Architect Visa Sponsorship Jobs in Oregon
Architect visa sponsorship jobs in Oregon are concentrated in Portland, where firms like ZGF Architects, SERA Architects, and Mackenzie actively hire international talent. The state's growing healthcare, higher education, and urban development sectors drive steady demand for licensed architects, making Oregon a realistic target for H-1B visa and O-1 visa candidates.
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FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM), is a leading provider of essential test and measurement technologies along the full semiconductor product life cycle — from characterization, modeling, reliability, and design debug, to qualification and production test. Semiconductor companies rely upon FormFactor’s products and services to accelerate profitability by optimizing device performance and advancing yield knowledge. The company serves customers through its network of facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Rooted in our core values — Focus on the Customer, Ownership & Accountability, Respectfully & Effectively Communicate, and Motivate & Develop People — we foster an environment where diverse perspectives are not only welcomed but celebrated. Everyone can make an impact here. Whether it's improving products, supporting customers, or positively influencing peers and the community, the contributions of our people matter.
Shift:
The regular hours for this position are day shift.
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Manufacturing Applications Architect for INFICON FPS (Factory Productivity Suite) and Smart factory Solutions who will be responsible for designing, integrating, and optimizing digital manufacturing systems centered around INFICON’s Factory Digital Twin technology. This role will lead architectural design for highly scalable, data-driven smart factory ecosystems used within semiconductor manufacturing environments.
The ideal candidate collaborates closely with Operations, Engineering, IT, and MES stakeholders to deliver end-to-end architectures that leverage real-time data, advanced analytics, and optimization engines that enable industry-leading cycle-time reduction, throughput improvements, and predictive operational insights.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical architect and subject-matter expert for INFICON FPS Digital Twin for developing a Smart factory to visualize and simulate the real-time factory conditions.
- Drive ETL architecture and execution from MES (PROMIS) and equipment management systems (like XSite) and manufacturing databases into the FPS Data Warehouse, ensuring data accuracy, availability, and performance.
- Support application upgrades, system performance tuning and resolve complex issues.
- Provide hands-on expertise in implementing configuring and supporting the PROMIS Manufacturing Execution System MES within a semiconductor fabrication facility.
- Act as a trusted technical partner to IT stakeholders, Manufacturing Operations Managers, Engineers, and Equipment Engineers.
- Drive automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across manufacturing systems and reporting platforms.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing systems, factory automations, with senior architect and technical responsibility.
- Proven hands-on experience with INFICON FPS Digital Twin, factory scheduling systems, and manufacturing reporting platforms.
- Strong expertise in ETL and data integration from MES, XSite and other manufacturing databases into data warehouses.
- Deep expertise in PROMIS MES implementation, including flows, steps, branching, routing logic, and configuration of system parameters, workflows, and user interfaces.
- Experience supporting equipment maintenance management systems.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex system issues in high-availability fab environments.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in database management and SQL.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, production-critical environment with shifting priorities.
- Highly motivated, self-driven, and solution-oriented mindset.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, automation, and knowledge sharing across teams.
Skills:
Digital Twin, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Manufacturing Systems Development, MES Integration, PROMIS, Smart Factory
Education & Experience:
Minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience; or equivalent experience | Required
Pay Range:
$155,900.00 - $204,645.00
Pay Range Explained:
This role in Portland, Oregon pays between $155,900.00 and $204,645.00 per year, depending on your experience, skills, and background. Pay may vary in other locations. We offer a full benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, a 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), and paid time off. You’ll also be eligible for quarterly profit-sharing bonuses and flexible spending or savings accounts.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
FormFactor is an equal opportunity employer. FormFactor complies with all national, state, and local laws that seek to promote equal opportunities for any applicant or employee without regard to age, race, color, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, military service, or any other legally protected characteristics. These protections apply to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, and compensation.
For roles that are designated as remote-eligible, employees cannot be located in: AL, AK, AR, DE, GA, HI, IL, IA, LA, ME, MD, MS, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, WV, WI, WY. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. A role is remote-eligible only when it is listed as "Remote" in the job location.
Forming Our Future together
FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM), is a leading provider of essential test and measurement technologies along the full semiconductor product life cycle — from characterization, modeling, reliability, and design debug, to qualification and production test. Semiconductor companies rely upon FormFactor’s products and services to accelerate profitability by optimizing device performance and advancing yield knowledge. The company serves customers through its network of facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Rooted in our core values — Focus on the Customer, Ownership & Accountability, Respectfully & Effectively Communicate, and Motivate & Develop People — we foster an environment where diverse perspectives are not only welcomed but celebrated. Everyone can make an impact here. Whether it's improving products, supporting customers, or positively influencing peers and the community, the contributions of our people matter.
Shift:
The regular hours for this position are day shift.
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Manufacturing Applications Architect for INFICON FPS (Factory Productivity Suite) and Smart factory Solutions who will be responsible for designing, integrating, and optimizing digital manufacturing systems centered around INFICON’s Factory Digital Twin technology. This role will lead architectural design for highly scalable, data-driven smart factory ecosystems used within semiconductor manufacturing environments.
