Senior Cleans Process Engineer

Senior Cleans Process Engineer

NXP’s Front End Operations plays an essential role in ensuring manufacturing excellence and delivery of high quality, scalable, and cost-competitive semiconductor devices. The Cleans Process Engineer opportunity is in a high-volume semiconductor wafer manufacturing environment. Prior experience with ownership and responsibility for developing, optimizing, and sustaining cleans processes for advanced semiconductor devices is required. This role plays a critical part in ensuring high material quality, yield, and process stability for high-volume manufacturing.

Experience with LAM Davinci Backside Etch, LAM Novellus Plate, Akrion hoods, and Screen hoods or similar style wet etch platforms is highly desirable.

• Develop and optimize cleans processes for silicon semiconductors.
• Implement and maintain SPC (Statistical Process Control) and FDC (Fault Detection and Classification) systems.
• Analyze metrology data to monitor material quality and drive improvements.
• Reduce defectivity mechanisms and improve process control.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for process deviations and yield issues.
• Participate in and/or lead cross-functional and lean activity teams.
• Work with minimal supervision, balancing competing priorities, to serve the needs of the engineering and manufacturing communities.
• Drive equipment performance to maximize capacity and yield performance.
• Improve cost performance of equipment.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership in cleans process improvement.

• Must have a B.S. Degree in Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Solid State Physics or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in cleans process engineering in a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing environment.
• Strong background in SPC & FDC is required.
• Positive interpersonal skills, highly energetic and self-motivated.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously and shift priorities to meet business needs.
• Demonstrated application of structured problem solving methodology along with creative thinking to drive root cause analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to meet commitments and deliver results.
• Demonstrated experience with Design of Experiments.
• Demonstrated experience with automated fault detection and control systems.
• General understanding of equipment component behavior.

NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.