Yield / Process Engineer

Technical Link
Santa barbara, CA
20 Feb 2025

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Job Summary:As part of the uncooled detector (focal plane array) research and development team, the successful candidate will have responsibility for engineering wafer fab processes including DUV lithography using ASML 5500, plasma and reactive ion etch, thin film deposition, and wet cleans for next generation infrared detector designs. Candidate will design and implement new processes and automate or improve existing ones to support aggressive technology development goals. Candidate will characterize wafers and devices using SEM and or FIB/SEM. As part of process development, hands-on wafer fabrication and characterization of pilot lots is required. This is the right place for a self-directed, goal-oriented, collaborative engineer/scientist. The work is varied and challenging where creative problem-solving opportunities are many. Our culture is collaborative, supportive, and fun. The work environment is mixed general office and clean room/lab.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Innovate new processes to enable the technology roadmap
  • Design and execute experiments, analyze data, draw conclusions, document, and communicate results
  • Establish feasibility of new processes with hands-on processing of pilot lots on production equipment
  • Characterize results using quantitative metrology tools
  • Automate or improve established processes
  • Transition knowledge to sustainment engineers or technicians
  • Document methods and workflows in an MES-ready format
  • Plan for statistical process control (SPC) practices as appropriate
  • Evaluate production yield challenges and recommend improvements
  • Collaborate with device physicists, research technicians, and test engineers to participate in overall product R&D cycle

Job Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related technical discipline required
  • 0-10 years of related experience desired
  • Proficient computer skills – Word, Excel & Outlook
  • Ability to communicate clearly in written and spoken English
  • Strong data analysis skills (fluency in Excel, MatLAB, JMP, Python, SQL, or equivalent is helpful)
  • Ability to use inspection equipment (microscopes, FIB/SEM, interferometers, ellipsometers), semiconductor fabrication equipment, and wet bench chemistry
  • Direct experience with one or more key wafer fabrication processes
  • Familiarity and/or strong desire to learn microelectronics and MEMS fabrication techniques
  • Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

Desired Background
  • Wafer processing for semiconductor or MEMS fabrication
  • Infrared detector technology
  • Statistical Process Control and Design of Experiments familiarity desired
  • Lean Six Sigma or other problem solving/decision making methods (8D, Kepner-Tregoe, or equivalent)
  • ID: #49324107
  • State: California Santa barbara 93101 Santa barbara USA
  • City: Santa barbara
  • Salary: $80,000 - $140,000
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-02-20
  • Deadline: 2023-04-17
  • Category: Et cetera