How to Apply to Everlight Electronics

9 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 1 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Apply through 104人力銀行 at company id fuu0th4 — Everlight does not run a Western-style careers portal and the global English site has no /careers page.
  • Submit a Traditional Chinese resume as primary; English as a supplement for international-facing roles only.
  • Mandarin is required for HQ engineering and operations; overseas subsidiaries handle their own English-default hiring locally.
  • Compensation anchors on Taiwan listed-manufacturer medians plus 員工分紅 (annual profit-sharing); equity in the Western sense is uncommon.
  • Automotive LED (AEC-Q102, IATF 16949) and IR/optical sensor packaging are the fastest-growing groups and the strongest hiring lanes for 2025 to 2026.
  • Expect on-site interviews at the Shulin HQ, business-formal dress, and a deliberate two-to-six-week timeline that respects Taiwan manufacturing and audit cycles.
  • Cross-strait operating experience and willingness to travel to Suzhou and Wuxi are strong differentiators for senior roles.

About Everlight Electronics

Everlight Electronics (億光電子工業股份有限公司, TWSE:2393) is one of the world's largest LED packaging and optoelectronics manufacturers, consistently ranked among the global top four LED makers alongside Nichia (Japan), ams OSRAM (Austria/Germany), and Samsung LED. Founded in 1983 by chairman Robert Yeh (葉寅夫), the company is headquartered in Shulin District, New Taipei City, with substantial manufacturing and R&D footprints in mainland China through its Suzhou and Wuxi subsidiaries, plus regional sales offices spanning the United States (Everlight Americas), Europe (Everlight Europe), Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Total headcount sits in the 5,000 to 7,500 range depending on which group entities are counted, with the bulk of engineering and manufacturing concentrated in Taiwan and the China sites. The product portfolio is broad: high-power LEDs and modules for general lighting, automotive LEDs (headlamps, daytime running lights, interior and signal lighting) which represent one of the fastest-growing segments, infrared LEDs and receiver modules, ambient light and proximity sensors, biosensors used in wearables, photocouplers and solid-state relays, and increasingly, optical sensors used in AR/VR and consumer electronics applications. Everlight is widely reported in trade press to participate in the Apple supply chain for sensor-class components, though specific design wins are not publicly confirmed by either party. The competitive backdrop is brutal: the LED industry has spent the past several years working through chronic oversupply, with Chinese mainland competitors (San'an, MLS) compressing margins on commodity LEDs, while specialty segments (automotive, UV-C, micro-LED, IR sensing) are where Taiwan-based players including Everlight are pushing for differentiation. The 2024 to 2025 cycle has shown signs of recovery as automotive electrification and AR/VR sensor demand absorbed inventory, but cost discipline remains a defining cultural feature. Everlight is a publicly listed Taiwanese conglomerate in the truest sense: founder-chairman still actively setting direction, traditional 員工分紅 (employee profit-sharing) on top of base salary, deep manufacturing DNA, and the conservative communication style typical of Taiwan Science Park and northern Taiwan industrial culture. If you are coming from a Western tech-startup background expecting flat hierarchies, English-default workflows, and aggressive equity packages, calibrate your expectations: Everlight is a manufacturing-engineering company first, and its culture reflects that.

Application Process

  1. 1
    Open the 104人力銀行 (104 Job Bank) company page at 104

    Open the 104人力銀行 (104 Job Bank) company page at 104.com.tw/company/fuu0th4 — this is Everlight's primary recruiting channel for Taiwan-based roles and the only source where the full active requisition list is reliably visible.

  2. 2
    Create a 104 account and complete the standardized 104 履歷 (resume) profile in Tr

    Create a 104 account and complete the standardized 104 履歷 (resume) profile in Traditional Chinese; Taiwan HR teams expect the 104 format and will not chase your PDF if the 104 profile is sparse or in English only.

  3. 3
    For China-based positions (Suzhou, Wuxi), check 51job

    For China-based positions (Suzhou, Wuxi), check 51job.com (前程無憂) and Liepin (獵聘) under 億光電子 (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. or 億光電子 (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. — Taiwan HQ does not centrally post these.

  4. 4
    For overseas commercial roles (Americas, Europe, Japan, Korea), email the releva

    For overseas commercial roles (Americas, Europe, Japan, Korea), email the relevant regional subsidiary directly — everlightamericas.com and everlighteurope.com publish HR contact addresses; there is no global ATS.

  5. 5
    Apply through 104's one-click 應徵 button and attach a Traditional-Chinese resume

    Apply through 104's one-click 應徵 button and attach a Traditional-Chinese resume plus an English version if the role is international sales, IP, or works closely with overseas customers.