The ideal candidate collaborates closely with Operations, Engineering, IT, and MES stakeholders to deliver end-to-end architectures that leverage real-time data, advanced analytics, and optimization engines that enable industry-leading cycle-time reduction, throughput improvements, and predictive operational insights.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical architect and subject-matter expert for INFICON FPS Digital Twin for developing a Smart factory to visualize and simulate the real-time factory conditions.
- Drive ETL architecture and execution from MES (PROMIS) and equipment management systems (like XSite) and manufacturing databases into the FPS Data Warehouse, ensuring data accuracy, availability, and performance.
- Support application upgrades, system performance tuning and resolve complex issues.
- Provide hands-on expertise in implementing configuring and supporting the PROMIS Manufacturing Execution System MES within a semiconductor fabrication facility.
- Act as a trusted technical partner to IT stakeholders, Manufacturing Operations Managers, Engineers, and Equipment Engineers.
- Drive automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across manufacturing systems and reporting platforms.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing systems, factory automations, with senior architect and technical responsibility.
- Proven hands-on experience with INFICON FPS Digital Twin, factory scheduling systems, and manufacturing reporting platforms.
- Strong expertise in ETL and data integration from MES, XSite and other manufacturing databases into data warehouses.
- Deep expertise in PROMIS MES implementation, including flows, steps, branching, routing logic, and configuration of system parameters, workflows, and user interfaces.
- Experience supporting equipment maintenance management systems.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex system issues in high-availability fab environments.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in database management and SQL.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, production-critical environment with shifting priorities.
- Highly motivated, self-driven, and solution-oriented mindset.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, automation, and knowledge sharing across teams.
Skills:
Digital Twin, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Manufacturing Systems Development, MES Integration, PROMIS, Smart Factory
Education & Experience:
Minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience; or equivalent experience | Required
Pay Range:
$155,900.00 - $204,645.00
Pay Range Explained:
This role in Portland, Oregon pays between $155,900.00 and $204,645.00 per year, depending on your experience, skills, and background. Pay may vary in other locations. We offer a full benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, a 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), and paid time off. You’ll also be eligible for quarterly profit-sharing bonuses and flexible spending or savings accounts.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
FormFactor is an equal opportunity employer. FormFactor complies with all national, state, and local laws that seek to promote equal opportunities for any applicant or employee without regard to age, race, color, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, military service, or any other legally protected characteristics. These protections apply to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, and compensation.
For roles that are designated as remote-eligible, employees cannot be located in: AL, AK, AR, DE, GA, HI, IL, IA, LA, ME, MD, MS, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, WV, WI, WY. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. A role is remote-eligible only when it is listed as "Remote" in the job location.
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Which companies sponsor visas for architects in Oregon?
Portland-based firms are the most active sponsors. ZGF Architects, SERA Architects, Mackenzie, BORA Architecture, and Hennebery Edelen have histories of H-1B filings for architectural roles. Larger national firms with Oregon offices, including Perkins&Will and Jacobs, also sponsor international architects. Public sector employers, such as Oregon Health and Science University and Portland Public Schools, occasionally sponsor for in-house design positions.
Which visa types are most common for architect roles in Oregon?
The H-1B is the most common visa for architects in Oregon because architecture meets the specialty occupation standard, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in architecture. The O-1A is an option for architects with significant recognition, awards, or published work. International architects who hold licensure and a qualifying degree may also explore the EB-1 or EB-2 NIW pathways for permanent residence, though those require demonstrated exceptional ability or national interest justification.
How to find architect visa sponsorship jobs in Oregon?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for roles where employers have demonstrated sponsorship willingness, so you can search architect positions in Oregon without sifting through listings that exclude visa holders. On Migrate Mate, you can narrow results to Oregon and architectural job titles, which surfaces firms currently hiring internationally. Pairing that with direct research into Portland-area firms that have filed H-1B Labor Condition Applications gives a clearer picture of who is actively sponsoring.
Which cities in Oregon have the most architect visa sponsorship jobs?
Portland accounts for the large majority of architect sponsorship activity in Oregon, driven by its concentration of mid-size and large design firms and ongoing urban development. Eugene has a smaller but active architecture community tied to University of Oregon projects and regional public works. Bend has seen growth in design demand as the city expands, though firm size there tends to be smaller, which can affect sponsorship capacity.
Are there any Oregon-specific considerations for architects seeking visa sponsorship?
Oregon requires architects to obtain state licensure through the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying before practicing independently, separate from any federal visa requirement. H-1B petitions for architect roles must reflect prevailing wage levels set by the Department of Labor for the Portland or relevant Oregon metropolitan area. The University of Oregon's architecture program creates a pipeline that some Oregon firms already use to hire and sponsor internationally educated graduates.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored architect jobs in Oregon?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.