Process Engineer III - (E3)

Salary

$124,000.00 - $171,000.00

Location: Santa Clara,CA

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As a Process Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in designing and optimizing manufacturing processes for display and semiconductor manufacturing technologies. You will collect and analyze data, perform hardware characterization, and troubleshoot engineering issues. You'll also measure film properties, generate technical documentation, and engage with customers to resolve concerns.

Process Engineers collaborate with vendors and suppliers, and become familiar with implementing new technologies and products. You will experiment, learn, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the semiconductor and display industries, partnering with our globally recognized R&D teams on state-of-the-art research and development projects.

About the role

Join a process development team working on next-generation thin-film deposition and surface treatment for advanced logic interconnect. You will own process development on 300 mm chambers and work closely with hardware engineering teams to take new technology from feasibility to qualified process.

Role Responsibilities

• Own experiments end to end, from DOE design and wafer runs through metrology, analysis, and recommendations.
• Develop and optimize deposition and plasma-based processes to meet film performance, integration, and reliability targets.
• Characterize films using standard thin-film metrology and analytical techniques, and connect process conditions to film properties.
• Partner with mechanical, electrical, and RF engineering teams on hardware requirements, test plans, and design reviews.
• Support new hardware bring-up, qualification, and chamber troubleshooting using data-driven root-cause analysis.
• Plan and run multiple experiment tracks in parallel to make efficient use of tool time.
• Communicate results to cross-functional teams and management, and drive work with partner groups independently.

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 0-3 years of industry experience; or MS with 2-5 years;
• Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in complex problem solving
• Hands-on experience in semiconductor thin-film deposition or plasma processing
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Additional Information
• Time Type: Full time
• Employee Type: Assignee / Regular
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Eligible: Yes

Pay and benefits

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

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