Scientist II

Job Responsibilities

• Model new device architectures that you or your colleagues may propose.
• Understand device design parameters and specification requirements and their impact on device performance.
• Help shape device architecture choices through semiconductor device modeling.
• Understand advanced semiconductor device physics to comprehend the effects process, fabrication, and integration have on final device performance and communicate technical requirements to engineers and scientists to ensure success.
• Construct and coordinate experimental plans to solve problems. Identify key input and output variables and provide analysis of results. Suggest improvements or fixes or experiments to help unravel unknowns.
• Lead the execution and data analysis of those experiments as appropriate.
• Participate and contribute to multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Organize, interpret, and present results to technical peers as well as to upper management or customers.

Qualifications

• Doctorate (PhD) Degree in relevant discipline such as Materials Science, Physics, or Electrical Engineering.
• 3+ years in semiconductor device physics and modeling.
• Strong coding skills to maintain, modify, and create device performance models for a variety of solid-state device architectures and phenomenology.
• Ability to understand and analyze data related to semiconductor device performance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• The candidate must be organized, proactive, and able to communicate to both highly technical and programmatic audiences with equal ease.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Knowledge and experience with a variety of semiconductor fabrication processes.
• Experience with designing, fabricating, or testing infrared photodetectors and sensors.
• Knowledge of photodiodes or other sensors or photovoltaics.
• Ability to independently conduct various electrical test measurements on devices and analyze the data to draw conclusions.
• MATLAB, Python, Lumerical FDTD, LabView, JMP, SpotFire, MiniTab and other relevant engineering software packages to perform modeling and/or analyze data.