The group you’ll be a part of

The Customer Support Business Group focuses on enabling our customers with premier customer support throughout their lifecycle with Lam. We drive performance, productivity, safety, and quality of customers installed base performance and deliver service and lifecycle solutions for their most critical equipment and processes.

The impact you’ll make

As a Product Engineer at Lam, you will operate on cutting-edge technology, harnessing atomic precision, material science, and surface engineering to push technical boundaries. Your role involves developing new and advanced process formulations, defining equipment hardware to meet processing requirements, evaluating test data, and coordinating design requirements to ensure compatibility of processing methods. Your expertise and knowledge play a crucial role our customers success, making an impact on the next generation of semiconductor breakthroughs.

In this role, you will directly contribute to the development of thin film deposition processes and equipment.

What you’ll do

•Conduct process engineering research, development, and evaluation in support of Lam’s cutting-edge semiconductor equipment.

•Review and enhance processing techniques and methods applied in the manufacture and fabrication of products.

•Work with vendors to develop and optimize materials used in our deposition equipment

•Develop and sustain new processes and process improvements to reduce production costs and increase yields.

•Compile and analyze test data to establish next steps in process development and determine appropriate limits and variables for process specifications.

•Partner cross-functionally and with customers to understand roadmaps, process flow, inflection points, requirements, and business challenges.

•Contribute to next generation product development and release activities supporting the semiconductor roadmap.

•Work closely with customer to introduce and drive adoption of new technologies at customer sites.

Who we’re looking for

•PhD in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or Physics with 5+ years of experience. Materials Science PhD with a focus on (or subsequent work experience with) ceramic materials is strongly preferred.

Preferred qualifications

•Knowledge of Material synthesis and material characterization.

•Experience managing external vendors

•Background in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD), or Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD).

•Background in Plasma Physics, Reactive Ion Etching (RIE), Atomic Layer Etching (ALE), Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP), Capacitively Coupled Plasma (CCP).

•Experience in semiconductor, process design, deposition, etch dielectrics or conductor, metal films, etc.

•Familiarity with working in a laboratory and on semiconductor equipment with experience in surface preparation and analytical techniques.

•In-depth understanding of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and/or Design of Experiments (DOE).

•Highly proficient in MATLAB, Python, or other similar scientific computing language. 

•Working knowledge of statistical analysis and problem-solving methodologies. 

•Experience with statistical tools (JMP, Minitab, etc.).

•Experience working in a collaborative and matrixed environment with diverse teams, semiconductor customers, and/or partners.

Our commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.

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