Process Development Engineer - Dallas

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About the job
Here's your chance to work as part of a dynamic and challenging engineering team on the latest semiconductor technology within the Advanced Technology Development team as a Process Development Engineer.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating test algorithms and test programs for advanced technology and component assessment leveraging parametric on-wafer automated test systems (Keysight, Keithley tester platforms) and auto-probers (Accretech, Tel, Electroglas)
• Collaborate with process integration engineers, reliability engineers, test engineers, and SPICE modeling engineers for creating test standards, test program development requirements, and data collection to meet technology development milestones
• Partnering with technologists to ensure robust characterization solutions are available for emerging and pathfinding technologies with novel components
• Generating and delivering test programs to the fab manufacturing test teams for production process monitoring
• Driving efficiency and continuous testing improvements through automation
• Characterizing all component types across a wide range of process, bias, temperature
• Building infrastructure to enable efficient characterization to support rapid learning cycle technology development

The person performing this role must be capable to plan effectively, drive schedules, meet critical deadlines on multiple tasks in parallel, lead technical discussions in their area of expertise, and work effectively across organizational boundaries. They must be able to clearly communicate project status and actions. Additionally, they must be able to interface with multiple organizations and work well on a diverse team to accomplish goals.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Engineering Physics or related
• 5+ years of industry experience in Test and Measurement with emphasis on the Keysight/Agilent test platforms 4070 and/or 4080 based test systems

Preferred qualifications:

• The ideal candidate will have expertise in testing fundamentals, experience with semi-automated and automated characterization methods, tools, and equipment, understanding of semiconductor device physics, and programming experience
• Experience and proficiency in the following areas is also preferred: test and measurements with parametric testers (Keysight, Keithley platforms), programming with SPECS (Keysight), KTE (Keithley), basic programming experience with MATLAB, Labview, C, and Unix Shell; and an aptitude for running various software scripts and utilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Working well in a team environment is imperative in this role
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
• Good listener and excellent verbal and written communication skills