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Fab2

Mass-produces compact semiconductor fabrication fabs

Infrastructure Engineer

Full-Time
$140k - $200k/yr+ Equity
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: Austin, TX, USA
In Person
DevOps & InfrastructurePlatform Engineering
H1B Sponsorship Available

About the job

Requirements
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production systems.
  • Experience with backend, infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering.
  • Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort working below cloud abstractions.
  • Ability to reason across compute, networking, storage, deployment, and data systems.
  • Ability to use artificial intelligence coding tools effectively while independently reading, writing, and debugging code.
Responsibilities
  • Design and operate the infrastructure that runs software across the fab.
  • Manage the fleet of on-premises servers, virtual machines, and computers connected directly to fab equipment.
  • Own core networking and services across storage, service discovery, authentication, secrets, and deployment.
  • Build observability for traditional system metrics and high-frequency telemetry from fab equipment.
  • Automate operating system imaging, software builds, deployments, and infrastructure provisioning.
  • Create internal infrastructure and developer tools that make it easy for engineers to ship and operate software.
  • Design networking, replication, and backups that can scale as more fabs are built.
Desired Qualifications
  • Founding engineer, chief technology officer, or early-stage startup background.
  • Experience with bare-metal or on-premises infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with developer platforms, deployment systems, or observability tooling.
  • Hands-on work with high-throughput telemetry or data systems.
  • Exposure to robotics, industrial automation, semiconductor equipment, or artificial intelligence infrastructure.
  • Experience building software for regulated environments.

About the company

Fab2 designs, manufactures, and licenses compact, modular semiconductor fabrication facilities (fabs) that are mass-produced to enable small-scale, fast, and low-cost chip production. Its core offering, the so-called

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$500M

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • The September 9, 2026 $500M Series A gives Fab2 deep cash for expansion.
  • Austin filings show $3.9M warehouse renovations finishing February 2027, signaling active deployment.
  • Texas relocation concentrates hiring and manufacturing near cheaper space, permitting, and industrial policy support.

What critics are saying

  • September 2026's $3.7B valuation prices enormous execution; missed milestones crush follow-on financing.
  • Fab2 still lacks disclosed revenue, yields, customer volume, or shipped-fab counts as of September 2026.
  • Competing 300mm foundries and captive fabs can outspend Fab2 before its Texas buildout scales.

What makes Fab2 unique

  • Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller combine chipmaking hardware, fab automation, and Studio EDA.
  • Fab2's July 2026 rebrand centers a 'fab fab' that manufactures mini-fabs in-house.
  • Austin, Lockhart, and San Francisco sites create an integrated prototype-to-tooling loop.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Commuter Benefits

Professional Development Budget

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Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

-4%
Frontrun
Sep 9th, 2026
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