Sr. Research Technician

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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Under the direction of a Research Scientist/Engineer, performs technical research tasks in support of quantitative and qualitative projects in areas such as optics, lasers and photonics, nanotechnology, environmental testing, energy, or related fields with minimum oversight requirement. Identifies data sources and collects, organizes, and measures data in a manner that ensures quality control. Performs validation testing and interprets results for reporting. Keeps detailed logs of ongoing trials/tests. Responsibilities may include field research, equipment set-up and process troubleshooting.

Job Summary:

As part of the team, the successful candidate will have responsibility for processing III- V wafers in a cleanroom environment.  Process could include photo lithography, wet and dry etch, thin film deposition and metrology. Candidate will qualify tools and processes, and process wafers per instructions, digital or paper. They will run material based on both POR methods as well as experimental flows. Candidate will characterize wafers and devices using various metrology like ellipsometry, profilometer, optical microscopes, laser confocal microscopes, interferometers etc. They will also need to co-ordinate the processing requirements with different relevant stakeholders to ensure efficient cycle times. As part of process development, hands-on wafer fabrication and characterization of pilot lots is required.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

·Establish feasibility of new processes with hands-on processing of pilot lots on production equipment

·Characterize results using quantitative metrology tools

·Optimize established processes

·Document methods and workflows in MES-ready format

·Prepare training materials and train technicians on newly developed R&D flows

·Collaborate with device physicists, other research technicians, and process development engineers to participate in overall product R&D cycle   

Job Qualifications:

·  High School Diploma or equivalent experience in related technical discipline required

·6+ years of related experience desired

·Computer skills desired – Word, Excel & Powerpoint

·Ability to communicate clearly in written and spoken English

·Ability to use inspection equipment (microscopes, interferometers), semiconductor fabrication equipment, and wet bench chemistry

·Direct experience with key wafer fabrication processes is necessary

·Familiarity and/or strong desire to learn microelectronic/semiconductor and MEMS fabrication techniques

Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce

Salary Range:

Pay Transparency

The anticipated salary range listed for this role is only an estimate. Actual compensation for successful candidates is carefully determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, education/training, work experience, key skills, and type of position.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. ​