About the role
AI summarisedProcess Engineering Technician at a leading semiconductor equipment company, providing hands-on process support, wafer evaluation, and data collection for process development and manufacturing. Works in cleanroom environment on rotating shifts, collaborating with engineering teams to enable process characterization and continuous improvement.
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Key Responsibilities
- Executes process support for development and manufacturing according to process documentation, run cards, and experiment plans.
- Performs wafer metrology and inspection using approved tools to collect accurate process data.
- Supports DOE by running wafers, tracking splits, ensuring proper disposition, and validating compliance.
- Evaluates wafers with visual inspection, defect review, measurement verification, and basic data checks.
- Assists in process characterization and qualification by collecting and reporting measurement results.
- Monitors process conditions, wafer status, and lot flow; escalates abnormalities to Process Engineering.
- Conducts process checks, rework, and wafer recovery per procedures and instructions.
- Documents work via logs, records, summaries, and shift notes for data integrity and compliance.
- Helps update procedures, checklists, and instructions based on feedback and changes.
- Generates Quality Notifications for deviations or anomalies and supports root cause analysis.
Requirements
- Complies with Applied Materials EHS, cleanroom, chemical handling, and contamination control requirements, including proper use of PPE.
- Adheres to process discipline and data integrity standards, ensuring accurate execution and reporting of experimental and manufacturing activities.
- Proactively reports safety concerns, process risks, and abnormal conditions and participates in required safety and quality training.
- Demonstrates proficiency in process flows, wafer handling, metrology techniques, inspection methods, and experimental execution within defined procedures.
- Applies established analytical thinking to identify abnormal results or trends and escalates findings appropriately.
- Understands how process support, metrology, and experimental execution contribute to process development, yield learning, and business objectives.
- Communicates clearly with Process Engineers, Metrology Engineers, and cross‑functional teams regarding experiment status, data quality, and observed issues.
- Provides effective shift handovers to ensure continuity of process activities.
- Works in cleanroom and lab environments, requiring use of PPE such as coveralls, gloves, safety glasses, and chemical protection as required.
- Performs tasks involving standing for extended periods, wafer handling, and movement between process and metrology areas.