R&D Process Engineer - Thin Film Deposition (all genders)
- Develop, monitor, and optimize thin film deposition processes (primarily sputtering) to support R&D and prototype fabrication.
- Maintain tool health and stability through performance tracking, SPC monitoring, and preventive maintenance coordination.
- Support researcher use of deposition tools, ensuring safe operation, consistent process quality, and compliance with FAB standards.
- Lead and assist in tool upgrades, process capability improvements, and new equipment evaluation or acquisition.
- Document process parameters, tool performance, and experiment outcomes to ensure traceability and knowledge sharing.
- Serve as the technical interface between the fabrication team and research groups to enable efficient process development and experimentation.
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- Provide service, maintenance, and repair support for advanced high-tech equipment at customer sites.
- Troubleshoot technical issues and identify root causes of equipment failures.
- Install, start up, and relocate equipment when required.
- Perform diagnostics and implement solutions to minimize downtime.
- Support equipment upgrades and engineering changes.
- Read and work with electrical and mechanical drawings, diagrams, and manuals.
- Maintain accurate service and project documentation.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to ensure excellent service.
- Support and execute smaller technical projects and gradually take ownership of more complex tasks.
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- Responsible for providing quality on-site repair and maintenance service of complex electro-mechanical systems.
- Analytical troubleshooting of technical problems to component level.
- Performs complete installation/relocation start-up services
- Troubleshoot equipment problems and conduct diagnostic procedures to isolate problems and take steps to minimize downtime or system interruptions and eliminate equipment malfunctions. Determine corrective actions as required.
- Installations and/or relocations of equipment at customers’ sites.
- Remain up to date on equipment/tools through appropriate training, manuals, factory periodicals and other relevant materials.
- Assist in complex field modifications and updates as released in Engineering Change Notifications.
- Maintain records and reports as required to properly coordinate activities with supervisors and customers.
- Planning, management, and execution of projects of a limited scope and duration
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- Responsible for performing professional process engineering research, development and evaluation in semiconductor environment
- Reviews processing techniques and methods applied in the manufacture, fabrication and evaluation of products including in-house lab demonstrations
- Conceives and plans projects involving definition and selection of new concepts and approaches
- Works with customer and senior engineers cross functionally to understand roadmaps, process flow, inflection points, requirements and business issues/ challenges.
- Acts as customer technology manager in the planning, data collection, analysis and reporting
- Acts as single point of contact accountable for process related customer requests
- Drives introduction and evaluation of new technologies at customer sites including new tool qualification
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Senior Research Engineer - Process Development for Integrated Photonics Fabrication (all genders)
- PIC Fabrication & Development:Designing, fabricating, and testing PICs.
- Platform Specialization: Focusing primarily on process development for either Aluminum Nitride (AlN) or Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) Platform.
- Technology ownership: Owning a platform flow (AlN or TFLN) and acting as a go-to person for fabrication topics, including coordination with cleanroom/process engineering and alignment with design/test needs. This includes mentoring and knowledge transfer, proactive risk/bottleneck identification and mitigation, and contributing to roadmap/benchmarking and experimental strategy.
- DOE- Driven process development:
- Developing and integrating process modules for stable, repeatable fabrication, increasing
- Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and pilot-line readiness.
- Planning and executing Design of Experiments (DOE) to optimize processes.
- Driving process integration, stability, and performance improvements for scalable fabrication.
- Defining Process windows
- Performing data-driven root-cause analysis
- Fabrication: Hands-on work with key fabrication processes including lithography, deposition (PVD/ALD/PECVD), dry etch (ICP-RIE), metrology/SPC, and documentation/change control.
- Collaboration & Teamwork:
- Working closely with SAL’s process engineering team.
- Collaborating to ensure high fabrication fidelity.
- Supporting industry and academic collaborations within multidisciplinary projects.
- Documentation & IP:
- Reporting and thorough documentation of work.
- Contributing to IP generation and patent applications.
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Senior Research Engineer – Nitride Thin-Film Materials (Wide Band Gap) (all genders)
- Development of thin films for piezoelectric and wide-band-gap applications.
- Design and execute experiments to optimize nitride thin film materials, guided by device specifications and performance feedback.
- Structural and functional (e.g. dielectric, electrical, ferroelectric) characterization of the deposited thin films.
- Collaboration with design, fabrication, characterization, and process engineer teams to optimize full process flow and device performance.
- Definition of strategies for material optimization and pursuing scientifically relevant investigations.
- Development of strategies to address novel material properties and novel fields of application.
- Contributing to the standardization of procedures and workflows within the Unit.
- Filing IP disclosures whenever possible and appropriate.
- Contribution to scientific dissemination (publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, presentations at conferences).
- Contribution to Unit workflows, project acquisition and project management.
- Position is offered within the Chips JU Pilot Lines.
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- Design and prepare test fixtures\equipment and executes the test followed by data evaluation
- Test set-up and execution for
- Components/Devices
- Systems/Tools
- Execution of tests
- Start-up of test stand
- Handling of related components
- Operating various measurement systems
- Structured diagnostic and problem-solving methods must be used during start-up and LAB testing
- Apply statistical methods for specification of reliability tests and data evaluation
- Create test documentation based on our standards and meaningful presentation of results
- Active cooperation with other colleagues on test stand or tool in our test floors or in our clean room laboratory and handling of acids
- Forward change requests / improvement suggestions to the developer in charge
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- Customer Relationship Management: Develop and maintain strong relationships with key accounts, acting as the primary technical point of contact.
- Priority Alignment: Drive alignment between account teams and clean product line on priorities for market penetrations and defenses.
- Process Optimization: Collaborate with customers to optimize semiconductor manufacturing processes, ensuring the highest levels of efficiency and performance.
- Product Demonstrations: Organize product demonstrations and presentations to showcasethe capabilities and benefits of Lam Research technologies.
- Feedback Loop: Gather and relay customer feedback to internal teams to drive continuousimprovement and innovation in our products and services.
- Training and Education: Provide training and educational resources to customers and account teams to enhance their understanding and utilization of Lam Research technologies.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with sales, engineering, and product development teams to align customer needs with company objectives.
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- Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software programs for enhancements and new products.
- Implement new customer requirements and features in our existing application.
- Maintain and enhance existing code base by investigating and resolving problem areas.
- Demonstrate solutions through clear documentation, flowcharts, and well-structured code.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to design and develop software programs.
- May visit customer site to provide support and have ability to travel (total is less than 10%).
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In your career, let’s prove what’s possible.
- Build production-grade Python packages.
- Follow and build project scaffolds (PowerShell), follow coding standards, and reproducible workflows.
- Transform analyses into standardized currently best-known methods (cBKM)
- Process data and automate data flows; manage and optimize data structure & data bases for big data sets.
- Interact with product and service teams to identify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments.
- Interpret and communicate data analysis results and experiments to product, service & business managers.
- Design, build and maintain dashboards.
- Process confidential data and information according to guidelines.
- Support to setup iterating reports, analysis and dashboards.
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In your career, let’s prove what’s possible.
- be involved in all phases of the software development (SW) lifecycle, including the testing, analysis and maintenance of the software system
- participate in the SW deployment process ensuring qualified Software Products are successfully installed at our customer's facilities
- perform troubleshooting of system software related issues
- perform in-house & onsite support of customer install base and resolution of customer issues
- test, troubleshoot and propagate errors clearly to SW and HW Development Engineers
- setup and maintain tool simulators, testing environments, lab support to reproduce issues found in field and verify SW solutions
- understand customer technology & productivity needs and feedback those requirements into software development
- prepare presentations to Lam internal stakeholders and customers travel worldwide wherever semiconductor customers are located (up to 25%
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- Define, validate, and align technical requirements with the Account Teams, Sales Operations, and customers to ensure clear scope, feasibility, and customer fit.
- Develop Spin Clean configuration documents and prepare accurate quotes in accordance with the approved Product Option Architecture (POA).
- Create, maintain, and continuously update POAs for assigned products to reflect current product strategy, pricing assumptions, and customer requirements.
- Create new machine Non Standard Requests and link them to the appropriate product configurations to ensure traceability and process compliance.
- Develop evaluation configurations and coordinate alignment with Engineering, Process Engineering and Product Management to support technical validation and customer evaluation activities.
- Analyze and optimize product configurations to reduce costs, improve commercial competitiveness, and maximize profitability.
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In your career, let’s prove what’s possible.
- Responsible for performing professional process engineering research, development and evaluation in semiconductor environment
- Reviews processing techniques and methods applied in the manufacture, fabrication and evaluation of products including in-house lab demonstrations
- Conceives and plans projects involving definition and selection of new concepts and approaches
- Works with customer and senior engineers cross functionally to understand roadmaps, process flow, inflection points, requirements and business issues/ challenges.
- Acts as customer technology manager in the planning, data collection, analysis and reporting
- Acts as single point of contact accountable for process related customer requests
- Drives introduction and evaluation of new technologies at customer sites including new tool qualifications
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In your career, let’s prove what’s possible.
- Responsible for performing professional process engineering research, development and evaluation in semiconductor environment
- Reviews processing techniques and methods applied in the manufacture, fabrication and evaluation of products including in-house lab demonstrations
- Conceives and plans projects involving definition and selection of new concepts and approaches
- Works with customer and senior engineers cross functionally to understand roadmaps, process flow, inflection points, requirements and business issues/ challenges.
- Acts as customer technology manager in the planning, data collection, analysis and reporting
- Acts as single point of contact accountable for process related customer requests
- Drives introduction and evaluation of new technologies at customer sites including new tool qualification
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In your career, let’s prove what’s possible.
- Is the lead engineer of a development program (product), making sure that mechanical and electrical hardware and the tool software work together to meet the system specification
- Owns developing the system specification based on the product specification and configuration options
- Is accountable for resolving design tradeoffs/conflicts to ensure the design is integrated, such that the overall product performs as described in the system specification
- Assures that the system meets engineering- and compliance standards, especially in the concept and detailed design phases
- Owns BOM (bill of material) setup and execution of the documentation release plan
- Prepares all required program/product related Engineering deliverables (e.g. FMEA, technical specifications, risk analyses)
- Technical responsible that all interfaces for the entire product are well defined and working
- Participates in the cost allocation model and assures that designs meet the cost targets
- Owns developing the reliability allocation model, the reliability design approach and test plans
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