  6. 6
    Expect first contact from HR within 1 to 3 weeks; Taiwan manufacturing HR moves

    Expect first contact from HR within 1 to 3 weeks; Taiwan manufacturing HR moves more deliberately than software companies, and lunar new year, summer audit cycles, and end-of-quarter shipments can stretch the timeline.

  7. 7
    Be prepared for an in-person interview at the Shulin (New Taipei) HQ for Taiwan

    Be prepared for an in-person interview at the Shulin (New Taipei) HQ for Taiwan roles — remote-only interview loops remain uncommon for engineering and manufacturing positions outside of senior overseas hires.

  8. 8
    If you are targeting a specific R&D group (automotive optics, IR sensor design,

    If you are targeting a specific R&D group (automotive optics, IR sensor design, packaging process), name a director or department in your cover note; Everlight's HR routes by 部門 (department) and a generic application sits in a long queue.

Resume Tips for Everlight Electronics

recommended

Submit a Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) resume as the primary document; English is a

Submit a Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) resume as the primary document; English is acceptable as a supplement for international-facing roles but not as the only version for Taiwan HQ positions.

recommended

Use the 104 platform's structured profile fields rather than relying on an attac

Use the 104 platform's structured profile fields rather than relying on an attached PDF — Taiwan HR screens the 104 profile first and only opens attachments when the structured fields meet baseline filters.

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Quantify yield, throughput, defect rate (DPPM), and cost-down achievements; LED

Quantify yield, throughput, defect rate (DPPM), and cost-down achievements; LED packaging and sensor work is a manufacturing discipline and engineers are evaluated on measurable process improvements, not narrative accomplishments.

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List specific equipment and process experience by name: die-bond, wire-bond, enc

List specific equipment and process experience by name: die-bond, wire-bond, encapsulation, phosphor dispensing, optical measurement (LM-79, LM-80), reliability testing (JEDEC, AEC-Q102 for automotive), and EDA tools for IC-packaged sensor parts.

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Call out automotive certifications explicitly if you have them — IATF 16949, AEC

Call out automotive certifications explicitly if you have them — IATF 16949, AEC-Q101/Q102/Q104, PPAP, APQP, FMEA — automotive LED is Everlight's growth lane and these credentials shortcut the screen.

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Include your level of Mandarin (聽/說/讀/寫 self-rated, or TOCFL band) and any secon

Include your level of Mandarin (聽/說/讀/寫 self-rated, or TOCFL band) and any second language; HQ engineering meetings run in Mandarin and a candidate who needs full English support is a friction point hiring managers weigh.

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Show stability: Taiwan manufacturing employers read short tenures (under 18 mont

Show stability: Taiwan manufacturing employers read short tenures (under 18 months) as a yellow flag and expect candidates to explain each transition with a non-defensive reason.

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If you have semiconductor packaging, optoelectronics, or compound semiconductor

If you have semiconductor packaging, optoelectronics, or compound semiconductor (GaN, GaAs, InGaN, SiC) experience from TSMC, ASE, Innolux, AUO, Epistar, or San'an, surface it in the headline of your 104 profile — it will be the first thing the screener sees.

ATS System: 104人力銀行 (104 Job Bank) plus direct HR email

Everlight Electronics does not operate a self-hosted careers portal or a Western-style ATS such as Workday, SuccessFactors, or Greenhouse. As of 2026, the global English site (en.everlight.com) and the Taiwan corporate site return 404 on /careers, /recruit, /career, and equivalent paths. All Taiwan-based recruiting flows through 104.com.tw at company id fuu0th4, where Everlight maintains an active 徵才中 (currently recruiting) status. China-based subsidiary roles route through 51job.com and Liepin under the local entity names. Overseas commercial offices (Americas, Europe, Japan, Korea) handle their own hiring through email to the regional HR contact published on each subsidiary site. Behind 104, Everlight HR uses an internal SAP HR module for downstream candidate tracking, but this is invisible to applicants — your application lifecycle from the candidate side is entirely on the 104 platform until a human recruiter emails or phones you.

  • Complete every field on the 104 structured profile — work history dates, salary expectations, available start date, military service status (for male Taiwan applicants) — incomplete profiles are filtered out before a human reads them.
  • Set the 期望工作地點 (preferred work location) to include 新北市樹林區 (Shulin, New Taipei) for HQ roles, or 中國蘇州/無錫 if you are open to mainland postings.
  • Use the 104 私訊 (private message) feature to follow up with the listed HR contact 7 to 10 days after applying; polite follow-up is expected and not seen as pushy.
  • Re-apply or refresh your 104 履歷 every few weeks — the platform surfaces recently updated profiles to recruiters more prominently.
  • If you are an overseas applicant who cannot create a Taiwan phone number on 104, email the published HR address directly with your resume and a short Mandarin or English cover note explaining your situation.

