The posting
Job Description Summary
The PCVD Equipment Development Engineer supports the development, qualification, optimization, and transfer of advanced PCVD equipment from initial installation through High Volume Manufacturing (HVM). The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on CVD Carbon equipment experience, particularly with Flowable Carbon and/or Applied Materials (AMAT) TessQ, including equipment troubleshooting, hardware optimization, and root cause analysis.
Job Description
Main Responsibilities
- Lead and support equipment development activities for new and existing PCVD platforms, subsystems, and enabling technologies.
- Execute hands-on characterization, engineering experiments, and learning plans to evaluate equipment capability, reliability, and manufacturability.
- Analyze equipment and process data to identify improvement opportunities, drive design learning, and mitigate technical risk.
- Develop, evaluate, and implement hardware modifications to improve equipment performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost of ownership.
- Support development and optimization of CVD Carbon equipment, including chamber hardware, RF systems, vacuum, gas delivery, thermal systems, and supporting subsystems.
- Support equipment build, installation, startup, qualification, and technology transfer activities at development and manufacturing sites.
- Troubleshoot complex equipment issues through systematic root cause analysis and implementation of effective corrective actions.
- Collaborate with equipment suppliers, facilities, process engineering, manufacturing, and global development teams to achieve project objectives.
- Manage engineering change activities including design reviews, validation plans, risk assessments, and implementation tracking.
- Develop equipment roadmaps and Continuous Improvement Projects (CIPs) required to advance toolsets through EMI maturity levels and prepare them for HVM transfer.
- Drive reliability, uptime, and productivity improvements through structured engineering methodologies and hands-on technical execution.
Other Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain technical documentation including equipment specifications, engineering reports, lessons learned, qualification reports, and development roadmaps.
- Present project progress, technical findings, and recommendations to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Support supplier evaluations, design reviews, factory acceptance testing, and onsite equipment commissioning activities.
- Ensure compliance with Micron safety, environmental, contamination control, and cleanroom requirements.
- Participate in global development projects and support technology deployment across multiple manufacturing sites.
AI Responsibilities
- Integrate AI-assisted tools and data-driven methods to improve engineering efficiency, accelerate problem-solving, and enhance decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation for equipment monitoring, data analysis, predictive maintenance, and workflow optimization.
- Share and apply AI-enabled best practices that improve equipment development effectiveness and engineering productivity.
Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on semiconductor equipment installation, startup, maintenance, and qualification experience.
- Experience collaborating with suppliers and cross-functional teams on equipment improvements.
- Hands-on CVD equipment experience, preferably with Carbon deposition equipment and Flowable Carbon and/or AMAT TessQ platforms.
Technical Skills
- Equipment troubleshooting, root cause analysis, hardware modification, and optimization.
- Knowledge of vacuum, RF, gas delivery, abatement, thermal, robotics, and chamber systems.
- Knowledge of CVD Carbon equipment and the interaction between chamber hardware, RF delivery, vacuum, gas delivery, cleaning/seasoning, and equipment performance.
- Equipment characterization, verification, qualification, and performance data analysis.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, schematics, P&IDs, and technical documentation.
Preferred Qualifications
- PCVD/PECVD equipment development experience.
- Hands-on experience with CVD Carbon deposition equipment, particularly Flowable Carbon and/or AMAT TessQ.
- Experience troubleshooting and optimizing Carbon chamber hardware and critical subsystems such as RF, vacuum, gas delivery, thermal, and cleaning systems.
- Equipment transfer from R&D to manufacturing/HVM.
- Chamber hardware, process kit, vacuum, or subsystem development and optimization.
- Equipment component selection and integration, including pumps, abatement, chillers, and gas systems.
- Knowledge of EMI progression, technology qualification, and HVM readiness.
- FOAK equipment introduction or technology development experience.
Soft Skills
- Strong hands-on engineering mindset with a passion for solving real equipment problems.
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional and global development environments.
- Strong project ownership and execution capability.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple technical projects simultaneously.
- Independent problem solver with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.
