Staff Engineer 74152

Samsung Austin Semiconductor is one of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the world and an integral part of Central Texas for more than 27 years, driving job generation, economic impact and engagement with the surrounding community.
Samsung Austin Semiconductor serves a global customer base with broad semiconductor process technology offerings that impact everyday life including mobile, graphic, consumer, networking/high performance computing, Internet of Things, RF and automotive. Through successful collaborations with foundry customers and a continuous drive to develop the most cutting-edge technologies, Samsung Austin Semiconductor has become a major player in the foundry market. Samsung Austin Semiconductor's technology portfolio ranges from 65nm to 28nm using planar transistor technology to the more advanced 14nm 3D FinFet technology.
With more than 4,500 employees, Samsung Austin Semiconductor is a premier and growing employer who provides a great place to work, is committed to environmental stewardship and being a good corporate citizen. Our employees are the key to our success and we invest in our people with competitive compensation & benefit packages, career development opportunities and programs that enhance physical, emotional and intellectual well-being. Our employees work at various locations throughout Central Texas including the main plant on East Parmer Lane in northeast Austin, a satellite office near Pflugerville and the construction site in Taylor, Texas. Learn more at semiconductor.samsung.com/us/sas.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Specific Job Duties: Perform semiconductor process monitoring and tuning to prevent excursion in high volume manufacturing by driving quality improvement. Lead deployment of cross-functional projects, which have visibility to company executives. Lead continuous improvement efforts by analyzing and addressing the gaps to improve quality indices. Champion in line and backend of line monitoring control and continual improvement. Drive the semiconductor fab post monitoring activities, utilizing statistical process control methodology to improve and minimize risks to mass production. Enforce compliance of quality operation systems in the semiconductor fab to reduce quality risk and to meet quality goals. Lead the review and approve of high-risk semiconductor tool and process releases by assessing risk to yield, reliability and device functionality. Provide guidance, communication and collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, support group counterparts to reduce and identify quality risks and improve on the business process. (Multiple Openings)
Shift: 1st
Skills and Qualifications:
Education, Training, Certification(s) and Minimum years of experience required
Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Electronics Engineering or a related field and 120 months of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation. Alternatively, will accept 144 months of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Software, and Tools
Requires 10 years of experience involving the following:
1. Semiconductor Fab-to-fab benchmarking of quality systems and set up;
2. Ability to identify gaps across the semiconductor fabs for various quality systems and implement solutions to address audit findings;
3. Experience in implementing various post process & equipment related change point monitoring methodologies;
4. Possess the technical skill in approving high risk semiconductor tool & process releases by assessing risk to yield, reliability & device functionality;
5. In-depth hands on working experience in semiconductor process technologies such as Etch, Metrology & Defect reduction;
6. Able to lead & drive task force teams to disposition of impacted material and improve quality by reducing scrap;
7. Possess the specialty skill in statistical data analysis of inline, defect, yield and electrical test data to make sure that pre & post change point data matches;
8. Ability to drive and qualify new semiconductor vendors & processing materials by assessing risk through effective post change point monitoring activities;
9. Setup & Establish new semiconductor technology business process;
10. Champion the technology development team to improve the key performance index for reduction of quality events;
11. Experience in enforcing compliance of quality operation systems in the semiconductor manufacturing fabs; and
12. Drive the semiconductor tab module post monitoring issue resolution to prevent recurrence.
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