- Company: Diamondfoundry
- Location: Bay Area, California
- Salary: Pay not listed
Diamondfoundry at a glance
Diamond Foundry grows laboratory diamonds for jewelry and advanced materials. Recent coverage highlights diamond’s thermal conductivity for chip cooling and major public investment to scale microchip-related diamond manufacturing in Spain.
Reporting also cites roughly $18M ARR and a $1.8B valuation, alongside tech-community discussion of lab-grown diamonds and thermal applications.
Job Title: Senior Laser Process Engineer
Company: Diamondfoundry
Location: Bay Area, California
The Opportunity
Diamond Foundry Inc. is addressing the thermal limitations at the core of today's most exciting tech industries such as AI and cloud computing, electric-car power electronics, and 5G/6G wireless technology. We have achieved a groundbreaking milestone by producing the world's first single-crystal diamond wafers and are now dedicated to placing a diamond behind every chip. As a rapidly growing unicorn with profitable expansion, we've secured $515 million in funding and are executing a multi-billion dollar plan for one of the greenest forms of tech manufacturing: converting greenhouse gases into diamond wafers using zero-emission energy.
Your Responsibilities
- Deploy and optimize new and innovative laser machines at Diamond Foundry, to be used across various facilities.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with teams of mechanical, electrical, automation, optical, software, and systems engineers to enhance and deploy these technologies company-wide.
- Create standard procedures and manuals for process optimization, ongoing technical support, and improvement of laser and laser-associated processes.
Skills & Qualifications
- A strong background in laser technology and semiconductor manufacturing is essential.
- Experience with mechanical, electrical, automation, optical, software, and systems engineering is required.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally within a team environment.
- Proven track record of producing standard procedures and manuals for process optimization, ongoing technical support, and improvement in laser processes.
Working at Diamondfoundry
This role offers the chance to join an innovative company that is making significant strides in sustainable tech manufacturing. As a Senior Laser Process Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team working on groundbreaking projects with global impact.
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What people say about Diamondfoundry
Public discussion on Hacker News centers on technical and market themes rather than workplace reviews: diamond thermal conductivity for cooling chips, lab-made diamonds in retail (e.g. Pandora), and broader diamond-market dynamics. Treat these as product/market threads, not employee sentiment scores.
- Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling
- Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
- When Bitcoin miners take over a town
- Billions of dollars of unsold diamonds are piling up around the world
Recent news
- SETT formalizes an investment of €752 million in Diamond Foundry to develop microchip components in Spain - Capital Riesgo
- Diamond Foundry and SETT promote Spain's largest diamond chip plant with €2.4 billion - ICEX-Invest in Spain
- Diamond Foundry Revenue 2024: $18M ARR, $1.8B Valuation - GetLatka
- Quantum Brilliance Opens Commercial Quantum Diamond Foundry in Australia - The Quantum Insider
- Spain Invests $800m in Diamond Foundry Project - IDEX Online
Aggregated from public discussions and news; opinions are the authors’ own.
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California is a U.S. state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, and Nevada and Arizona to the east; it also shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With over 39 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the largest U.S. state by population and third-largest by
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National job openings rate: 4.6% — via BLS JOLTS
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.3% — via FRED
National quits rate: 1.9% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
Weekly initial unemployment claims: 208,000 — via FRED
GDP per capita in US: $90,027 — via World Bank
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Cost of living in California: 10.7% above the national average — via BEA
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Real GDP per capita in California: $86,110 — via FRED
Home prices in California (year over year): +1.8% — via FRED
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Walkability: Above average walkable — via EPA National Walkability Index
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Build the skills for this role
Useful strengths for this title: laser process development, DOE/process control, metrology, vacuum/plasma or crystal-growth awareness, and manufacturing transfer. No certification list or costs were provided in DATA.
Be ready to discuss laser–material interaction, process windows, SPC, failure analysis, and how you scaled a process from lab to line. Ask how Diamond Foundry splits jewelry vs. thermal/chip diamond work and what laser steps sit on the critical path for yield.
Strong fit if you have senior laser or photonics process experience in high-precision materials manufacturing and want Bay Area on-site work at a lab-diamond company expanding into electronics-related diamond applications.
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Listing facts
- Role Senior Laser Process Engineer
- Employer Diamondfoundry
- Location Bay Area, California
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted July 20, 2026
- Apply by August 20, 2026
- Country United States
- Overview Full job description on this page (287 words)
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- Hacker News — Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling
- Hacker News — Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
- Hacker News — When Bitcoin miners take over a town
- Hacker News — Billions of dollars of unsold diamonds are piling up around the world
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