Technologist - Thin Film Process

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Job Description Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated candidate to join our thin film process group.  In this role, the candidate will take an overall leader role in technical aspects and team collaboration to provide engineering support to the thin film deposition processes in manufacture lines in order to meet manufacturing objectives with high quality, high productive and low-cost products, as well as support the development of future generation products.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead thin-film process team to deliver wafers with good quality and meet the demand. Respond to the requests in a timely manner; Able to resolve the problem in an efficient way.
• Ensure the quality and minimize the risks of damages to the products by improvements in process margin and robustness of detection and procedure.
• Lead the projects and deliver results on schedule. The projects include not limited to failure analysis, troubleshoot production line issues, yield improvement, new tool or new process development, cost reduction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to smoothly transfer new processes and products to production.
• Set up and improve automation systems and working instruction documents. Provide the training instruction to the operators.
• Support fab production 24/7, including taking immediate action with fab issues.

• Substantial academic background in Material Science, Physics, Chemistry, or related engineering fields
• Experience of wafer fab operations/processes in Data Storage and/or Semiconductor technology industries
• Demonstrate strong technical knowledge in thin film deposition processes (PVD, CVD, IBD, etc), and solid background on correlation of process and equipment hardware
• Deep understanding of material characterization techniques. Knowledge of Magnetic material process and characterization is a plus.
• Knowledge of DOE and data analysis using JMP
• Understanding of SPC.
• Systematic trouble shooting and problem-solving skill.
• Leadership and communication skill, and good team player.
• Being self-motivation, and good project management skill

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