Photolithography Process Engineer (80-100%)

About the role

A high-performing photolithography team is looking for a Photolithography Engineer to develop and optimize photolithography processes used in semiconductor manufacturing. The role involves advanced lithography equipment, collaboration with cross-functional teams and contributing to long-term tool strategies, stability, uptime and process performance.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure processes meet production program and yield goals, and address yield and rework issues
• Work with equipment and material vendors to develop new solutions and improve existing processes
• Develop new techniques, modify existing designs and coordinate process improvement projects
• Analyze process data to identify trends, optimize performance and troubleshoot issues, including implementing and regularly checking SPC
• Independently plan and implement new machinery into the production line
• Work with process integration, wet etch, diffusion, metals, dry etch and implant teams
• Support some metrology tools such as CD and overlay measurement
• On-call duties on weekends and public holidays as required by production, with participation in the on-call meeting

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Materials Science or Physics) with 5+ years of industry experience, or a master's degree with 3+ years, or a PhD with industry experience
• Extensive experience in wafer photolithography operations, especially coating and exposure in steppers, in a thin-film or semiconductor wafer manufacturing environment
• Good English and German language skills
• Ability to work in a cleanroom environment

Required skills

• Familiarity with automated wafer factory software such as SPC and MES, and experience extracting, manipulating and analyzing data
• Strong understanding of optics and immersion lithography
• Data science and programming proficiency preferred