Nanofabrication Engineering Specialist

University of Notre Dame•Notre Dame, IN

19h

About The Position

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC seeks a Nanofabrication Engineering Specialist in Notre Dame, Indiana. DUTIES: Liaise and consult with external users. Provide external users of the facilities (i.e. industrial customers, outside academic users) with advice on process design and options. Train faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate researchers, and external users in tool operation. Include operational principles, as well as conveying best practices for specific applications as required for each user's intended application. Apply detailed knowledge of operational procedures for each tool, as well as a deep understanding of the principles of operation of each tool and how they interact with the research goals of each user. Perform novel process development. Develop new processes to enable improved research results from the facility. Provide Process engineering support (advice on process design, options). Provide advice to faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and external facility users on processing design to achieve their research objectives. Provide advice and consulting services for how best to achieve research goals with existing tooling and capabilities of the lab. Provide nanofabrication facility processing as a service. Responsible for assisting directly in research by providing processing as a service for cleanroom users and external customers. Utilize the tooling and the capabilities of the lab for lithography, metallization, film deposition, etching, etc., on a customized basis for each customer. Perform cleanroom process equipment repair and maintenance, including process baseline monitoring. Include specialized preventive maintenance and repair activities on equipment in the cleanroom, as well as periodic operation of the equipment with tests to confirm operation is within expectations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science or a related field and three (3) years of experience in job offered or a related field.
Experience with repair and maintenance of equipment for nanoelectronic and microelectronic device fabrication processing
Experience with operation and use of equipment for nanoelectronic and microelectronic device processing
Experience with physical vapor deposition (electron beam and thermal evaporation, RF and DC sputtering, atomic layer deposition, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition) photolithographic processing, wet- and plasma-etching (e.g. reactive ion etching, inductively coupled plasma etching, conventional plasma etching), rapid thermal processing, and metrology (e.g. optical microscopy, ellipsometry, profilometry)
Experience with principles of nanofabrication technologies and their implementation.

Responsibilities

Liaise and consult with external users.
Provide external users of the facilities (i.e. industrial customers, outside academic users) with advice on process design and options.
Train faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate researchers, and external users in tool operation.
Apply detailed knowledge of operational procedures for each tool, as well as a deep understanding of the principles of operation of each tool and how they interact with the research goals of each user.
Perform novel process development.
Provide Process engineering support (advice on process design, options).
Provide advice to faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and external facility users on processing design to achieve their research objectives.
Provide advice and consulting services for how best to achieve research goals with existing tooling and capabilities of the lab.
Provide nanofabrication facility processing as a service.
Responsible for assisting directly in research by providing processing as a service for cleanroom users and external customers.
Utilize the tooling and the capabilities of the lab for lithography, metallization, film deposition, etching, etc., on a customized basis for each customer.
Perform cleanroom process equipment repair and maintenance, including process baseline monitoring.