Senior Process Engineer, PVD (JR13686)
STMICROELECTRONICS PTE LTD Senior Process Engineer, PVD (JR13686)
Senior PVD Process Engineer responsible for developing, qualifying, optimizing, and sustaining metal deposition processes on Applied Materials (AMAT) Endura platforms. The role supports semiconductor manufacturing by ensuring process stability, film quality, equipment matching, defect control, and production yield improvement.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and optimize metal PVD deposition processes on AMAT tools.
- Support process qualification, ramp-up, and transfer to high-volume manufacturing.
- Monitor and improve key process metrics, including Film thickness, Sheet resistance, Uniformity, Adhesion, Stress, Defectivity, Yield
- Perform tool setup, chamber matching, and baseline process tuning.
- Troubleshoot process excursions, tool drift, abnormal defects, and yield loss issues.
- Analyze metrology, SPC, and inline data to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
- Collaborate with equipment, integration, yield, and production teams.
- Support preventive maintenance, chamber health checks, and process stability initiatives.
- Drive continuous improvement to reduce cost, cycle time, and process variation.
- Document process procedures, specifications, and control plans.
YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCES
- Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline or similar
- 5 years of PVD process engineer experiences
- Extensive knowledge of Metal deposition processes. Additional experiences with copper deposition will be a plus point.
- Experiences with primarily AMAT Endura tool type.
- English business proficiency