Position: R&D Engineer

Company: Tower Semiconductor

Location: Newport Beach, CA (relocation assistance offered)

Duration: Salaried

Pay Rate: $150,000 flex

JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsible for research, development and improvement of existing and newly developed devices & process technologies for manufacture of Silicon Photonics-related devices in a semiconductor wafer foundry. The employee exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria.

• Process technology development and implementation in a VLSI manufacturing, foundry environment.

• Silicon photonic device design, characterization and optimization

• Participate in and coordinate experiments toward technology development and yield enhancement. • Work with process engineering team, test team, customers to define goals and manufacturing solutions.

• Design test structures (in CAD environment) and define tests for device characterization (ICCAP, LabView).

• Provide support to resolve customer issues, problems and questions.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Expert-level understanding of silicon photonic and optoelectronic devices.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Silicon Photonics-related process and device development role or 5-year PhD program in related field.

• Specific computer skills desired: experience with optical simulation software (e.g. Lumerical) ability to read and edit mask layout data (e.g. Cadence Virtuoso software), experience with statistical data processing software (e.g. R or JMP), device and process TCAD simulation tools (e.g. Medici, Sentaurus etc.), experience with semiconductor fab lot management software (e.g. PROMIS or Workstream).