Etch process engineer

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

66d • $147,000 - $202,500

About The Position

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

Requirements

• PhD’s degree or foreign equivalent in Materials Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physical Chemistry, Physics related field and 10 years of experience in job offered or related process engineering position.
• Plasma etch, including Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) and Capacitively Coupled Plasma (CCP) etch tools.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing processes and industry standards including deposition, etch, lithography and metrology.
• Design of experiments (DOE) to resolve complex materials analysis problems.
• Statistical analysis methods and tools.

Responsibilities

• Perform plasma etch (SYM3/ICP etch) process development on a variety of difficult systems.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis and resolve a variety of difficult process engineering issues.
• Generate internal and external documentation for products, presentations and technical reports.
• Interact with internal modules (WET/CMP/Lithograph/Deposition/Integration) to resolve a variety of process engineering issues/problems with limited supervision.
• Design and implement new technology, products and analytical instrumentation.
• Utilize techniques to characterize hardware, define methods and apply new technologies to characterize hardware, and/or perform hardware characterization on a wide range of complex systems for multiple products, within safety guidelines.
• Implement new technology, products and analytical instrumentation.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including participation in a bonus and a stock award program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees