Wafer Process Technician (Semiconductor) - Urgently Needed

Are you a Process Technician that is looking to join one of the top companies within semiconductor manufacturing industry?    Are you looking to further your career and grow?     Do you have experience performing technical tests and experiments for process engineering within R&D?

If you answered yes to those questions, then apply today!    Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified candidates to work onsite with our customer in Fremont, CA.

Interested?

Essential Duties and Responsibilities - Other duties may be assigned. Performs technical tests and experiments for process engineering within R&D. Performs set up of processing equipment. Monitors, audits, and provides guidance to line operators. Processes test runs and prepares records, charts, and graphs of results for presentation to engineering to identify yield problems or test new products. Provides technical assistance to process development and engineering personnel.

Major roles and responsibilities.

• Performs process engineering lab activities for customer demo and/or C&F process experiments. This includes sample preparation, sample chemical treatment and running wafer flows on Lam tools.
• Performs measurement on metrology tools to collect experiment results including thin film measurement, CD measurement and SEM imaging.
• Understand process requirement and works with minimal supervision for execution of experiments. Creates process recipes from scratch and tunes process recipes for robustness. Provide suggestions for process recipe improvement.
• Understands Lam tools operations, able to clear basic alarms and applies troubleshooting skills to reduce tool downtime.
• Conducts statistical process control (SPC) and etch rates including measure, execution, analysis and reporting to ensure Lam chamber performance is under control and in-spec. Alert for any trend or out-of-spec issue and come up possible causes and troubleshooting actions.
• Works from customer instruction to determine target pattern feature and perform first sample cleaving using microscope / top-down SEM and micro-cleavers. Creates or modifies ppt instruction for others to follow.
• Provides process activities and lab protocol training for new process engineers, new Process Technicians or field service engineers on running the lab equipment, performing sample preparation, and following all the lab protocols.
• Assists others as first level of contact person on clearing alarms, lab operation and lab protocol questions.
• Works with demo engineers and metrology team to develop metrology recipe.
• Recommends improvement of experiment execution for quality and efficiency
• Works with lab operation team to improve lab safety, customer IP and lab protocols.

Here's what you will receive: Pay: $35-$38/hr DOE + shift differential

Duration: Temp to Hire Schedule: Day shift: Monday-Friday 6am-2:30pm
Swing shift: Monday-Friday 4pm-12am

Required Skills / Qualifications:

• NCGS with associates or BS degree in electronics, material science, chemistry, physics
• Four+ years' experience in semi-conductor industry building or troubleshooting role.
• Able to work up to shifts in a clean room environment wearing PPE (bunny suit, safety glasses, masks, shields, gloves, safety footwear) if needed.
• Consistently demonstrate ability to be flexible and responsive to changing priorities (ex., rework, overtime)
• Willing and able to install components from a working height between 12'-71' and reach into machines to perform tasks.
• Operate computer interface and navigate diagnostic software.
• Proficient with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams)
• Effectively read, write, and communicate with others in English.

Preferred Skills / Qualifications:

• Wafer exp on Semiconductor or Lab
• Running operations on any tools (Etch or any wafer types of tools)
• Microsoft applications
• Semiconductor ac or equipment company

Job Types: Full-time, Contract, Temporary

Salary: Up to $38.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Wafer/Semiconductor: 2 years (Preferred)
• Cleanroom: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person