Tool Engineer - Superconducting Wafer Fabrication

SLAC; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California invites applications for a Tool Engineer for the Detector Microfabrication Facility (DMF) in the Fundamental Physics Directorate. The role focuses on operating, maintaining, and repairing the DMF tool suite to enable superconducting microelectronics fabrication and high-yield device performance.

The position requires stewardship of lithography, deposition, etch, wet chemistry stations, and metrology tools within an ISO-5 cleanroom,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience stewarding microelectronics fabrication equipment including lithography, deposition and etch tools
• Experience in disciplined operations at a research-scale cleanroom facility
• Experience in quality, safety and customer service oriented environments

Responsibilities

• Oversight of the operation, maintenance, and repair of fabrication and metrology tools to ensure optimal performance and reliability of the equipment.
• Re-qualify tools after maintenance or hardware changes.
• Identify and resolve equipment malfunctions and process-related issues swiftly; use root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to minimize downtime.
• Develop and implement calibration and qualification protocols to ensure proper operation of tools in compliance with industry standards and laboratory specifications; maintain calibration records.
• Improve hardware capability and reliability while maintaining safe operation.

Skills

Lithography

Deposition

Etch

Cleanroom operations

Root cause analysis

Tools

Metrology tools

DMF tool suite

Job description

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California invites applications for a Tool Engineer for the Detector Microfabrication Facility (DMF) in the Fundamental Physics Directorate. The role focuses on operating, maintaining, and repairing the DMF tool suite to enable superconducting microelectronics fabrication and high-yield device performance.

The position requires stewardship of lithography, deposition, etch, wet chemistry stations, and metrology tools within an ISO-5 cleanroom,