Interview Culture

Everlight runs a traditional Taiwan manufacturing-engineering interview process.

Expect two to four rounds spread across two to six weeks: an HR phone or video screen in Mandarin, a technical interview with the hiring manager and one or two senior engineers, sometimes a written technical test or short presentation, and a final round that may include a department director or a vice president for senior roles. Interviews almost always happen on-site at the Shulin HQ (新北市樹林區大安路) for Taiwan positions; bring a printed Traditional-Chinese resume even if you submitted online. Dress is business formal — suit and tie for men, conservative business attire for women — which is standard for Taiwan-listed conglomerates and stricter than software-industry norms. Technical questions for engineering roles are concrete and process-oriented: walk me through a specific yield problem you debugged, what is your DPPM track record, how do you read an LED reliability test report, what AEC-Q stress sequences have you executed. For sales and marketing roles, expect questions about specific design wins, customer relationships in named accounts, and whether you can travel to mainland China and Southeast Asia regularly. Salary negotiation is conservative — Taiwan listed manufacturers anchor on government-published industry medians plus 員工分紅 (annual profit-sharing bonus), which historically can run 1 to 6 months of base depending on company performance and individual rating. Equity grants in the Western sense are uncommon. Compensation packages and signing bonuses are not aggressive; the trade-off is a stable employer with a multi-decade track record. Communication in interviews is polite, indirect, and seniority-aware; a candidate who interrupts senior interviewers, oversells, or frames every prior employer negatively will not advance regardless of technical strength.

