Materials Scientist - ALD Coating Technology

As a Process Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in designing and optimizing manufacturing processes for display and semiconductor manufacturing technologies. You will collect and analyze data, perform hardware characterization, and troubleshoot engineering issues. You'll also measure film properties, generate technical documentation, and engage with customers to resolve concerns.

Process Engineers collaborate with vendors and suppliers, and become familiar with implementing new technologies and products. You will experiment, learn, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the semiconductor and display industries, partnering with our globally recognized R&D teams on state-of-the-art research and development projects.

The Materials Center of Excellence (MCOE) team is responsible for developing and productization of chamber materials and critical components to enable Applied Material Customers to modify materials at atomic levels on the industrial scale with world class productivity and yield. To achieve this, we employ some of the best, brightest, and most talented people in the world who work together as part of winning team delivering results.

Seeking passionate ALD subject matter experts to join our high performing and growing ALD Coating Technology team within the MCOE organization. Partnering with business units, this highly visible role is recognized as an ALD coating subject matter expert within the company with an emphasis on productization and execution from ideation/development to commercialization with end-to-end responsibility for successful ramp at our customers.

You will interface with senior leadership in engineering, productivity, supply chain, and operations to drive innovative ALD component coating solutions that bring value to our customers in device performance, yield, and cost of ownership.

You will be central in strategic decision making responsible for the development of ALD coatings in both hardware and process in the Materials Center of Excellence. The team has a record of commercializing innovative ALD films and solving highly complex engineering issues for a range of products to address our customers High Value Problems (HVPs).

You will be a key contributor for new chamber architecture product development and components in our next generation products that will be used in manufacturing cutting edge devices that are and will change the world.

• This position requires 5+ years or experience or equivalent in ALD coatings and related hardware development, a BS degree in Engineering (Masters or Ph.D. preferred)
• Drive innovative materials and methods and apply them to hardware advances and/or perform hardware characterization on significantly complex systems for a range of programs, within safety guidelines.
• Develop, plan and execute material engineering projects for a range of products
• Design, collect data, analyze and compile reports on significantly complex materials engineering experiments for a range of products
• Assess the technical trade-offs compared to cost trade-offs for material solutions
• Define and validate material measurement/analytical techniques. Train engineers on the techniques and guide them in the interpretation of the data
• Define and implement new methodologies, define and apply new technologies, and/or troubleshoot and resolve significantly complex materials engineering issues/problems for a range of products
• Interact with key customers to resolve significantly complex engineering issues for a range of products to address our customers High Value Problems (HVPs)
• Generate internal and external documentation for products, presentations, technical reports for integrated products and generate engineering specifications for integrated products

• Materials (fundamental knowledge of material properties and manufacturing methods of)

• ALD coatings (metals/oxide/fluoride), ideally in the context for use in semiconductor equipment component coatings
• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field
• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

• Demonstrates Surface Chemistry/Interactions of metal/oxide/fluoride materials in chemical and plasma environments relevant to semiconductor processes including

• Inorganic chemistry
• Experience of evolution of surface chemistry and measurements (in-situ and ex-situ)
• Corrosion/Erosion

• Fast learner, owns outcomes, and leads by example
• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution

• Strong problem solving skills; Determined to root cause isolation; Systematic 'systems thinker’; Hands-on
• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions

• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines

• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view