Equipment Engineer, Staff

SkyWater is searching for an Equipment Engineer, Staff for our site at Kissimmee, FL. 

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! 

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: Photolithography, PVD and CVD Thin Films, Dry Etch, Wet Etch /Wafer Clean, Diffusion, Bond, Electroplate (ECD), CMP, or Metrology (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.
• Management of new tool installation, 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.

 Required Qualifications

• Graduate of Engineering program or Associate of Science + 10 years relevant Semiconductor Industry Experience in Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering or Materials Science, Physics or other relevant Engineering discipline.
• 6+ years of experience within respective area of expertise. Experience should include one or more of the following: Semiconductor Wafer Handling, RF Power, High Vacuum, Toxic Gas Delivery systems, Precision Optics, Wet Chemistry.
• Demonstrated experience with application of structured problem-solving methodology.
• Positive interpersonal skills, highly energetic and self-motivated.
• 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

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering or Materials Science, Physics or other relevant Engineering discipline.
• Semiconductor Wafer Handling, RF Power, High Vacuum, Toxic Gas Delivery systems, Precision Optics, Wet Chemistry.
• Positive interpersonal skills, highly energetic and self-motivated.
• Experience with Automated Fault Detection and Classification Systems (FDC).
• Strong background with utilizing SPC.
• High level of understanding of equipment component behavior.
• Experience Integrating Equipment Maintenance Management Software