innovators entrust us to transform their ideas into world-changing products that impact millions of lives. As long as you have the same passion to pursue excellence like we do, you will find your fit.

When you are building high performance at the bleeding edge, it’s the leaning into the unknown with the point of view of technology evolution that brings out the true innovation, and that is something that TSMC is doing every day.
Renee James
Chairman, Founder & CEO, Ampere Computing
Once we wanted to bring ultrasound to a semiconductor chip, I knew TSMC would be the perfect partner.
Dr. Jonathan M. Rothberg
Founder and Chairman, Butterfly Networks
TSMC's collaboration with us was fundamental in enabling the success of this cross-die connectivity solution which is what enables the wafer scale engine.
Dhiraj Mallick
VP Engineering and Business Development, Cerebras Systems
TSMC is a great partner for Infineon in making Infineon's vision come true.
Reinhard Ploss
CEO, Infineon Technologies AG
By being there when we need them most, TSMC has earned the trust and respect of MediaTek many times over.
Ming-Kai Tsai
Chairman and CEO, MediaTek
TSMC is a truly great company, but also a gift to society.
Jen-Hsun Huang
Co-Founder and CEO, nVIDIA
I think, we've together, produced a lot of value in the world. I think it is not too bold to say that we changed the world in mobile industry through some of the technologies that Qualcomm has developed and TSMC's semiconductor capability.
Jim Thompson
EVP, Engineering, Qualcomm
That (truly strategic partnership) is what we've had from working together with TSMC for the past decade.
Victor Peng
President and CEO, Xilinx
We never, ever forget TSMC's diligent support. We rely 100% on TSMC.
Shigeki Fujii
Executive Officer, Yamaha Corporation
* Company names are in alphabetical order
TSMC - Brilliant together

Brilliant Together

A GREAT PLACE TO BUILD A LIFE-LONG CAREER

Become part of a unique team of technology enthusiasts joined in a common purpose – to unleash innovations that lead to sustainable economic growth and a smarter, better world. Nowhere is that opportunity greater than in the semiconductor industry.

As the world’s leading dedicated foundry, TSMC has over 55,000 employees across Asia, Europe and North America. Our employees' success is our most prized achievement, and we are proud so many of them have made TSMC the place to build their life-long careers.

A DIVERSE WORKFORCE

The best engineering breakthroughs come from a diversity of perspectives. At TSMC, you’ll enjoy a diverse and inclusive workplace with ambitious peers from different backgrounds, always pushing you toward your best work. Our inclusive approach to developing semiconductor talent ensures we attract the best engineering minds across the globe. We hire and promote without regard to gender, religion, race, nationality, or political affiliation because we respect differences, and believe that equal-opportunity employment strengthens our competitiveness.

TSMC is very supportive of promoting diversity. I don't feel my gender has limited my opportunities at all. We believe our accomplishments is the best proof of our merit.
Ching-Wen Cho
Director, Business Management
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If you're looking to contribute your best work to high integrity company, if you're looking to do good as well as do well, If you're a team player and a continuous learner, we want you at TSMC.
Rose Castanares
Vice President, Business Management
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I'm excited that we now have more women engineers in the Facilities department and attribute these changes to a desire from TSMC and WaferTech management to promote the value of a diverse workplace.
Lily Cormier
Facilities Engineer
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What makes our team work so well together is our diverse backgrounds, varying levels of experience, and our own approaches to solving problems.
Jonathon Lopez
Process Engineer
The different and diverse perspectives I've encountered have enhanced my learning and broadened my understanding of other engineering disciplines and how they all tie together in the manufacturing processes.
Geneva Ford
Process Engineer

STATE OF THE ART MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES

Our laser focus on entrepreneurial innovation has enabled TSMC to develop advanced manufacturing capabilities and pioneer some of the most important technological innovations in the world. Here, you will work with the latest tools and processes to enable new innovations in 5G communications, AI, IoT, high-performance computing, and autonomous cars, among many others.

5nm
N5 is TSMC's newest offering with extensive use of EUV. With the highest transistor density, it packs more computing power into less space. The smaller chip design also lowers power consumption, an important metric to AI and 5G applications from edge to center.
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7nm
TSMC's N7+ technology is the first commercially available EUV-enabled foundry manufacturing process technology in the world. Its success is a testament to TSMC's world-leading capabilities in EUV volume production and paves a solid foundation for more advanced technologies.
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EUV
EUV has been in the limelight in recent years for its' contribution to defect reduction at the most-advanced nodes. TSMC has demonstrated best-in-class EUV volume production maturity. In this video, you will witness the magic of EUV plasma during its 1 second journey.
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Intelligent Manufacturing
Intelligent Manufacturing
~100 systems work synergistically to keep our GIGAFAB® running at optimal condition. The state-of-art knowledge base encompasses learnings from over 30 years of manufacturing excellence, at your disposal to help your professional growth.

ONGOING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

Working at TSMC can be a life-changing experience, with an abundance of opportunities to further develop your talents. Our employees have many opportunities for international travel while training in Asia. You can also take advantage of our many joint programs with our many different higher-educational institutions.

You are encouraged to define your development goals and learn at your own pace. Our continuous investment in our people ensures that you will keep growing with the company.

Advanced studies
With TSMC' comprehensive training program, we can continue to learn new knowledge and practice lifelong learning. Thanks to TSMC's support, I received a master's degree in Management Science from National Chiao Tung University in 2020.
Wade Chang
Senior Specialist, Accounting Services
Personal Effectiveness Training
Continuous learning is like planting seeds in one's career, and the experience accumulated in work is like nutrients. Both are indispensable. The soft-skills courses provided by the learning center can help everyone communicate and cooperate effectively, so that a group becomes a team.
Chien-Hsin Ho
Principal Engineer, Metallization
New Manager Program
New Manager Program is a good package of introductory trainings for new managers and senior managers just joining TSMC. It helps us build the right mindset managing and leading the team in TSMC environment. I found it especially useful to get feedback from the instructor and fellow managers on issues I think might be hard to deal with.
C.H. Coco Tseng
Section Manager, Advanced Metrology

AN INSPIRING PLACE TO WORK

We are committed to providing you with the best working environment, with a comfortable balance between work and life. You’ll enjoy a wealth of amenities, including state-of-the-art facilities, awesome on-site conveniences, custom fitness, and warm and inspirational ambience. That’s because happier employees are more invested in the company's goals and work better together in teams.

You’ll also join a company with heart and purpose. TSMC stands out in the industry in its commitment to sustainability and ethical management. We infuse green management principles into all areas of business, from innovating sustainable products to building responsible supply chains. We also seek to help the underprivileged, creating a caring social culture through education and life.

BUILDING BRILLIANCE ONE MILESTONE AT A TIME

We pioneered the pure-play semiconductor foundry business model – making innovative chips for household-name brands – achieving many industry milestones along the way.

2020
  • World's 1st 5nm in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st 16nm RF for WiFi SoC production
  • World's 1st 7nm automotive platform
  • Foundry's 1st 28nm eFlash Automotive AEC-Q100 qualified
  • Foundry's 1st Cu bumping for 7nm automotive platform
2019
  • Foundry's 1st 16nm RF for 5G RF transceiver production
  • Foundry's 1st 22nm embedded RRAM technology qualified
  • Foundry's 1st 22nm embedded MRAM technology qualified
  • Fab 18 (Phase 1/2) - Located in Tainan Science Park, construction completes and operation begins
  • Fab 6 (Phase 2) - Construction completes and operation begins
2018
  • World's 1st 7nm in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st 40nm eFlash Automotive AEC-Q100 qualified
  • Foundry's 1st 40nm embedded RRAM technology qualified
  • Foundry's best 0.18µm BCD Gen3 and 0.13µm BCDplus in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st under panel optical fingerprint sensor technology in production
2017
  • Foundry's 1st 10nm in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st 12nm in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st 16nm automotive platform
  • Foundry's 1st 28nm RF for 5G mmWave devices production
  • Foundry's first advanced fan-out package (InFO_oS) for HPC applications in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st MEMS+CMOS monolithic pressure sensor technology in production
  • Advanced Backend Fab 5 (AP5) Located in Central Taiwan Science Park, construction completes and operation begins
  • Fab 16 (Phase 1) - TSMC Nanjing's first fab, construction completes and operation begins
2016
  • Foundry's first fully automated 300mm fan-out package (InFO PoP) fab in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st advanced 2.5D package (CoWoS) for logic + HBM2 in volume production
2015
  • Foundry's 1st 16nm in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st 40nm eFlash qualified
  • Foundry's leading 12-inch 0.13µm BCD in volume production
  • Advanced Backend Fab 3 (AP3) Located in Longtan Science Park, construction completes and operation begins
2014
  • Foundry's 1st 20nm in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st 55nm eFlash qualified
2013
  • Foundry's 1st 28nm RF for 4G RF transceiver production
  • Foundry's 1st Cu bumping in volume production
  • Foundry's leading 0.18µm BCD Gen2 in volume production
2012
  • Foundry's 1st advanced 2.5D package (CoWoS) for logic + logic in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st MEMS+CMOS monolithic accelerometer technology in production
2011
  • Foundry's 1st 28nm in volume production
  • Foundry's 1st 40nm RF for WiFi SoC production
  • Fab 15 (Phase 1) - Located in Central Taiwan Science Park, construction completes and operation
  • Fab 10 (Phase 2) - Construction completes and operation begins
2010
  • Foundry's 1st WLCSP in volume production
  • Advanced Backend Fab 2 (AP2) Located in Tainan Science Park, construction completes and operation begins
  • Fab 12 (Phase 5) - Construction completes and operation begins
  • Fab 14 (Phase 4) - Construction completes and operation begins

