RET Layout/Mask Engineer

About the role

In this role, you'll work at the intersection of fundamental research and high-volume manufacturing, turning process innovations into production-ready technologies that power electronics everywhere. As a Resolution Enhancement Techniques (RET) Layout Engineer, you will architect new TI products and make our customers' visions a reality. You will define, design, model, implement, and document analog, digital, and RF integrated circuits (ICs).

Responsibilities

Will include, but are not limited to:

• Create layouts for setup, evaluation, and monitor of lithography/etch wafer processes.
• Work with fabrication process engineering and integration teams to determine specifications.
• Use design rules and/or existing layouts to create/modify test features.
• Maintain a list of measurement coordinate locations.
• Support and interaction for all fabs and technologies required.
• Create layouts for OPC development/monitor.
• Work with other RET engineers on layout and floor plan of test reticles for OPC model calibration and recipe development.
• Work with RET engineers to layout scribe modules for OPC model calibration/testing.
• Create layouts for reticle measurement and disposition.
• Work with other RET engineers and the PDK team to define specifications.
• Maintain a list of measurement coordinate locations.
• Work with RET, scribe, and design teams to create rules for layout placement.
• Develop and implement automation for producing layouts.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry or related degree
• Proficiency with EDA layout tools (Cadence suite, Synopsys, etc.) and scripting (e.g., Python, SKILL, Perl)
• 5+ years of experience in Layout/Mask design.

Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on experience in design or PDK development with direct experience at a semiconductor company
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills for cross-team collaboration
• Experience working with PG flows
• Strong lithography knowledge
• OPC experience

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere.