Plasma Dry-Etching Engineer, ICP/RIE, Ash Process
Seagate Technology
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Derry/Londonderry • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Develop, characterize, and optimize RIE, ICP and plasma ash processes for wide range of applications
- Design and tune process recipes to achieve target etch rates, profiles, uniformity, critical dimension control, and material selectivity
- Support pattern transfer challenges for advanced device architectures at the nanoscale
- Process owner for multiple ICP, RIE and Plasma Ash tools to ensure process stability and repeatability
- Diagnose and resolve process excursions and hardware-related issues in collaboration with equipment suppliers and maintenance teams
- Support tool qualification, acceptance testing, and process transfers
- Utilize metrology and characterization techniques such as SEM, AFM, ellipsometry, and profilometry to characterize patterned features
- Maintain thorough documentation of processes, results, and best practices
- Partner with lithography, deposition, integration, and device engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of etch and ash steps into the overall fabrication flow
- Participate in technology transfers to the product development engineering team
- Manage and analyse datasets to correlate experimental results with device performance and reliability
- Contribute to Seagate’s IP portfolio in the form of invention disclosures, patents, trade secrets, peer-reviewed journal articles, and/or white papers
Requirements
- PhD or Master’s degree in Materials Science, Physics, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline
- Greater than three years, hands-on experience working on Plasma Dryetching (ICP and/or RIE) and/or Ash processes in semiconductor or wafer fabrication
- Comprehensive understanding of plasma etching, plasma-surface interactions, etch chemistries and process control fundamentals
- Experience using semiconductor metrology tools (e.g., SEM, AFM, ellipsometry) is highly desirable
Benefits
- Health – Private Healthcare, for employees and dependents
- Company sick pay and medical leave
- Occupational healthcare service
- Employee assistance programmes
- Group income protection
- On-site gym/ exercise classes / personal trainer
- Work Life Balance – Annual leave
- Flexible working hours
- Part-time working
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Enhanced paternity pay
- Bereavement leave
- Finance – Pension – employer contributory scheme
- Life assurance
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Competitive base pay
- Company bonus scheme
- Reward and recognition
- Employee savings scheme
- Perks at work discount programmes
- Employee discount scheme
- Pay for civil / jury duty
- Career – Degree / non degree assistance
- Externally accredited training and development opportunities
- Service awards
- LinkedIn learning
- Learning & development programmes
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
RIEICPplasma ash processesprocess recipesetch ratescritical dimension controlmetrology techniquesSEMAFMellipsometry
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingdocumentationdata analysiscommunication
Certifications
PhDMaster’s degree