Seagate Technology

Senior Vacuum Process Engineer

Seagate Technology

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Bloomington • Minnesota • United States

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Salary

💰 $92,300 - $131,900 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Develop, implement, optimize, and control vacuum processes (deposition, reactive etching, ion milling, or magnetic annealing) within a manufacturing setting.
  • Ownerships will change over time, allowing for professional growth
  • Make extensive use of metrology, defect analysis, and statistics to ensure processes are capable and targeted
  • Support and optimize new processes developed to build the latest generation of magnetic recording heads based on HAMR technology
  • Continually use Six Sigma methodologies and techniques to maximize the performance, and minimize the variability, of product through active hands-on completion of structured experiments and OFATs (One Factor at a Time) experiments on the vacuum processes you manage
  • Develop systematic and automated methods for maintaining process control across multiple tools, including implementing SPC charts and Out-of-Control Action Plans (OCAPs) and Material Dispositioning instructions.
  • You will also be able to learn and design new Automated Process Control methods and systems that you will implement onto your toolsets to enable real-time and error-free adjustments as needed
  • You will also be expected to maintain all process documentation and ensure process congruency across Seagate’s recording-head manufacturing sites.
  • You will evaluate and introduce new production equipment into the manufacturing line and create all necessary associated manufacturing documentation, instructing and certifying production personnel during all working shifts on documented process procedures
  • Overseeing manufacturing issues (scrap, rework, cycle-time reduction, multiple-path maintenance) will also be a top priority

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Material Science, Chemistry, Chemical & Electrical Engineering or Physics and 5+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in a similar field and 3+ years of experience, or PHD and 0+ years of experience or equivalent education and experience
  • Have a background in vacuum science or processing
  • Have an understanding about how to determine key process input variables using statistical DoE (Design of Experiment) methods to maximize performance and yield of product
  • Demonstrated ability to statistically analyze data and perform defect analysis to increase process capability and to optimize process yields
  • An understanding of magnetic principles and phenomena especially in relation to thin films
  • Working with, or formal education of, applying engineering statistics to solve engineering problems
  • Knowledge of design of experiments (methods of design)
  • Demonstrated experience developing and optimizing vacuum-based processes, preferably via Design of Experiment.
  • Hands-on familiarity with vacuum related tooling and processing PVD deposition processing or ion etching (reactive and/or ion mill) or thermal annealing wafer processing
  • Sputter deposition with a preference to reactive sputter deposition
Benefits
  • eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program
  • medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • short-and long-term disability
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • health savings account
  • dependent care
  • healthcare spending accounts
  • paid time off, including 12 holidays
  • flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy
  • a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
vacuum processesdepositionreactive etchingion millingmagnetic annealingmetrologydefect analysisSix SigmaDesign of ExperimentPVD deposition
Soft skills
ownershipprofessional growthprocess documentationproblem-solvingcommunicationteam collaborationtrainingcertificationprocess congruencycycle-time reduction
Certifications
Bachelor's DegreeMaster's DegreePhDSix Sigma certificationengineering statistics certification