RF Device Engineer, R&D

Responsibilities

• Research and development of specialty process technologies used in the manufacture of semiconductors, specifically RF SOI, RF CMOS, and SiGe BiCMOS technologies.
• Develop methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria, exercising independent judgment.
• Design test structures, integrate processes, simulate processes and devices, and analyze experiment lots.
• Interact directly with customers to assess their needs and participate in joint development.

• PhD preferred, Masters or Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline or physics. RECENT PhD grads with experience in RF technologies/devices encouraged to apply.
• Minimum 3 years experience as a device engineer in the semiconductor industry, working with sub‑micron devices, is required.
• Strong understanding of device physics, process integration, and characterization of CMOS or BiCMOS technologies.
• Experience with RF‑CMOS and SOI technologies is preferred.
• Experience with RF characterization is a plus.
• Experience with Synopsys TCAD tools and Cadence Virtuoso is a plus.
• Very strong analytical and people skills.
• Use of multi-disciplinary approaches to problem solving.
• Competence in emerging technology areas important to Company.
• Experience working with a semiconductor fab and fab environment.
• Ability to lead various process technology development projects in the company’s product lines.
• Research new applications of the company’s technology portfolio.
• Design new devices and coordinate experiments for technology development and yield enhancement for state‑of‑the‑art RF and High Performance Analog technologies.
• Define process experiments and manage development and engineering wafers‑in‑process. Analyze parametric results and characterize devices using DC and RF techniques.
• Use TCAD tools to assist with device and process development.
• Create and characterize test structures for device design and optimization.
• Work with the process engineering team to develop unit processes in support of new technologies.
• Support customer engineering on various customer requests and communicate directly with customers as needed.
• Support transfer of newly developed processes to production.

• Pay range:
  Expert - Staff: $140,000 - $156,000.
• Tower Semiconductor encourages inquiries from talent at all levels where pay will be based on experience.