Application Engineer IV

Job Details

Location:

Santa Clara, CA

Salary: $ - $

Benefits:
Comprehensive benefits package (health, wellness, and related programs).

Time Type:
Full time

Employee Type:
Assignee / Regular

Travel:
Yes, 25% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:
Yes

The candidate will be an individual with demonstrated expertise, preferably in two or more of the following areas:

• Optical thin film metrology including scatterometry, UV-visible and IR techniques
• X‑ray based metrology including XRF, XPS, HR‑XRD
• Elemental analysis using SIMS
• Electrical film metrology including both contact and non‑contact techniques
• Optical defect inspection including unpatterned wafer inspection and edge inspection
• Contamination analysis using TXRF‑VPD and VPD‑ICPMS
• Nanomechanical techniques using nano‑indentation and profilometry using AFM
• Photoacoustic techniques

He/she will have several years of work experience on metrology applications with multiple techniques. The candidate will work primarily with process teams across Applied and develop metrology applications to support product and process development. He/she will also implement metrology best practices and provide data analysis for projects. The successful candidate will also be willing to learn application of new metrology techniques.

The role will involve supporting Applied teams worldwide; travel will be limited and expected to be less than 10%.

• Develop applications based on optical film metrology techniques to qualify semiconductor process tools.
• Actively engage with key vendors to understand the latest metrology techniques and influence the roadmap for future solutions.
• Technically lead difficult and complex metrology application activities.
• Lead internal and customer technical review meetings to address metrology solutions.
• Define customer technical requirements, through deep analysis and clear understanding of the product roadmap.
• Define new methodologies to optimize system performance for specific applications.
• This technical staff position leads and/or develops and executes exceptionally complex technology and engineering projects and leads research and development of new technologies as appropriate.
• Works on critical complex issues that impact longer‑term product development and business success measured by incremental revenue growth, market share increases, key customer penetrations, time‑to‑market improvement and commercial value of the work.
• Within safety guidelines design, perform, collect data, analyze and compile reports on unusually complex engineering experiments and provide solutions that are highly innovative and ingenious.
• Develop innovative solutions as part of a proven track record of significant technology contributions. Recognized internally across Business Units as one of the limited number of technical experts in their field of expertise.
• Conceive and implement new technology, normally named as primary inventor on numerous critical patents and recognized through awards and/or published papers within the last five years.
• Leads and collaborates to contribute to the development of new principles and concepts.
• Guides less experienced engineers in utilizing metrology techniques to define methods and new technologies and apply them on unusually complex systems.
• Leads and collaborates to contribute to the development of new principles and concepts.

MS equivalent or higher in engineering or science with at least 5 years of relevant work experience.

• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field.
• Demonstrates in‑depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function.

• Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements.

• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution.

• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.

• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and…