Cepheid green card sponsorship data
Between October 2024 and June 2026, DOL decided 105 PERM labor certifications filed by Cepheid. Here are its approval rate, processing time, salaries and most sponsored jobs.
At a glance
Cepheid ranks #253 among 1,211 employers with 25 or more decided PERM cases.
Its approval rate of 100.0% compares with 97% nationally, and its median of 475 days from filing to approval is 10 days faster than the national median (faster than 71% of employers).
27% of its cases are Manufacturing Engineers, and 98% of the jobs are in California (mostly Sunnyvale).
100.0% are professional positions (G-100), usually filed as EB-2 or EB-3 professional and skilled worker cases.
Its busiest month was July 2025, with 9 decisions.
Most sponsored jobs
| Job title | Cases |
|---|---|
| Senior Process Engineer | 10 |
| Process Engineer | 6 |
| Process Engineer II | 3 |
| Business Solutions Architect | 2 |
| Sr. Consumables Design Engineer | 2 |
| Quality Systems Specialist III | 2 |
| Data Scientist | 2 |
| Sr. Software Quality Engineer | 2 |
Occupations (SOC)
| SOC | Cases |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing Engineers | 28 |
| Software Developers | 11 |
| Validation Engineers | 10 |
| Mechanical Engineers | 8 |
| Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers | 7 |
Where the jobs are
| State | Cases |
|---|---|
| California | 103 |
| Washington | 2 |
| City | Cases |
|---|---|
| Sunnyvale | 65 |
| Lodi | 30 |
| Santa Clara | 4 |
| Newark | 3 |
| Bothell | 2 |
Decisions
| Certified | 58 |
| Certified-Expired | 47 |
| Denied | 0 |
| Withdrawn | 0 |
Certified-Expired means the certification passed its 180-day window; most of these were used for an I-140 and show as expired in the data, so they count as approved. Approval rate = approved ÷ (approved + denied), withdrawals excluded.
Cases decided per month
Other employers sponsoring Manufacturing Engineers
| Employer | Cases | Approval rate |
|---|---|---|
| GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. | 51 | 100.0% |
Other sponsors in California
| Employer | Cases | Approval rate |
|---|---|---|
| Wal-mart Associates, Inc. | 1,564 | 99.9% |
| NVIDIA Corporation | 1,461 | 93% |
| Intel Corporation | 1,365 | 99.9% |
| Salesforce, Inc. | 1,290 | 99.8% |
| Apple Inc. | 1,286 | 99.7% |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 932 | 99.8% |
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC PERM disclosure data, decisions from October 2024 – June 2026. Only decided cases are included; pending cases are not in the disclosure data.
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