INDUSTRY HONORS

Our employees' brilliance has been affirmed by numerous awards and recognitions. We focus on providing the best possible silicon technologies so that our customers can focus on inventing the best possible products. We’re proud of the honors that our employees have helped us achieve over the years.

Awards/recognitions
Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the
19th
consecutive year
Certified by LEED
“Gold”
class certification –
Fab 12 P7 Manufacturing Facility
Fab 12 P7 Office Building
Fab 14 P7 Office Building
Fab 15 P5 Manufacturing Facility
Fab 15 P6 Manufacturing Facility
Fab 16 P1 Manufacturing Facility
Ranked by
Fortune
Global 500
Ranked by
Top Regarded Companies
Top
Regarded Companies
Top 100 Digital Companies
FTSE4Good
Emerging Index component
Ranked by
Rated an ESG
Leader
within the Semiconductor Industry
Ranked by
Global 100
Most Sustainable
Corporations
ISS-oekom
Prime
rated by ISS-oekom Corporate Rating
Ranked by
Global Top 100 Companies by market capitalization for the
7th
consecutive year
Ranked by
Corporate Social Responsibility Award – Large cap
1st
Place
Ranked by
Corporate Social Responsibility
Award
2019
Top 50
US Patent Assignees
ISS ESG
Prime
rated by ISS ESG Corporate Rating
Ranked by
Top 100
Global Technology Leaders
MSCI ACWI
ESG Leaders
Index component
Ranked by
The
World's 50
Most Innovative Companies
Customer market leadership
Storage
Gaming Console
GPU
WLAN
Application Processor
Bluetooth
TSMC - What we do to unleash innovation

What we do to unleash innovation

Technology Leadership

By any measure of the market, TSMC is at the center of today’s technology industry, producing 24% of the world semiconductor excluding memory output value. Our semiconductors are the digital engines inside nearly 11,000 electronic products created by over 500 companies, from coffee machines and smart phones to airliners and cloud data centers.

Come help spearhead some of the most important advances in semiconductor technology. You’ll be part of something special, unleashing innovations that lead to sustainable economic growth and a smarter, better world.

Forward looking research & pathfinding
We are living in an era where innovative ideas constantly challenge the status quo. In research and pathfinding, you will find our greatest and brightest minds, passionate about not only exploring different ideas, but also putting ideas into practice.
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Continued R&D Investment to Unleash IC Innovation
Thousands of TSMC researchers and scientists work together at our research centers around the globe to deliver the right technologies at the right time to unleash IC innovation. Our new R&D center, which opens in 2021, is designed with the capacity to house 8,000 professionals.
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Manufacturing Excellence

Our intelligent manufacturing capabilities leverage the latest manufacturing technologies like AI and machine learning to deliver the highest quality chips to customers on time. And we do it sustainably, embracing green manufacturing across operations. We implement continuous improvement projects in the areas of climate change, energy management, water management, waste management, and air pollution control.

Operational Excellence
We keep pushing the envelope to meet the industry's demands for the best quality, dependable capacity and delivery, performance optimization, and agile and intelligent operations.
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Craft of Making Semiconductors
Semiconductor manufacturing is a highly complex craft that needs to be precisely controlled, as it involves more than 1,000 steps and thousands of machines that collect millions to tens of millions pieces of data a day.
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Scale Matters
Scale matters in semiconductor manufacturing for production efficiency, yield learning, and so on. TSMC's 4th 12-inch GIGAFAB® Fab18, with clean room space equivalent to more than 45 World Cup soccer fields, is the world's first and only fab that enters 5nm volume production.
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Capacity Leadership
Global leading IC innovators rely on our unparalleled manufacturing excellence and production capacity to unleash their innovation. In 2019, we delivered more than 10,000 products for about 500 customers around the world.
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Green Manufacturing Initiative – Copper Recycling
Sustainable companies embed sustainable practices into the core of their company operations. Our green efforts have won global recognition, and TSMC has been a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the past 19 years.

