HAMR Process Development Technician

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work as HAMR Wafer Process Integration Technician at WD’s wafer fab cleanroom in Fremont, CA.

• Under the guidance of HAMR wafer process / integration engineers, candidate will collaborate with operation and manufacturing teams to move, process, inspect, measure, and disposition experimental wafers.
• Candidate will also need to make technical decisions under pre-defined defined procedures.
• With template and guideline, candidate will do routine summary on experimental and wafer cycle time data.
• Candidate will also create recipes for vacuum tools - thin film deposition, ion beam etching, and/or reactive ion etching. Other responsibilities may include calibrating, monitoring, and troubleshooting development tools.

Work schedule will be all daytime, including 4 days in weekdays and 1 day in weekend.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required. AA/AS degree or equivalent of 2-year college in science or engineering is preferred.
• Minimum of two years’ experience in wafer fab engineering / manufacturing process, preferably in magnetic heads, MEMS, or semi-conductor industries.
• Familiar with MS office software (e.g. Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, etc)
• Candidate is detail-oriented and have good communication skills
• Candidate must be able to work with minimal supervision and be highly self-directed.
• Preferred qualifications
  • Experience in Western Digital Fremont wafer fab
  • Experience in Excel VBA script or other coding language
  • Experience in JMP software or any data analysis software
  • Experience in data analysis
  • Exposure to any wafer process, such as lithography, wet etching, ion milling, reactive etching, thin films and CMP
  • Exposure to wafer-level characterization such as SEM, FIB, TEM, AFM and ellipsometry