Cleanroom and Scientific Labs Process Engineer

Job description

Cleanroom and Scientific Labs Process Engineer

  

Job Description:

   

Duties & Responsibilities 

Hewlett Packard Labs seeks a talented, enthusiastic individual to work as a laboratory/process engineer to supervise the planning, operation and maintenance of a research clean room and associated analytical and test instruments.  This person will report to the Operations Manager for Hewlett Packard Labs, and work directly with researchers to understand their equipment and clean room needs.  This person will:

·  Have experience with some or all of the following: cleanroom processes, wet/dry material etching, thin film deposition, resist spin coating, photolithography and ebeam lithography, nano-imprinting, thermal annealing, the operation and maintenance of cleanroom process systems, acid and solvent wet benches, ICPRIE, ICPCVD, ALD, sputter deposition, ebeam deposition, mask aligner, and RTA.
·  Have worked with or have equivalent experience with characterization tools, optical micro scope, Dektak, Nano spec, ellipsometer, and surface profiler, SEM, FIB, AFM, EDS.
·  Be familiar with cleanroom resource procurement and management: materials, chemicals and safety protection.
·  Recommend new instrumentation for acquisition and installation; maintain existing equipment through service contracts or using internal resources.
·  Work with corporate facilities personnel to insure that infrastructure is operating properly
·  Interface with HPE health and safety and with corporate security personnel to maintain a safe working environment; be the chair of the Hewlett Packard Labs safety committee
·  Work with the fire department and other local government entities to obtain permits for equipment and operations as needed. 

Examples of activities to be supported:

·  Nanofabrication equipment and facility break/fix and preventive maintenance, training support, and tool process baseline test and maintaining. Major technical areas include Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) tools (thermal evaporator, e-beam evaporator, and sputtering), packaging and back-end equipment (wire bonder, flip-chip bonder, wafer cleaver, chip dicing saw...), wet process and various metrology tools.  
·  Work with staff to maintain Scanning Microscope systems, as well as other measurement instruments for nanofabrication.
·  Develop a collaborative partnership with the clean room and equipment users.
·  Assist staff and train users to operate a diverse range of scientific apparatus, and configure them for new experiments, develop processes and recipes, and author SOPs and related documents.
·  Follow and recommend prescribed safety rules and regulations to maintain high quality standards and a safe environment in the cleanroom.
·  Keep accurate records of instrument maintenance and repair logs.
·  Manage clean room and lab resources, order new materials, keep track of inventory, and some shipping of things in and out of the facility.

Basic Qualifications 

A Bachelor’s degree of Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field with 5 years or more working experience are required.  Experience in proper handling and disposal of potentially hazardous materials (e.g. clean room gases and solvents) and working knowledge of electrical/electronic systems are also required. Hands-on experience required, working in class 10/100 Clean Room 60-80% of the time, should be comfortable with equipment and their limitations:

·  For thin film etching and deposition: RIE, PECVD, ALD
·  For thin film metal deposition: E-beam Evaporator and Sputter
·  Metrology tools: SEM, AFM, Ellipsometer, Dektak

Job:
Engineering

Job Level:
Expert

    

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO F/M/Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to the use of arrest and conviction records, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws and will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.