Process Development Engineer (Spector)

Location: US - MA - Beverly; onsite work supporting hands-on deposition, etch, and metrology systems

Salary: $93,000–$118,000 per year, plus a bonus opportunity

Company

hirify.global designs, manufactures, and services advanced deposition and etch equipment used to produce semiconductor devices and other technologies powering digital products.

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 repeatability, throughput, uniformity, and reliability.
• Lead root-cause investigations and implement data-driven process and equipment improvements.
• Prepare qualification reports and present technical results to customers and cross-functional engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field with at least 5 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with at least 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience developing, characterizing, optimizing, or qualifying thin-film deposition and etch processes in semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, or a related advanced technology environment.
• Hands-on experience with vacuum-based deposition, etch, materials processing, and thin-film characterization or metrology.
• Experience with four-point probe measurements, film stress characterization, ellipsometry, profilometry, depth profiling, X-ray fluorescence, or film-thickness measurement systems such as NanoSpec.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with Design of Experiments, Statistical Process Control, Measurement System Analysis, failure analysis, and root-cause analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ion Beam Etch, Ion Beam Deposition, Physical Vapor Deposition, sputtering, or related ion-source technologies.
• Experience with magnetic, magnetoresistive, piezoelectric, or other advanced thin-film materials.

Culture & Benefits

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