OPC Lithography Engineer - Quantum PDK Focus

GlobalFoundries inc.; Essex Junction (VT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries seeks an OPC Engineer to advance computational lithography and OPC solutions for cutting-edge semiconductor processes. You will develop, qualify, and maintain OPC workflows, working with lithography, etch, metrology, and design-rule teams to improve pattern fidelity and manufacturing yield.

The role requires a strong foundation in optical proximity corrections, lithography modeling, and data-driven optimization, with scripting experience to automate analytics and improve cycle

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field.
• Experience in optical proximity correction, computational lithography, semiconductor lithography, patterning, or related fields.
• Ability to analyze complex simulation and wafer data and translate findings into OPC improvements.

Responsibilities

• Develop, qualify, maintain, and optimize OPC technology files, recipes, and computational lithography solutions for advanced-generation semiconductor lithography processes.
• Develop and evaluate OPC strategies, model-based corrections, and patterning solutions to improve wafer pattern fidelity and yield.
• Collaborate with design rule, lithography, etch, metrology, modeling, mask, and computational infrastructure engineers to define and implement optimal patterning solutions.
• Perform root-cause analysis of printing, patterning, and yield-limiting hotspots using simulation and wafer data.
• Validate and release OPC solutions through simulation-to-wafer correlation and quality-control methodologies.
• Develop automated analysis, verification, and data-processing workflows to improve OPC development efficiency.
• Research and apply industry best practices in OPC and computational lithography.

Skills

Semiconductor lithography

OPC concepts

Pattern fidelity

Process-window behavior

Scripting for automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering

Master’s or PhD (preferred)

Tools

OPC platforms

Lithography modeling tools

Wafer metrology correlation tools

Job description

GlobalFoundries seeks an OPC Engineer to advance computational lithography and OPC solutions for cutting-edge semiconductor processes. You will develop, qualify, and maintain OPC workflows, working with lithography, etch, metrology, and design-rule teams to improve pattern fidelity and manufacturing yield.

The role requires a strong foundation in optical proximity corrections, lithography modeling, and data-driven optimization, with scripting experience to automate analytics and improve cycle