What Everlight Electronics Looks For

  • Manufacturing-engineering depth — semiconductor packaging, optoelectronics, compound semiconductor processes, optical metrology, or sensor design backgrounds with quantifiable process and yield contributions.
  • Automotive-grade quality fluency — AEC-Q102 stress testing, IATF 16949, PPAP, APQP, 8D problem-solving, and MSA familiarity, especially for the fast-growing automotive LED business.
  • Mandarin fluency for engineering and operations roles, and Mandarin plus English for international sales, IP, and customer-facing roles; pure English-only candidates are routed only to overseas subsidiaries.
  • Stability and longevity — multi-year tenures at prior employers and a clear reason for each transition; Taiwan listed conglomerates discount candidates with frequent moves.
  • Customer industry knowledge — Tier 1 automotive (Magna, Valeo, Stanley, Koito), consumer electronics OEMs, smart home, AR/VR sensor integration; concrete account experience matters more than generic marketing language.
  • Operational discipline — tolerance for cost-down cycles, weekend or holiday shipping support, and the rhythms of a Taiwan-listed company with quarterly investor scrutiny and audit committee oversight.
  • Cross-strait operating experience — willingness to travel to or rotate through Suzhou and Wuxi sites is a meaningful differentiator for senior engineering and operations roles.
  • Cultural fit for a founder-led conglomerate — comfort working under a long-tenured chairman (Robert Yeh has led the company since 1983), deference to seniority, and a long-horizon view of career progression.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I actually find Everlight Electronics job openings?
For Taiwan headquarters and Taiwan-based roles, the only reliable source is 104人力銀行 at https://www.104.com.tw/company/fuu0th4. Everlight's corporate sites (everlight.com, en.everlight.com, everlight.com.tw) do not host a careers section — common paths like /careers, /recruit, and /jobs all return 404 as of April 2026. For mainland China subsidiary roles in Suzhou and Wuxi, search 51job.com and Liepin under the local entity names. For overseas commercial offices, email the regional HR address listed on everlightamericas.com or everlighteurope.com.
Do I need to speak Mandarin to work at Everlight?
For Taiwan headquarters engineering, manufacturing, quality, and operations roles, yes — Mandarin is the working language and meeting language. For international sales, IP, and roles that interface with overseas Tier 1 automotive customers or AR/VR OEMs, business English is required and Mandarin is preferred but sometimes negotiable. For roles based at the U.S., European, Japanese, or Korean subsidiaries, the local language plus English is the norm and Mandarin is not strictly required, though it accelerates internal communication with HQ.
What ATS or applicant tracking system does Everlight use?
Everlight does not use a customer-facing ATS like Workday, SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, or Lever. The candidate experience runs on 104人力銀行's platform for Taiwan, on 51job and Liepin for China, and on direct email for overseas subsidiaries. Internally, HR uses SAP HR modules for downstream candidate management, but applicants never see this layer.
Is Everlight a stable employer given the LED industry oversupply?
Everlight has weathered multiple LED industry cycles since its 1983 founding and remains one of the global top four LED packaging firms by revenue. The 2022 to 2024 oversupply pressure was real and the company has been disciplined about cost-down and product mix shift toward higher-margin segments — automotive LED, IR sensors, optical sensors for AR/VR, and biosensors for wearables. The 2024 to 2025 cycle has shown recovery signs as automotive electrification and AR/VR sensor demand absorbed inventory. As a TWSE-listed company (ticker 2393) with founder Robert Yeh still serving as chairman, the company has long-term shareholder commitments and is not a likely acquisition target.
Does Everlight supply Apple, and does that matter for hiring?
Trade press has reported Everlight as a sensor-class supplier in the Apple supply chain, particularly for IR and optical sensor packaging that supports devices like the Apple Vision Pro. Neither Everlight nor Apple publicly confirms specific design wins, and you should treat this as industry context rather than an officially marketed credential. For hiring, the practical implication is that the IR sensor and optical packaging groups are well-funded, on aggressive timelines, and value engineers with consumer-electronics-grade quality experience.
What is 員工分紅 (employee profit-sharing) and how much does it actually pay?
員工分紅 is a Taiwan-specific annual profit-sharing bonus paid to employees on top of base salary, distinct from a discretionary year-end bonus. For Taiwan-listed manufacturers like Everlight, 員工分紅 historically ranges from 1 to 6 months of base salary depending on the company's annual profit, the employee's department, and individual performance rating. In strong LED cycle years it can be substantial; in down years it shrinks meaningfully. It is the primary mechanism by which Taiwan engineers participate in company upside, and it is a meaningful component of total compensation that should be discussed during offer negotiation.
Is Saturday work expected at Everlight?
Taiwan manufacturing companies historically operated on a 隔週休二日 schedule (alternate-Saturday work) and shifted to a five-day week in stages over the past two decades. Modern Taiwan labor law requires standard five-day work weeks for office and engineering roles. However, manufacturing operations at the Shulin HQ and at the Suzhou and Wuxi sites run shift schedules that include weekends, and engineering staff supporting production are sometimes called in for ramp, customer-audit, or shipping-crisis support. Reviews on 104 and Glassdoor (which is sparse for Taiwan companies) indicate that overtime and occasional weekend support are part of the role for production-adjacent positions, while pure R&D and corporate functions are closer to standard five-day schedules.
What is the relationship between Taiwan HQ and the China subsidiaries?
Everlight's mainland China sites in Suzhou and Wuxi are wholly-owned manufacturing and assembly subsidiaries operating under separate Chinese legal entities. Taiwan HQ holds product strategy, R&D leadership, key customer relationships, and overall financial direction; the China sites execute high-volume manufacturing and serve mainland customers. Cross-strait operating experience — including willingness to travel to Suzhou and Wuxi for ramp support, supplier audits, or rotational assignments — is a meaningful differentiator for senior engineering and operations candidates. Cross-strait political tension is a background risk that any Taiwan-China dual-footprint employer manages, but Everlight's structure has been stable for many years.
How long does the interview process take?
Plan on two to six weeks from application to offer for typical engineering roles. Senior, R&D director, or overseas-subsidiary roles can run longer because they require alignment across HQ and subsidiary stakeholders. Lunar new year (late January through mid-February), Taiwan's audit and shareholder meeting season (April through June), and end-of-quarter shipping crunches can extend timelines. If you have not heard back within three weeks of applying via 104, send a polite 私訊 (private message) follow-up to the HR contact listed on the requisition.
What kinds of engineering backgrounds does Everlight prioritize?
The strongest backgrounds are semiconductor packaging (especially compound semiconductors — GaN, InGaN, GaAs), optoelectronics device design, optical metrology and reliability test, automotive-grade quality (AEC-Q102, IATF 16949, PPAP, APQP), and sensor IC packaging. Candidates from TSMC, ASE, SPIL, Epistar, AUO, Innolux, Lite-On, and similar Taiwan optoelectronics and semiconductor employers move smoothly. Software-only backgrounds are a poor fit unless the role is explicitly an embedded firmware, machine vision, or factory MES position; Everlight is fundamentally a hardware and process company.

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  1. Everlight Electronics corporate site (Taiwan) —
  2. Everlight Electronics global / English site —
  3. About Everlight (corporate background, founding, scope) —
  4. Everlight Electronics 104人力銀行 company page (億光電子工業股份有限公司, currently recruiting) —
  5. Everlight Americas regional subsidiary (commercial / direct HR) —
  6. Everlight Europe regional subsidiary (commercial / direct HR) —
  7. Taiwan Stock Exchange listing for Everlight Electronics (TWSE:2393) —
  8. AEC-Q102 stress test qualification standard (automotive optoelectronics, referenced for Everlight's automotive LED roles) —