Process Technician IV

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

1d • Onsite

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. They design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips. As a Process Technician, you'll be responsible for preparing wafers for experimentation, operating reactors to perform thin film processes, and using scanning electron microscopes for analyses and imaging. You'll record process conditions and experimental observations, perform routine maintenance procedures, and evaluate wafers and thin films. Process Technicians are tasked with preparing cross-section samples for analysis, identifying patterns of interest in imaging, and operating laboratory process equipment and instrumentation. Your expertise in troubleshooting, equipment maintenance, and process optimization drives higher levels of productivity, quality, and efficiency in our manufacturing processes.

Requirements

• Technical Diploma
• 4-7 years of experience

Responsibilities

• Prepare blanket wafers/panels for experimentation, prepare special coupons/wafers/panels per engineer team instruction
• Read die map, and cut coupons based on die map.
• Prepare coupon wafer for processing
• Operate reactors to perform preclean and thin film processes, record process parameters, and experimental observations.
• Prepare sample after processing, submit samples to internal SEM/TEM metrology lab, or inline metrology
• Upload metrology results to working file.
• Prepare graphs and tables summarizing results
• Follow company demo procedure, prepare customer wafer/coupon, operate tool per demo instruction.
• Understand basic tool / HW information, recover tool error during process.
• Report tool issue to HW team.
• Use quantitative wafer evaluation and process instrumentation knowledge to draw conclusions from data.
• Assists in training junior technicians.
• Develop and publish best known method (BKM) procedures, including coupon sample prep, manual metrology measurement, etc

Benefits

• supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career
• programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth
• care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go
• comprehensive benefits package
• participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees