Equipment Engineer

If you are a self-motivated team player, who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment, passionate about building great products and learning new technologies, this is the job for you! 

Primary Objective:   

As an Equipment Engineer you will own all assigned toolsets. The preferred candidate will have the ability to troubleshoot difficult and poorly defined problems in relation to the mechanics, electronics, and process using tool knowledge/experience, SPC, schematics, and other available resources. The candidate will have extensive collaboration with the area maintenance team and process engineering. Some collaboration will be with tool vendors, other area engineers/managers, procurement, and production.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and management of 200MM and 300MM Semiconductor processing equipment in Support of Advanced Packaging processes including Fan Out Wafer Level Packaging, Interposers, Hybrid Wafer to Wafer bonding, and Die to Wafer Bonding. Highly desirable for a candidate to have a background in at least one of the following areas: Singulation, Photolithography, Solder Bumping, PVD and/or CVD Thin Films, Dry Etch, Wet Etch /Wafer Clean, Diffusion, Bond, Electroplate (ECD), CMP, or Metrology, Probe/Test (some areas may be combined).
• Work with process engineering and equipment maintenance technicians to drive root cause corrective actions of equipment failures, implement permanent solutions and eliminate chronic and long-term down events.
• Lead continuous improvement teams to drive tool matching, availability, throughput improvements and reduce risk.
• Complete new tool start-up and tool upgrades to increase fab capability, capacity, lower costs and improve yields.
• Work with minimal supervision, balancing competing priorities, to serve the needs of the Maintenance, Production, and Development organizations.
• Participate in cross-functional teams that create efficiencies across all layers of the organization.
• The job also requires performing other duties as assigned. Percentages of time spent on job duties are estimates and may vary for each position.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor of Science or in Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics or other relevant Engineering discipline.

Experience and/or Training:

• 5-8 years of related experience 
• Experience with High Vacuum and Toxic Gas Delivery systems.
• Experience with application of structured problem-solving methodology.
• Positive interpersonal skills, highly energetic and self-motivated.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to meet requirements and deliver results.
• Ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously and shift priorities to meet business needs.

US Citizenship Required: This position will require the holding of or ability to obtain government security clearance which requires U.S Citizenship. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with wafer/die bonding equipment and/or processes
• Experience with Automated Fault Detection and Classification Systems (FDC).
• Background with utilizing SPC.
• Understanding of equipment component behavior.
• Experience Integrating Equipment Maintenance Management Software