The Role
The Senior Process Engineer will develop and optimize processes for thin-film applications, troubleshoot production issues, and standardize operations, focusing on deposition techniques and equipment qualifications.
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Summary
Atomica is seeking a driven Process Engineer to join our Surface Engineering, with a primary focus on deposition. We are looking for someone who can support existing production processes and develop processes for new programs (20+) focusing on product quality and manufacturability. Collaboration is a must as you work closely with the integration, manufacturing engineering, maintenance and production teams on development of new processes, selection of new equipment/technology, standardization and problem resolution. This role is designed for a technical leader who thrives at the intersection of advanced materials and complex vacuum hardware.
- End-to-End Development: Design and execute recipes for new thin-film applications, ensuring strict adherence to required material properties (mechanical, optical and electrical characteristics).
- Integration Collaboration: Partner with the integration team to ensure surface engineering solutions meet functional requirements for complex devices
- Tool Qualification: Lead the technical evaluation, installation, and testing of new capital equipment to meet production-ready standards.
- DOE & Optimization: Design and execute Design of Experiments (DOE) to determine process windows and optimize results. Strong fundamentals in data analysis and demonstrated critical thinking skills
- Early-Stage & Production Support: Identify and resolve fundamental process instabilities during early-stage R&D while maintaining the discipline to lead "Task Force" efforts for chronic production excursions.
- Hardware-Process Mastery: Act as the primary technical expert for resolving complex process-hardware interactions.
- Tool Troubleshooting: Help perform diagnostics on vacuum systems, RF power delivery, and gas flow controllers. Hands-on experience is highly valued.
- Statistical Process Control (SPC): Implement and monitor SPC charts in JMP to identify trends, prevent excursions, and ensure long-term process stability.
- Standardization: Author and maintain high-quality Standard Operating Procedures and technical documentation to ensure cross-shift consistency.
- PVD: Experience with RF, DC, and Pulsed DC Magnetron Sputtering, Ion Beam Deposition (IBD) and E-beam evaporation
- CVD & ALD: Deep knowledge of PECVD, HDPCVD, ALD, and LPCVD.
- Thermal: Proficiency in oxidation furnaces, annealing, and RTP/RTA.
- Plasma Processing: Hands-on experience with Bosch process (DRIE), dielectric etching, plasma ashing, and Ion Beam Etching (IBE)
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or other engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in a semiconductor microfabrication manufacturing environment.
- Deep understanding of material properties and the specific process knobs required to obtain them.
- Expert-level proficiency in JMP for data analysis, statistical modeling, and DOE.
- Proven track record of "hands-on" hardware troubleshooting. Ability to diagnose mechanical, electrical, and vacuum-related failures.
The base pay range for this role is $120,000 – $145,000 per year.
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The Company
What We Do
Atomica Corp. unleashes the power of Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) to help solve the great problems of our time. Utilizing a uniquely collaborative approach to development and manufacturing, it partners with innovative companies to deliver breakthrough MEMS-based solutions in cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, cell therapy, molecular diagnostics, genomics, 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), and more. Atomica is the largest MEMS foundry in the USA, serving customers from its 130,000 square foot manufacturing campus (with a 30,000 square foot class 100 clean room) in Santa Barbara, California. The company is ISO 9001 certified and ITAR registered. Its extensive experience spans the full spectrum of MEMS, including photonics, sensors, microfluidic biochips, and other micro components
