About the role
SENIOR/PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - PD SG CVD NVM role based on the published job description. Key responsibilities and requirements were extracted directly from the posting for quick review.
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Key Responsibilities
- As a Process Engineer you will be primarily responsible for starting up, developing and optimizing processes to improve product quality and reliability, working on process yield improvement, cost reduction, productivity improvement and risk management as well as resolving manufacturing line problems.
- Identify, diagnose and resolve assembly process related problems by applying failure analysis, FMEA, 8D or SPC/FDC methodology.
- Additional responsibilities include coordinating and carrying out process, equipment and material evaluation/optimization/development to implement changes at process step, leading and participating in yield improvement and cost reduction activities, handling new process baseline qualifications and managing, auditing and liaising with equipment/material suppliers to achieve yield, quality, cost and risk management objectives.
- Micron's Process Development Singapore R&D Group is looking for process development engineer to support R&D activities associated with rapid deployment of technology nodes, the process margin improvement work necessitated thereof as well as to ensure extended engagement with manufacturing on the upcoming technology nodes.
- Develop and optimize unit processes to meet the yield and quality requirements of advanced NAND products.
- Quantify benefits of innovative process and/or equipment solutions to enable early experimentation and adoption for process margin improvement Prioritize within Singapore based manufacturing CVD/PVD teams on the key technology issues that need R&D breakthroughs.
Requirements
- PhD/Masters/Bachelor degree or higher in Materials Science, Chemical/Microelectronic Engineering, or Physics with minimum 3 years hands-on experience in leading edge film deposition/implant technology work.
- A deep understanding of chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, physical phenomena and their direct application to CVD/PVD deposition in various deposition methods.
- An ability to understand and troubleshoot precursor depletion effects within three dimensional structures and come up with innovative ideas to mitigate the effects.
- Basic understanding of films and interface engineering and analysis techniques thereof – SIMS, XPS, EDX, SEM/TEM.
- Understanding of various integration and structural impacts and constraints related to film deposition processes.
- An understanding of the general process steps and process flow for memory processing, planar and vertical NAND memory in particular.