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About our client
Our client operates in the Telecoms Equipment Semiconductors Industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has branches spread to more than 30 countries, providing employment to more than 45,000 people all over the world. They fall in the Fortune 500 Companies. Their core business is designing and manufacturing semiconductors. They believe in driving digital transformation.
As a Front-End Process Integration Engineer, you will be responsible for...
Yield Improvement and Failure Analysis:
- Owning overall Front-End process yield performance and driving continuous yield improvement initiatives.
- Performing comprehensive wafer scrap analysis and identifying root causes of yield loss through data-driven investigations.
- Partnering closely with process module engineers, manufacturing, quality, and equipment teams to resolve process-related yield excursions.
- Developing and implementing effective corrective and preventive actions to eliminate recurrence of process and quality issues.
- Leading cross-functional investigations and continuous improvement projects to improve process capability and manufacturing robustness.
- Capturing lessons learned in organizational knowledge databases to ensure long-term sustainability.
Process Optimization and Development:
- Designing, executing, and analyzing Design of Experiments to optimize process conditions and establish robust manufacturing windows.
- Evaluating process performance using statistical techniques and advanced quality tools.
- Identifying opportunities for baseline yield, cycle-time, and cost improvements across Front-End processes.
- Supporting new technology introductions, process qualifications, and industrialization activities.
Process Change Management:
- Planning, coordinating, and executing process changes through Limited Change Requests, ECNs, and qualification activities.
- Assessing manufacturing risks associated with process modifications and ensuring successful implementation without adverse impact on yield, quality, reliability, or customer requirements.
- Monitoring post-implementation performance and driving timely closure of action items.
Process Transfer and Production Ramp
- Supporting engineering runs, process flow creation, and manufacturing readiness activities for new products and technologies.
- Coordinating required tooling, accessories, documentation, and process setup activities.
- Reviewing engineering lot results and ensuring smooth transition into volume production.
- Monitoring initial production performance and driving corrective actions where required.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Working closely with Technology Development teams in Singapore and other development sites on new industrialization projects.
- Providing technical leadership and integration support across process, equipment, manufacturing, quality, and product engineering functions.
- Communicating technical findings, risk assessments, and recommendations effectively to management and stakeholders.
Customer Satisfaction:
- Providing timely initial responses to customer queries.
- Driving rapid containment of yield and performance issues.
- Ensuring customer communications are accurate, complete, and clear.
- Closing issues and projects within committed timelines through proactive management and without escalation.
- Delivering customer commitments on time.
What you already have...
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Materials Engineering, Microelectronics, Semiconductor Engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
- Experience in semiconductor wafer fabrication or high-volume electronics manufacturing. Front-End semiconductor process integration experience is highly preferred.
- Hands-on involvement in new technology introduction, process qualification, industrialization, manufacturing ramp-up, yield enhancement, or process control methodologies.