The copper recycling initiative is a collaboration with our supplier to boost circular economy and build a green supply chain in Taiwan.
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Green Manufacturing Initiative – Water Recycling
Sustainable companies embed sustainable practices into the core of their company operations. Our green efforts have won global recognition, and TSMC has been a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the past 19 years.

Our pioneering and successful water recycling experiences will help accelerate the development of reclaimed water technologies in Taiwan.
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Customer trust

The biggest brands and savviest startups in technology – including Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors, OmniVision Technology, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics, and Xilinx – rely on TSMC to unleash their innovations to the world. And they continue to invent products with microprocessor engines that will soon be made by TSMC. These brands trust us not just for our manufacturing excellence, but also because of our sole focus on their customers’ products, never competing with a brand directly. Working with people who trust and rely on us to be part of their success brings great satisfaction.

TSMC Dedicated Foundry Business Model
An innovative business model that changed the landscape of the global semiconductor industry and enabled a growing new force for IC innovation.
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The Center of Everything at TSMC
Working together with IC innovators around the globe, we create centerpieces that push our society forward. At the heart of our collaboration is trust.
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TSMC Open Innovation Platform® Revolves Around Collaboration
A unique hub for early and close collaboration that forms the most powerful force to unleash innovation in the global semiconductor industry.
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TSMC - We’re Hiring in the U.S.

We’re Hiring in the U.S.

Jobs @ TSMC Arizona

Join a U.S. Team of Brilliant Innovators
Developing the Technologies
that will Power and Shape the Future

Working at TSMC will be a world changing experience. The foundry business model, pioneered by TSMC more than three decades ago, brought a sea change to technology innovation and how integrated circuits (ICs) and systems are designed and manufactured. As we break ground on our newest $12 billion semiconductor fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona, you’ll join brilliant engineers in pioneering the latest digital innovations that are changing the world. You’ll also gain the opportunity for international travel to Taiwan - the heart of Asia - for training before settling in the beautiful southwestern United States. And you will work with the latest tools and processes to enable new innovations in 5G communications, AI, IoT, high-performance computing, and autonomous cars, among many others.

If you are looking for a career full of challenges and sense of accomplishment, TSMC Arizona is definitely where you belong.

Why TSMC’s new Phoenix Foundry provides a compelling career path for aspiring engineers and technologists

Rick Cassidy, President and CEO, TSMC Arizona

Today’s engineers seek careers in a thriving technology industry. These passionate innovators tell us they aspire to more than, for example, advancing a technology sector and working on promising new inventions. They want their hard work to make a meaningful impact in an uncertain world.

Nowhere is that opportunity greater than in today’s semiconductor industry. And nowhere better can they make their mark in technologies that change the world than at TSMC’s $12 billion plus semiconductor fabrication (“fab”) plant in Phoenix, Arizona. TSMC Arizona will be the Company’s foundation for innovation in the U.S. for decades to come, enriched with the best engineering talent from top educational institutions in the U.S. and around the world.

Here, you will work with the world’s leading technology driving invention in endless ways. You, as our newest employee, will have the opportunity to train with other new colleagues in Taiwan, and then return to the beautiful southwestern U.S. and work in our newest fab to fulfill your career aspirations and our company’s mission.

You’ll never be bored in the ever-evolving semiconductor industry. Semiconductors are arguably the most transformative technology of the modern age. Anticipating the advances in semiconductor technology that we will deliver, what we can imagine today will be nothing compared to what will actually happen in the coming decades. Semiconductors are everywhere, providing essential intelligence for everything from the tiniest consumer electronics to life-saving medical devices to the International Space Station and missions to outer space, like Mars. When newly-trained engineers enter this field, their careers are off and running – fast.

At TSMC, innovation means more than new ideas, it means putting ideas into practice. Today, semiconductors manufactured by TSMC are the digital engines inside nearly 11,000 electronic products created by over 500 companies, from smart phones, airliners, cloud data centers to satellites and spacecraft. The biggest brands and savviest startups in technology - collaborate closely with TSMC to unleash their innovations.

The new TSMC Arizona will offer nearly limitless possibilities for discovery and problem-solving, ensuring a demanding yet fulfilling career in an industry evolving at supercomputer speed. I’ve spent my entire professional career in this industry – 23 of those years at TSMC. What we are about to build in Phoenix is the start of an incredible new chapter and it is my privilege to lead it.

I, along with over 1,600 of our North American employees, hope that you will consider TSMC Arizona as the place to thrive in your career.

Rick Cassidy
President and CEO,
TSMC Arizona

Together, we define the future!

If you are looking for a career full of challenges and sense of accomplishment, TSMC is definitely where you belong.

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