● Start from anywhere

Learn it. Prove it. Get hired. Your path into semiconductors.

Wherever you begin — no background, a degree, or years in the field — ChipReady AI takes you to a job in semiconductors, with a personalized path, an AI companion beside you the whole way, and employers waiting at the end.

  • 48role types, 15 areas
  • 6,100+open roles on the board
  • 20courses, entry to advanced(under development)
  • AIcompanion in every lesson
  • ✓verifiable certificates
  • %skills-matched jobs board
How it works

Five steps. One path. You are never on it alone.

  1. Tell us where you are
    Upload a résumé, or simply talk to the AI. It builds your profile from whatever you share.
  2. See where you could go
    Choose from 48 roles, cleanroom operator to systems architect. Get your readiness score and skill gaps.
  3. Learn on your own path
    A course sequence built just for you, with an AI coach in every lesson that observes how you’re doing.
  4. Earn proof that counts
    Verified quizzes and certificates you can share straight to your LinkedIn profile in a single click.
  5. Get seen and get hired
    A job board with live skills-match scores, and employers who can see exactly what you’ve completed.
Why this works

Three things a course catalog cannot do for you.

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A path, not a catalog.

You do not browse 800 courses hoping one of them is the right one. You get a single sequence, in order, built for the role you are aiming at.

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An AI that keeps you going.

People quit hard technical learning because of what happens inside them, not because the material is missing. Your companion notices, and moves you.

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Employers on the other end.

Every credential you earn shows up as a skills match against real openings — so the work you finish is visible to the people doing the hiring.

The platform

Built to carry people all the way through.

Finishing is rarely about how hard the material is. It’s about what happens inside a learner along the way: momentum, motivation, meaning and direction. ChipReady is built to notice all four, and to act on them.

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Momentum

The real reason people stop. The companion senses the stall as it forms, and steps in before it hardens.

02 / 04

Motivation

Learning runs on motivation, not willpower. The AI listens beneath the words and answers that first.

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Meaning

Nobody finishes what they cannot connect to. Every lesson ties back to the learner’s own destination.

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Direction

A skill with no destination dies. Every path here ends somewhere real — a role, a paycheck, a life.

Institution-grade, from day one

Employer portal

Employers log in, post roles, and see skills-matched candidates — with placement tracked from first interest through to hired.

Measured outcomes

Run cohorts with the AI on and off and compare completion side by side. Evidence for boards and funders, not anecdotes.

Security & privacy

Row-level security on every table, encryption in transit and at rest, and role-based access for learner, instructor, employer, partner and admin.

Open by design

SCORM and xAPI in and out, so a course built here runs on someone else’s LMS and theirs runs on ours.

The courses

Twenty courses, across the whole value chain.

Every course we run, grouped the way the industry is actually organised — from the first hour of theory to a months-long certification inside a fab. You will not take all of them. You take the ones your path calls for.

Start here

Introduction to the Semiconductor Industry

The industry, the physics and the vocabulary — from nothing.

3 courses
Introduction to the World of Semiconductor
2 hours · OnlineBeginner
Fundamentals of Semiconductor
2 hours · OnlineBeginner
IC Packaging Entry-Level Certification
3 hours · OnlineBeginner
Design

Fabless Semiconductor Design

Designing the chip: IC, VLSI, SoC and power.

3 courses
Advanced Semiconductor Design and Implementation
2 weeks · OnlineIntermediate
IC Design Advanced Certification
5 months · HybridAdvanced
System on Chip Design and Application
1.5 months · HybridAdvanced
Fabrication

Foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing

Making the wafer: deposition, planarisation, processing.

3 courses
Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) Techniques and Applications
2 weeks · OnlineIntermediate
Wafer Processing Technician Certification
3.5 months · OnsiteAdvanced
CVD and Dielectric Thin Film
2 months · HybridAdvanced
Integration

Integrated Device Manufacturer (IDM)

Pulling the process together end to end, and running it.

3 courses
Supply Chain and Operations Management in IDM
6 hours · OnlineBeginner
Process Integration
5 days · OnlineIntermediate
CMOS Technology Skill Test Certification
2.5 months · HybridAdvanced
Assembly & test

Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Testing (OSAT)

After the wafer: packaging, testing, quality and yield.

4 courses
Semiconductor Assembly Processes in OSAT
9.5 hours · OnlineBeginner
Advanced Semiconductor Packaging and OSAT Technologies
3 weeks · HybridAdvanced
Semiconductor Testing Techniques in OSAT
1 month · HybridAdvanced
Semiconductor Quality Assurance and Yield Optimization Certification
1 month · OnsiteAdvanced
Materials

Key Materials in Semiconductor Manufacturing

What everything is actually made of, and why it behaves that way.

4 courses
Materials Used in Semiconductor Fabrication
12 hours · OnlineBeginner
Metallization Techniques in Semiconductor Fabrication
8 days · OnlineIntermediate
Optical Properties of Materials in Semiconductor Fabrication
2 weeks · HybridIntermediate
Advanced Materials for High-Performance Semiconductors Certification
6 months · HybridAdvanced
The careers

48 role types across 15 areas of the industry.

Not job titles invented for a brochure — each is a kind of role the pathway engine plans against, drawn from live postings. Choose one and the platform shows you your readiness today and the exact sequence that closes the gap.

48 types of role, not a count of jobs — there are 6,100+ open positions on the board behind them right now.

Entry requirement
Seniority

See your readiness for any of them — free →

115,000+

new semiconductor jobs in the U.S. by 2030 — and roughly 67,000 of them risk going unfilled.

For universities and instructors

Host your courses here.

Author in the browser with Studio — no IT project, no vendor queue. Bring existing material or build it here.

Onboard a whole class with one link, then watch cohort analytics as the term runs: who is moving, who is stalling, who needs you this week.

Talk to us about hosting →
For employers

Hire people who finished the training.

Post roles and see skills-matched candidates who have actually completed the coursework behind the match — not keyword hits on a résumé.

Track placements from the same board, and see which credentials the people you hire actually hold.

Hire from ChipReady.org →
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