Equipment Engineer, Yield Technology

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

The Yield Technology Equipment team provides defect detection, metrology, analysis, and sourcing to quickly identify and mitigate defect excursions in the fab. We collaborate with other process areas to give an early indication of the viability of process conversions. We value a safe working environment, ensuring high quality data, and working as a team to achieve our common goals.

As a Yield Technology Equipment Engineer, you will work with optical, eBeam, review, and / or metrology equipment. Equipment owners plan, direct, and implement equipment related activities and vendor actions to maximize the efficient use of tool time and resources. This work will help ensure the RDA and metrology tools and engineers are providing critical information to our internal customers in all phases of the manufacturing cycle.

In addition, the equipment engineer may be called on to help high volume manufacturing locations solve critical gap issues on optical and eBeam systems installed in production fabs.

• Write recipes to automate toolsets, close defect gaps, and improve efficiency of inspection and review recipes.
• Collaborate with module owners to ensure recipe quality.
• Solve recipe issues that are identified through quality checks or by process owner.
• Take on projects related to inspection and review to improve automation and efficiency of toolsets.
• Maintains records of recipe changes and create recipe training guides to improve future node inspection or review techniques.
• Create new inspection and review techniques and sampling methods.
• Work closely with technology development organization and high volume manufacturing sites to align on tool strategies and techniques.
• Track and monitor tool maintenance and work with vendors on tool issues.
• Track and monitor statistical process control charts.
• Work as a liaison between Micron engineering and vendors.

• Knowledge of semiconductor equipment and processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Analysis of large data sets.
• High degree of organization and detail oriented.
• Proactive problem solving and data driven decision making.
• History of working as both an individual contributor and as part of a team.

• BS/MS in Engineering or Physics (required)
• Experience with semiconductor inspection equipment

Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans, benefit programs that help protect your income, paid family leave, a robust paid time-off program, and paid holidays.

Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.