RF Device Engineer, R&D

Looking for a career path in the high-tech industry? Become part of a team focused on delivering the most exciting semiconductor technology in the world! If you enjoy working with others in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and are looking for an opportunity to grow your career in this exciting industry, then Tower Semiconductor is the place to be!

Tower Semiconductor, the leading foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, provides technology, development, and process platforms for analog integrated circuits to more than 300 customers worldwide across growing markets such as communications, mobile, infrastructure, consumer, industrial, automotive, medical, and aerospace and defense, among others.

Join Tower and become part of a dynamic organization with exceptionally talented and dedicated team members who work collaboratively to provide best-in-class technological solutions to our clients.

You will be responsible for the research and development of specialty process technologies used in semiconductor manufacturing, specifically RF SOI, RF CMOS, and SiGe BiCMOS technologies. In this role, you will exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to drive innovation and technical excellence.

Your core responsibilities will include:

• Designing test structures to support process development
• Leading process integration efforts
• Conducting process and device simulation
• Analyzing experimental lot data to guide technology improvements
• As an R&D Engineer, you may also engage directly with customers to understand their technical needs and collaborate on joint development initiatives.

• Lead various process technology development projects across the company's product lines and research new applications for its technology portfolio.
• Design new devices and coordinate experiments for technology development and yield enhancement in state-of-the-annual RF and
• High Performance Analog technologies.
• Define process experiments, manage development and engineering wafers-in-process, and analyze parametric results while characterizing devices using DC and RF techniques.
• Utilize TCAD tools to support device and process development.
• Create and characterize test structures for device design and optimization.
• Collaborate with the process engineering team to develop unit processes supporting new technologies.
• Support customer engineering requests and communicate directly with customers as needed.
• Support the transfer of newly developed processes into production.

• PhD preferred, Masters or Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline or physics. RECENT PhD grads with experience in RF technologies/devices encouraged to apply.
• 3 years experience as a device engineer in the semiconductor industry, working with sub-micron devices, is a requirement.
• 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 a plus.
• Position requires 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.

Compensation: $140,000 - $156,000

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