Process Engineer

What You'll do: As a Process Engineer at Lam, you will operate on cutting-edge technology, harnessing atomic precision, material science, and surface engineering to push technical boundaries. Your role involves developing new and advanced process formulations, defining equipment hardware to meet processing requirements, evaluating test data, and coordinating design requirements to ensure compatibility of processing methods. Your expertise and knowledge play a crucial role our customers success, making an impact on the next generation of semiconductor breakthroughs.  

Technical

• Responsible for performing professional process engineering research, development, and evaluation in support of the company’s complex semiconductor capital equipment and systems.
• Reviews processing techniques and methods applied in the manufacture, fabrication and evaluation of products. Involvement may begin at any step from pilot plant to full-scale manufacturing.
• May conceive and plan projects involving definition and selection of new concepts and approaches in the processing or development of new processes.
• Compiles and evaluates test data to determine appropriate limits and variables for process specifications.
• Supports customer technology managers in the planning, data collection, analysis, and reporting of customer demos to defend existing process applications.
• Works with customer and senior engineers cross functionally to understand roadmaps, process flow, inflection points, requirements and business issues/ challenges.
• Utilize internal simulation & AI/ML based tools to drive process development strategies in optimizing the etch processes.
• Analyze data and provide insights to improve process performance, yield and efficiency. Utilize JMP and other tools to generate process sensitivities and trade-offs
• Work closely with C&F (concept & feasibility) teams to drive and adopt new process innovations and technology roadmaps.
• Great presentation skills to clearly articulate demo status, complex etch strategies
• Actively addresses any potential process or productivity issues at the customer site and provide alternative solution.
• Works with customer to demonstrate and introduce new technologies at customer sites through demos, on site evaluations, and new tool qualifications. Drives the adoption of new technology at the customer site.
• Acts as single point of contact accountable for process, hardware, software, etc. related requests from customer and work with cross-functional teams within BU in the planning, data collection, analysis, and reporting of customer demos to defend existing process applications.

Leadership

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.
• Works with cross-functional teams to get information and results as needed
• Update on regular basis demo progress to Lam executives and higher management both at customer and internal. 

Customer Relation

• Professionally represent the company to the customer. Utilize knowledge of company’s product lines and services to keep existing/ potential customers informed when new/ additional needs are identified.

Other Job Responsibilities

• Comfortable with travelling 3-4 Months of the time during initial training.
• Comfortable with travelling after training for on-site customer support.
• Contributes to product development and release activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or Physics or Masters or Bachelors with relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• In depth understanding of Plasma Physics, Reactive Ion Etching (RIE), Atomic Layer Etching (ALE), Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP), Capacitively Coupled Plasma (CCP) and Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD), or Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD).
• Familiarity with working in a laboratory and on semiconductor equipment with experience in surface preparation and analytical techniques.
• Experience in surface preparation and analytical techniques.
• Interest in advanced technology and an on-going desire to learn.
• In-depth understanding and working knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and/or Design of Experiments (DOE); experience with statistical tools (JMP, Minitab, etc.)
• Strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and ability to react to shifting priorities to meet business needs and deadlines.
• Excellent people skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively and efficiently with diverse teams, semiconductor customers, internal and external partners.
• Experience working in a collaborative and matrixed environment
• Handling development projects and supporting semiconductor customers.