Scientist II - Semiconductor Process

About the role

Leonardo DRS is looking for a confident, highly motivated Scientist with semiconductor processing and project management experience to join our Research and Development team. We are looking for a strong candidate with experience in a variety of processing areas such as photolithography, mask layout, thin film deposition, etch, and wet processing. The candidate should have experience and knowledge of how processes interact in device fabrication and be able to learn new tools and processes from both a fundamental and practical level.

This is a hands-on role, largely in the cleanroom, where the candidate will be responsible for maintaining, improving, and developing semiconductor processes to meet R&D goals and objectives. As a Scientist, you will be an integral part of DRS’ new product and technology development efforts in infrared sensors. You will interface with other team members representing a wide range of disciplines, including material science, process engineering, device physics, test engineering, and system design.

You will have hands on responsibility for specialized semiconductor device process integration, semiconductor fabrication process development, new detector fabrication, experimental design, and device characterization. In addition, you will be the technical and/or project lead on critical development projects guiding both technical direction as well as coordination of key technical resources.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop specialized processes for fabrication of photodiodes for infrared detection using both industry standard and highly customized semiconductor processes and fabrication equipment.
• Experiment, perform DOEs, and establish methods and procedures to sustain current processes as well as drive continuous improvements.
• Identify processing conditions which will best achieve the device design goals.
• Drive complex technical projects while meeting financial and schedule objectives.
• Understand process yield and yield analysis.
• Develop process flows and communicate technical requirements and assess process technology with engineers and scientists to ensure project success.
• Understand basic semiconductor device physics to comprehend the effect process, fabrication, and integration have on final device performance.
• Understand device design parameters and associated mask layout requirements.
• Construct and execute experimental plans to solve problems. Identify key input and output variables and provide analysis of results.
• Participate and contribute to multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Organize, interpret, and present results to technical peers as well as to upper management or customers.
• Accept responsibility and accountability.

Qualifications

• Education: Ph.D. in relevant discipline such as Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, or Electrical Engineering or Master’s Degree with equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience: 2+ years in semiconductor device processing and process engineering.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with a variety of semiconductor fabrication process modules such as etch, thin films, metrology, and wet and dry cleans.
• 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.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Must be able to meet security standards and able to obtain a secret clearance.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• 5+ years of semiconductor fabrication experience.
• Familiarity with photomask layout software.
• Prior experience or willingness to work in a small R&D semiconductor fab environment.
• Basics of implementation of statistical process control (SPC).
• Experience operating and/or interpreting data from a scanning electron microscope, FTIR, ellipsometer, or other thin-film characterization and metrology tools and techniques.
• MATLAB, MATHCAD, LabView, JMP, SpotFire, MiniTab and other relevant engineering software packages to analyze data.

U.S. Citizenship required. This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment.