Senior Cleans Process Engineer

Business Line Description

NXP’s Front End Operations plays an essential role in the company’s success by ensuring manufacturing excellence and delivery of high quality, scalable, and cost-competitive semiconductor devices to create a winning advantage for our Customers.

Senior Cleans Process Engineer

The Cleans Process Engineer opportunity is in a high-volume semiconductor wafer manufacturing environment. Prior experience with ownership and responsibility for developing, optimizing, and sustaining cleans processes for advanced semiconductor devices. This role plays a critical part in ensuring high material quality, yield, and process stability for high-volume manufacturing. Experience with LAM Davinci Backside Etch, LAM Novellus Plate, Akrion hoods, and Screen hoods or similar style wet etch platforms is highly desirable.

• Develop and optimize cleans processes for silicon semiconductors
• Implement and maintain SPC (Statistical Process Control) and FDC (Fault Detection and Classification) systems.
• Analyze metrology data to monitor material quality and drive improvements.
• Reduce defectivity mechanisms and improve process control
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for process deviations and yield issues.
• Participate in and/or lead cross-functional and lean activity teams.
• Work with minimal supervision, balancing competing priorities, to serve the needs of the engineering and manufacturing communities
• Drive equipment performance to maximize capacity and yield performance.
• Improve cost performance of equipment.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership in Cleans process improvement.

• Must have a B.S. Degree in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Solid State Physics or other relevant engineering discipline is required.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Cleans process engineering in a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing environment.
• Strong background in SPC & FDC is required.
• Positive interpersonal skills, highly energetic and self-motivated.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously and shift priorities to meet business needs.
• Demonstrated application of structured problem solving methodology along with creative thinking to drive to failure root cause.
• Demonstrated ability to meet commitments and deliver results.
• Demonstrated experience with Design of Experiments.
• Demonstrated experience with automated fault detection and control systems.
• General understanding of equipment component behavior.

NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.