Senior Process Development Engineer (Spector) (Semiconductor)

Location: On-site at a manufacturing partner's facility in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States; the conditions also list Waltham, Massachusetts.

Salary: $113,053–$151,738 per year, plus a bonus opportunity.

Company

hirify.global designs, develops, manufactures, and services complex deposition and etch systems used to produce advanced semiconductor devices and other digital technologies.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end process qualification and customer acceptance readiness for advanced deposition and etch systems.
• Translate customer specifications and manufacturing use cases into validation plans, success criteria, risk assessments, and milestones.
• Characterize, optimize, and validate thin-film deposition, etch, and metrology processes.
• Analyze process, equipment, and metrology data to reduce variability and improve process robustness, repeatability, and manufacturing readiness.
• Lead cross-functional root-cause investigations and implement validated technical solutions.
• Prepare qualification reports and technical data packages for internal stakeholders, customers, Factory Acceptance Tests, and onsite inspections.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Materials Science, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline with at least 8 years of relevant experience; or a master's degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience.
• Experience developing, characterizing, optimizing, or qualifying thin-film deposition and etch processes in semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor capital equipment, or related advanced technology environments.
• Hands-on experience with vacuum-based thin-film processing and characterization methods, including four-point probe, film stress, ellipsometry, profilometry, depth profiling, X-Ray Fluorescence, and film-thickness measurement systems.
• Experience with ion-source technologies such as Ion Beam Etch, Ion Beam Deposition, Physical Vapor Deposition, or sputtering.
• Experience applying Design of Experiments, Statistical Process Control, Measurement System Analysis, failure analysis, and root cause analysis.
• Strong analytical, communication, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with magnetic, magnetoresistive, piezoelectric, or other advanced thin-film materials.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration across Research and Development, Manufacturing, Final Test, Operations, Product Marketing, and customer engineering teams.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Holiday, vacation, and sick time, plus flexible spending and commuter benefits.
• Life, accident, and disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance, identity theft remediation, and emergency travel assistance.