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Field Process Engineer 4

HillsboroHybridFull TimePosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • cleanroom environment
  • personal protective safety equipment
  • cleanroom suit
  • on-call

Nice to have

  • SPC
  • DOE
  • multiple tasks simultaneously
  • shifting priorities
  • business needs
  • deadlines

Role summary

Lam Research is seeking a Field Process Engineer 4, a customer-focused expert on their semiconductor equipment. This role involves providing process support, evaluation, and documentation for hardware modifications and upgrades. Key responsibilities include supporting customer installations and training, identifying design improvements with product groups, designing and conducting experiments, analyzing data, and partnering with customers to address process deviations through root cause analysis. The engineer will also develop new or modified processes, define best known methods, and collaborate with hardware engineering. This role requires a PhD or MS/BS with significant experience in a relevant scientific field, proficiency in data analysis tools, and excellent communication and customer relationship skills. The position involves working in a cleanroom environment and may require on-call availability. Hybrid work model applies.

The impact you’ll make

At Lam, as a Field Process Engineer you are a customer-focused expert on our equipment, pushing the boundaries to meet customer needs. You’re responsible for completing process support, evaluation, and documentation of process outputs for hardware modifications and upgrades. You play a vital role in supporting the customer in installations, training, and identifying design improvements with product groups.

What you’ll do

  • Provide process support, installation, resolve and improve process/system/productivity, and develop processes of new applications of Lam equipment at customer sites.
  • Serve as key field support for Beta sites, evaluations, or first-in-fab installations.
  • Design and conduct experiments, collect data, analyze results, generate reports, and provide recommendations to optimize device architecture and process modules.
  • Partner with customers to meet requirements for new technology process, to support existing processes, and to address process deviations through root cause analysis.
  • Develop new or modified processes, define best known method process recipes, and partner with the hardware engineering to define chamber requirements and characterize hardware designs to meet customer performance requirements.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams and customers to understand their needs, technology roadmaps, process flow, requirements, and business challenges.
  • Represent Lam to our valued customers and deliver exceptional customer satisfaction.
  • Present technical and marketing materials with a win-win mindset to keep customers informed about products and services to address their needs.
  • Provides technical leadership, support, and instruction for Field Service Engineers, Technicians, sub-contractors, and customers on installs, repairs, operations, and coordinates application of new procedures.
  • Collaborate with Field Service Engineers on complex problems impacting process output.
  • Coordinates statistical analysis of failure rates and develops continuous improvement plan (CIP).
  • Recommends design changes to key technical solutions, and process development, and monitors performance trends.

Who we’re looking for

Minimum Qualifications:

  • PhD in Electronics, Chemistry, Physics, Material Science, or related field; or Masters of Science with 3+ years of relevant work experience; or Bachelors of Science with 6+ years of work experience.
  • Proficiency in computer applications, including data analysis tools, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software.
  • Excellent communication, written and verbal, and customer relationship skills.
  • Ability to work in a cleanroom environment, wearing personal protective safety equipment, or cleanroom suit, and on-call if needed.

Preferred qualifications

  • In-depth understanding of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and/or Design of Experiments (DOE).
  • Effective organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, reacting to shifting priorities, and meeting business needs and deadlines.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams, customers, and partners.
  • Collaborative mindset in matrixed environment.

Our commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.

Our Perks and Benefits



At Lam, our people make amazing things possible. That’s why we invest in you throughout the phases of your life with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits. 

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