About the role
AI summarisedPrincipal Engineer in Yield Engineering at GlobalFoundries, a leading semiconductor foundry. Responsible for identifying and resolving process integration and yield issues, developing custom processes, and driving continuous improvement in a 300mm fab environment.
FoundryFull-timeGeneral
Key Responsibilities
- Identify, resolve, and improve process integration and yield issues and related problems
- Perform project management and data analysis
- Identify and resolve process integration issues and related problems
- Develop custom or derivative processes to meet customer needs
- Support new designs with module characterization and design rule development
- Work with cross function teams to reduce defect activities and resolve technical & yield concerns
- Develop and improve test structures that enable fast and rigorous characterization of process
- Drive CIP (Continuous improvement plans) to deliver organizational goals
- Build and develop defect source library and tool's defect source fingerprinting
- Perform product/process partitioning study for yield & defect characterization to drive defect improvements
- Ensure that processes are well documented, failure modes are assessed and have mitigation and detection in place
- Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements
Requirements
- Shows mastery of many aspects within one technical discipline, with group-wide recognition as a senior member of a technical team
- Initiative and creativity result in significant changes to existing processes and methods, leads development and implementation
- Solves complex, novel and non-recurring problems
- Contributing inventor on a few patents
- Contributes to conference or journal publications
- Works on small projects or on sets of tasks of large projects and assignments
- Trains and guides others in the own work area on technical skills as needed
- Ability to break down information for internal and external customers in a systematic and communicable manner
- Participates in and/or leads (project) teams
- Limited and supervised contact at engineering level
- Maintains awareness of industry trends
- Actively engages with suppliers (demos, in-house work)
- Attends consortia technical reviews
- Specialized knowledge, imaginative thinking and sophisticated analytical techniques
- Requires a technical (University) degree
- BS + 4-5 years of experience or MS + 2-4 years PhD + 1-2 year