Director of MEMS Process Development

An exciting company in the San Francisco Bay Area, is looking for a Director of MEMS Process Development to facilitate manufacturing development and production of their ground breaking healthcare product. The Director would work with a team focused on the development and commercialization of a medical products to help improve care to patients throughout the world.

Responsibilities

· Manage relationship and day to day interaction with external foundry partners currently fabricating the company’s MEMS and Semiconductor components

· Oversee the creation and maintenance of standardized test structures to monitor processes and provide data for development and improvement of the current device

· Manage experiments and material in line at manufacturing partners keeping material moving and accepting material upon completion

· Oversee development of tests to determine functionality of completed material

· Interface with assembly, balancing engineering and production in the face of shifting priorities involving wafer allocation, lot timing, etc.

· Manage the transition to production: pre-production (on-going), ramp, and stabilization

· Troubleshooting and yield improvement for processes and product

· Ability to identify and mitigate high risk areas of development, identify root causes, and then develop and implement solutions as required

· Drive development processes to standardization and reliability tests while supporting a strong interdependent culture.

· Work closely with a relatively small, but world class multidisciplinary development team communicating constantly to coordinate efforts bringing the product to market

Required Skills

· BS, MS, or Ph.D. in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, or related field

· Experience with MEMS fabrication processes in a production MEMS environment

· Experience in Process Integration in the MEMS or Semiconductor industry

· Experience working with a foundry to develop a MEMS process a plus

· Hands-on MEMS process development

· Good interpersonal skills and ability to drive a manufacturing partner with a sense of urgency