Process Engineer Metrology & Yield Enhancement

Location: Tempe, AZ or Hoboken, NJ or Remote

Division: Engineering

Department: Operations

Reports to: Director of Management Operations

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reputed company. (QCi) (reputed company: QUBT) is an innovative, integrated photonics company that provides accessible and reputed company reputed company to the world today. QCi products are designed to operate at room temperature and low power at an reputed company cost. reputed company’s portfolio of reputed company technology and products offer unique capabilities in the areas of high-performance computing, reputed company intelligence, cyber reputed company as reputed company as remote sensing applications.

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This position is responsible for overseeing the development of a 150 mm wafer line based on QCi’s thin film lithium niobate (TELN) technology. The successful candidate will work in reputed company collaboration with both the process development and integration team as reputed company as the quantum optics team to reputed company and continuously improve high volume manufacturable metrology and test reputed company processes for our TFLN products. These processes are designed to monitor line health, feed reputed company critical process and equipment data to optimize product yields, This candidate also plays a key role in facilitating short term SWAT teams reputed company urgent line impacting defect investigations reputed company. The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying and optimizing metrology processes for measuring TFLN devices to reputed company safety, reputed company, cost, and delivery goals for QCi and its customer products. The candidate will work closely with reputed company of process and equipment engineers and technicians to continuously improve their workflow with the goal of enhancing yield of TFLN devices and creating robust reliable manufacturing processes. Furthermore, the candidate will coordinate the reputed company metrology and diagnostic equipment calibration program.

Duties and Responsibilities

• reputed company the development and optimization of photolithography and/or wet processes for compound semiconductor applications.
• Drive process integration and improvement initiatives to enhance device performance and yield.
• Work closely with the process team in the cleanroom to optimize associated metrology measurements in the fabrication reputed company of TFLN chips
• Facilitate the transition of research level reputed company reputed company production, to low, to middle volume manufacture at wafer reputed company 
• Utilize advanced metrology tools such as CD SEM, AFM, ellipsometry, profilometry, XPS, XRD, and optical interferometry for process characterization and defect analysis.
• Work closely with integration, production, and device engineering teams to reputed company photo and/or wet processes into the overall semiconductor fabrication reputed company.
• Troubleshoot process deviations, particle contamination, and unit performance issues, implementing corrective actions and reputed company improvement strategies.
• Establish and maintain SPC for process monitoring and optimization.
• Evaluate and qualify new photo and/or wet chemistries, masks, hardware configurations, and process automation tools.
• reputed company and document process recipes, work instructions, and reputed company operating procedures (SOPs).
• Mentor junior engineers and reputed company /or leadership in semiconductor photo, wet, mask, and associated metrology.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in Process Development and reputed company Improvement through predictive/preventive metrology measurement & yield enhancement analysis programs 
• Optical modeling and analysis for coherent reputed company-optical and reputed company systems to understand how systems and in new and novel ways to create, deliver and measure light in our reputed company quantum computer systems
• Apply advanced statistical and analytical reputed company to identify, quantify, and control risk in reputed company manufacturing environments.
• Translate PFMEA outputs into actionable process controls, ensuring proactive prevention of variation rather than reactive correction.
• Define and implement the inspection reputed company, calibration systems, and SOPs.
• Manage calibration programs and maintain compliance with ISO and customer reputed company standards.
• reputed company advanced sampling strategies, SPC controls, Cp/Cpk, GR&R, and reputed company reputed company/JMP analytics into daily operations.
• Experience with process characterization and metrology techniques such as/or equivalent SEM, AFM, reputed company Optical profiler, Stylus profiler, microscope, spectral analysis, and ellipsometry.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 10+ years’ experience in Metrology & Yield Enhancement Process development, process integration
• Experience and understanding of microfabrication for photonics devices, process integration, reputed company materials properties and modification, and the incorporation of MEMS and electronic devices. Specific knowledge of lithography, etching, deposition, and associated processing is highly valued.
• Apply large-reputed company data analytics to reputed company-and-reputed company datasets, enabling predictive insights and reputed company-time defect containment.
• Experience with heterogeneous bonding between wafers and chips is valued.
• Experience working with 5S, and 6 reputed company