Yield Engineer

About the role

Tower Semiconductor, the leading foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, provides technology, development, and process platforms for analog integrated circuits to more than 300 customers worldwide across growing markets such as communications, mobile, infrastructure, consumer, industrial, automotive, medical, and aerospace and defense, among others. Join Tower and become part of a dynamic organization with exceptionally talented and dedicated team members who work collaboratively to provide best-in-class technological solutions to our clients.

Responsibilities

• Maintain all released semiconductor-related processing and major areas of responsibilities include monitoring in-line defectivity levels, resolving in-line yield issues, creating inspection recipes on defect-inspection tools and providing feedback to other process engineers and management to improve the manufacturing process.
• Partner with Integration, Process, Equipment and R&D to meet performance, quality and cycle-time requirements.
• Work with our global team to troubleshoot, benchmark and improve our processes.
• Develop and sustain 0.35 to 0.13um RFCMOS/SiGe BiCMOS processes in Defectivity Monitoring.
• Investigate, identify, verify, and contain sources of particulate contamination in semiconductor manufacturing.
• Analyze defect-trend data, disposition problem wafers/lots, correlate defectivity type/level to product yield, use statistical process control techniques to improve yields, and provide corrective action recommendations to solve defectivity issues.
• Work with Process Technicians to verify response to daily issues and assist with priority and held lots.
• Lead major and minor projects involving particulate contamination and fab yield issues by working closely with device, integration, process, and other yield engineers.
• Design and oversee experiments to enhance functional and fab yield through defect reduction.
• Perform analysis of in-line defectivity, E-Test, and Probe data to analyze data from experiments or in-line data to identify and resolve problems.
• Apply statistical process control techniques to solve wafer fabrication problems.
• Research, analyze and recommend capital equipment requirements for analytical tool purchases.
• Collaborate with other teams and QA to deliver results to customers' requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum requirement is a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Microelectronic Engineering, or Solid-State Physics - Master degree is preferred, New Grads with BSEE encouraged to apply.
• Minimum 3-5 years yield/process engineering experience.
• Experience in Copper CMP is a plus.
• Demonstrated knowledge of principles, theories, concepts, and techniques of process engineering.
• Ability to execute definable portions of a project or lead own small projects.
• Strong organizational skills; demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and able to react to shifting priorities to meet business needs.
• Demonstrated ability to work well within a global team or environment.
• Six-Sigma certification is preferred.
• Strong knowledge in using Yield Analysis software.
• Strong knowledge in in-line automatic defect inspection tool (application, recipe setup, troubling shooting skill).
• Sustained ownership of day-to-day operations and mentoring technicians.

Compensation

$100,000 - $122,000