Process Engineer - Diffusion

About Tower Semiconductor

Job Description

We are looking for a person who is excited to bring his or her experience in Diffusion, PE-CVD or wet cleaning processes, materials, or equipment development to a competitive and highly differentiated specialty process foundry for RF-CMOS, BICMOS, MEMS, and Silicon Photonics devices. The ideal candidate is self-motivated to make a meaningful difference for our customers and our business. He or she enjoys working in a collaborative environment, developing new or continuously improving existing diffusion or dielectric deposition process modules to meet performance, quality, and cycle time requirements of a steadily advancing technology road map.

Development Opportunities

• Participate in the challenge and development of exciting new technologies.
• Build personal knowledge and skills towards leadership of projects and teams.
• Work cross-functionally with Integration and other Process departments for continued improvement.
• Contribute to organizational development by mentoring less senior engineers, technicians, and operators. 
• Interact with state of the art manufacturing equipment, metrology, and software tool manufacturers.

Job Responsibilities

• Experience with diffusion, dielectric deposition, semiconductor cleaning processes, materials, or equipment development for RF-CMOS, BICMOS, MEMS, and Silicon Photonics devices.
• Monitor, control, and continuously improve manufacturing processes in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Sustain processes, troubleshooting yield problems, developing process enhancements, and implementing new processes to continuously improve performance, quality, cost, and operational efficiency.
• Install and qualifying of new tools and process capabilities.
• Support process and technology transfers.
• Participate in troubleshooting taskforces as needed and helping develop solutions that prevent recurrence.
• Work with and support the Integration team and Quality organization to ensure technologies meet all technical specifications and reliability requirements.
• Familiar with lean manufacturing and six sigma processes.

Job Requirements

• Either B.S. Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Solid State Physics, Electrical Engineering or other relevant engineering physical science discipline is required; M.S. or Ph.D. degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years process engineering experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of principles, theories, concepts, and techniques of process engineering.
• Ability to execute definable portions of a project or lead own small projects.
• Ability to use knowledge to provide solutions to a variety of difficult problems.
• Strong organizational skills; demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and able to react to shifting priorities to meet business needs.
• Demonstrated ability to work well within a global team or environment.
• Six sigma certification preferred.

Compensation Range

$78,850-$145,122

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