Process Technician Swing Shift

Applicantz, Inc; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Applicantz, Inc in Fremont, CA is seeking an experienced laboratory technician/engineer for an onsite role. The position involves performing technical tests and experiments for process engineering, setting up processing equipment, and supporting R&D efforts.

Candidates should have electronics/materials/CS/chemistry/physics degree, 4+ years in semiconductor industry, ability to work in clean room PPE, and proficiency with MS Office. Strong communication in English is required.

Qualifications

• NCGS with associates or BS degree in electronics, material science, computer science, chemistry, or physics.
• 4+ years’ experience in semiconductor industry in a building or troubleshooting role.
• Ability to work in a clean room wearing PPE (bunny suit, safety glasses, masks, shields, gloves, safety footwear) if needed.

Responsibilities

• Performs technical tests and experiments for process engineering within R&D.
• Sets up processing equipment and monitors operations.
• Audits and guides line operators to ensure correct procedures.
• Processes test runs and records results for engineering review.
• Provides technical assistance to process development and engineering personnel.
• Performs lab activities for customer demos and process experiments.

Education

Electronics/Materials/CS/Chemistry/Physics degree

Tools

MS Office

Diagnostic software

Cleanroom PPE protocols

Job description

This is an onsite role in Fremont, CA 94538. Shift Schedule, Mon-Fri, 40 hours/week, 2:00 PM to 10.30 PM PST

Qualifications:

• NCGS with associates or BS degree in electronics, material science, computer science, chemistry, physics.
• 4+ years’ experience in semi-conductor industry building or troubleshooting role.
• Able to work up to shifts in a clean room environment wearing PPE (bunny suit, safety glasses, masks, shields, gloves, safety footwear) if needed.
• Consistently demonstrate ability to be flexible and responsive to changing priorities (ex., rework, overtime).
• Willing and able to install components from a working height between 12”-71” and reach into machines to perform tasks.
• Operate computer interface and navigate diagnostic software.
• Proficient with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams).
• Effectively read, write, and communicate with others in English.

Responsibilities:

• Performs technical tests and experiments for process engineering within R&D.
• Performs set up of processing equipment.
• Monitors, audits and provides guidance to line operators.
• Processes test runs and prepares records, charts, and graphs of results for presentation to engineering to identify yield problems or test new products.
• Provides technical assistance to process development and engineering personnel.
• Performs process engineering lab activities for customer demo and/or C&F process experiments. This includes sample preparation, sample chemical treatment and running waferflows on tools.
• Performs measurement on metrology tools to collect experiment results including thin film measurement, CD measurement and SEM imaging.
• Understand process requirement and works with minimal supervision for execution of experiments. Creates process recipes from scratch and tunes process recipes for robustness. Provide suggestions for process recipe improvement.
• Understands tools operations, able to clear basic alarms and applies troubleshooting skills to reduce tool downtime.
• Conducts statistical process control (SPC) and etch rates including measure, execution, analysis and reporting to ensure our chamber performance is under control and in-spec. Alert for any trend or out-of-spec issue and come up possible causes and troubleshooting actions.
• Works from customer instruction to determine target pattern feature and perform first sample cleaving using microscope / top down SEM and micro-cleavers. Creates or modifies ppt instruction for others to follow.
• Provides process activities and lab protocol training for new process engineers, new process technicians or field service engineers on running the lab equipment, performing sample preparation and following all the lab protocols.
• Assists others as first level of contact person on clearing alarms, lab operation and lab protocol questions.
• Works with demo engineers and metrology team to develop metrology recipe.
• Recommends improvement of experiment execution for quality and efficiency.
• Works with lab operation team to improve lab safety, customer IP and lab protocols.