Process Improvement Specialist

Are you looking for a challenging role where you can utilize your skills in process development to drive innovation and improvement?

• Develop and optimize unit processes to meet the yield and quality requirements of advanced products.
• Quantify benefits of innovative process and/or equipment solutions to enable early experimentation and adoption for process margin improvement.
• Prioritize within manufacturing on the key technology issues that need breakthroughs.
• Integrate and troubleshoot processes as part of cross-functional teams driving yield and quality improvement.
• Participate with peers on technology choices for upcoming nodes and translate future technology device needs into clear process requirements.
• Identify disruptive processes early on and work with manufacturing and R&D to identify viable path forward.
• Process development will include performing fundamental research, hardware evaluations, as well as testing processes for novel applications and generating intellectual property relevant to our industry.
• Initiate and manage experiments to widen process margins as well as to test out manufacturability of next node solutions.
• Identify process simplification opportunities and drive cross-functional teams in implementation.
• Incorporate best known manufacturing methods into early development phase of upcoming nodes.
• Design and implement advanced process monitoring and control methodologies.
• Serve as a technical expert contributing to technical projects for improvements to processes, procedures and equipment.
• Lead team or sites or suppliers on complex, multi-disciplinary projects in quality focused meetings, process and yield improvement meetings, cost and productivity improvement meetings.
• Provide advice and counsel to management on significant technical issues. Leads and initiate innovation projects through patents/technical papers.
• This position requires communications and collaboration with partners both locally and globally. Adherence to our Intellectual Property protection policy is mandatory.
• Be part of the continuous worldwide engagement with suppliers pushing for breakthrough solutions.
• Ownership of module business process.

• Bachelor's/Master's/Ph.D. in Materials Science, Chemical/Microelectronic Engineering, Physics or relevant field of studies.
• Deep understanding of flow dynamics, thermodynamics, physical phenomena and their direct application to Diffusion deposition in various deposition methods.
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot precursor depletion effects within three-dimensional structures and come up with innovative ideas to mitigate the effects.
• Basic understanding of films and interface engineering and analysis techniques thereof – SIMS, XPS, EDX, SEM/TEM.
• Understanding of various integration and structural impacts and constraints related to film deposition processes.
• Understanding of the general process steps and process flow for memory processing, planar and vertical NAND memory in particular.
• Working knowledge of data analysis systems e.g.: Y3 to facilitate analysis of experimental data.
• Working knowledge of Design of Experiments (DoE).
• Proven ability to collaborate with local and overseas teams on projects.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with ability to convey the message in concise and effective manner both in local as well as remote communications.
• Ability to be a self-motivated individual and be adaptable.
• Proven ability to work in a demanding & dynamic environment and able to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Opportunity to travel for extended periods of time to work on technology development.
• Display Micron Value of People. Innovation, Tenacity, Collaboration and Customer Focus.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package including medical insurance, retirement savings plan, and paid time off.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.