Failure Analysis Technician

SkyWater Technology Foundry, Inc.•Bloomington, MN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

SkyWater is hiring a Failure Analysis Technician 2 who has exceptional attention to detail, ability to adapt to changing work priorities while maintaining an appropriate sense of urgency. The role of a Failure Analysis Technician is to perform physical failure analysis in support of process development, yield improvement, wafer fab excursions, and reliability. The Failure Analysis Technician also operates laboratory electrical probe systems and coordinates outsourcing to external laboratories.

Requirements

2 years of experience with Associates degree or 4 years of experience without a degree
Minimum three years of experience operating highly complex laboratory, manufacturing or electrical test equipment.
Ability to handle and manipulate small delicate samples using tweezers under a microscope or inside a chemical fume hood.
U.S. Person Required: SkyWater Technology Foundry, Inc. subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All accepted applications must be U.S. Persons as defined by ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. Person as U.S. citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, Political Asylee, or Refugee.
Lifting (Up to 15lbs once per week), standing, walking, reaching, sitting, looking through optical microscopes, handling small samples. Requires excellent manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

Nice To Haves

Associate’s degree in a technical field (electronics, chemistry, physics, mathematics, materials science)
Experience working in a semiconductor wafer fabrication environment, analytical or research laboratory environment. Chemical handling experience.
Operating optical microscopes, scanning electron microscopes and/or focused ion beams. Setting up and executing automated electrical testing.

Responsibilities

Operate optical microscopes, scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and focused ion beams (FIB) following defined operating specifications
Follow detailed instructions with some guidance from senior technicians to ensure analysis requirements are fully met.
Cleave, polish and delayer samples following process specifications.
Operate laboratory electrical probe systems to provide electrical data to the reliability and process development teams.
Work collaboratively with all team members to complete analysis requests promptly.
Create and coordinate analysis requests that are sent to external laboratories.
Support the laboratory by collaboratively maintaining equipment and updating operating specifications.