Nanofabrication Physical Scientist

Duties

• Provide acquisition, installation, facilitization, maintenance, and operation of semiconductor process equipment.
• Oversee field service engineers.
• Calibrate and optimize semiconductor processing equipment.
• Troubleshoot and repair semiconductor process equipment.
• Collaborate with vendors to update equipment software and hardware as needed to extend the lifespan of the equipment.
• Develop, optimize, and document standard operating procedures for semiconductor equipment maintenance and nanofabrication processes.

Qualifications

• Individual Occupational Requirements
• Basic Requirements: physical science, engineering, or mathematics degree with 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science.
• Specialized Experience: hands-on experience in operation, installation, facilitization, troubleshooting, and maintenance of semiconductor process equipment; micro and nanofabrication processes and techniques in areas of lithography, deposition, etching, and metrology; nanofabrication processes and techniques in sputter deposition, electron beam, and thermal evaporation, deep silicon plasma etching, and wafer dicing; maintaining high-vacuum technology, vacuum chambers, vacuum pumping systems, flanges, leak testing, and wet bench processing.
• Additional Requirements: 1 year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-9 (ZP-II at NIST) level, or a combination of education and experience as defined in the additional requirements.