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About the Role
SkyWater is hiring a Defect Metrology Staff Engineer for our Austin TX site. This role will provide defect metrology recipe application and equipment engineering support across KLA, Applied Materials, and Camtek platforms, including brightfield, darkfield, bare wafer, macro inspection, and SEM review systems.
Responsibilities
- Writing, optimizing, and managing defect inspections
- Meeting goals for tool uptime, availability, and matching
- Managing the budget for their toolset
- Supplier engagement
- Engage individually and as a team member to identify critical defects and report the information back to Fab Process / Support teams
- Responsible for tool maintenance, interfacing with vendors, problem solving and making recommendations for work to be done
Requirements
- A technology related BS degree plus 5 years related experience or MS degree plus 3 years' experience
- Demonstrated technical expertise in understanding defect metrology recipe setup and optimization, as well as possessing solid knowledge on equipment engineering
- Prior experience organizing and leading projects
- Ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously and shift priorities to meet business needs
- Proven autonomy identifying critical defects with ability to solve unfamiliar process issues
- Fluent in Data / Statistical analysis and Statistical Process Control
- Experimental design for recipe development and optimization
- Interpersonal, communication, and presentations
- Innovative thinking
- Risk management
- Strong understanding of tool hardware / theory, equipment install, startup, and qualification
- Understanding of fab process, technology, and flow
- Preferred experience working with KLA, Applied Materials, and Camtek inspection and review platforms
- Knowledge of fault detection and process control
Skills
- Defect metrology recipe application
- Equipment engineering
- KLA, Applied Materials, and Camtek platforms
- Brightfield, darkfield, bare wafer, macro inspection, and SEM review systems
- Data / Statistical analysis
- Statistical Process Control
- Experimental design
- Fault detection and process control
Location
- Austin TX
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5 years related experience (with BS)
- 3 years experience (with MS)
Education Level
- BS degree in a technology related field
- MS degree
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) match
- Life insurance
- Benefit eligibility day one
- Medical
- Dental
- Mental health benefits
- Vision
- Legal planning
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- On-site cafeteria
- Fitness facility
- Self-serve market
About the Company
- SkyWater's ingenuity helps improve lives around the world by manufacturing U.S. made semiconductors that are essential ingredients of modern life.
- Working in our Minnesota headquarters, Florida, or Texas location — employees join together to improve the world.
- Explore what’s possible. Joining our U.S. - based team means contributing to and learning about the commercialization of some of the most exciting technologies the world has ever seen.
- We are turning “science fiction” into everyday reality through technologies such as superconducting, 3D integrated circuits or computer chips, carbon nanotubes, photonic logic devices, micro electro-mechanical systems and other emerging device topologies.
- We manufacture products for aerospace and defense, medical, automotive, consumer and industrial markets.
- Our customers include emerging leaders who rely on our intellectual property security and quality manufacturing services.
- SkyWater’s values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration, Empowerment and Growth Mindset guide us to cultivate an empowered, learning environment.
- We also invest in developing highly skilled, dedicated employees — and employees who are entering the workforce for the first time, from the military, and a variety of educational backgrounds.
- SkyWater offers an exciting environment where the brightest semiconductor minds come together to achieve exceptional results.
Equal Opportunity
- SkyWater complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities unless doing so would cause an undue hardship.
- Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability.
- To request reasonable accommodations, to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Human Resources at 952-851-5200 or Recruiting@SkyWatertechnology.com.
- EOE, including disability/vets
- We will never ask applicants to pay fees, purchase equipment or gift cards, or provide financial information before a formal offer of employment has been accepted.
- If you receive a suspicious communication claiming to represent our company, please verify its authenticity by contacting our recruitment team at recruiting@skywatertechnology.com before responding.