Principal Engineer, TEM Automation

Micron Technology’s vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life and our dedication to people, innovation, tenacity, teamwork and customer focus allows us to fulfill our mission to be a global leader in memory and storage solutions. This means conducting business with integrity, accountability, and professionalism while supporting our global community.

Are you passionate about focused ion beam (FIB) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)? Micron has an outstanding YE lab under Technology Development (TD) at its Singapore site. We have the most sophisticated TEMs available in the electron microscope field and state-of-art FIB tools for the preparation of TEM specimens. YE lab is crafting novel workflow and specialized automation solutions to achieve next-level efficiency, accuracy and precision of sampling and data quality. This candidate will be assigned for advanced FIB and TEM techniques to build automated process and support next generation NAND in TD. In addition, your growth opportunities include developing your knowledge of semiconductor device physics and processing and various characterization techniques. Come join a work environment where you will work with bleeding-edge Technology Development groups to develop new processes and novel methods to expedite new part type development and improve yield. Successful candidates for this position will be placed at corresponding engineer level based on previous experience and education.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop templates and recipes to automate sample preparation of various nodes in NAND technology.
• Transfer newly developed solutions to other teams in TD and global manufacturing sites.
• Develop, validate, and implement in-house architectural scripts for automatic TEM data collection, data processing and reporting to reduce time to data and improve cycle of learning.
• Apply data science on tool parameters and images/TEM data to optimize recipes and provide feedback to process teams.
• Drive automation roadmap through collaboration with instrument vendors and internal teams.
• Perform daily FIB operation and demonstration to support new technology development at Micron from wafer receiving, wafer management, maintaining systems ready for operation to sample-to-data completion.
• Quality communication to exceed internal customer’s critical requests covering topics for the high-quality TEM samples by owning or embracing innovative and sophisticated FIB techniques.
• Provide detailed pass down to the people in next shift to make smooth shift transition.
• Make contributions to optimize the existing Lab procedures and maintain the lab environment within the scope of safety requirement.
• Train colleagues to use validated solutions.
• Mentor team members to develop their technical skills related to TEM and sample preparation automation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Physics, Materials Science with at least 10 years of relevant experience in Semiconductor, Memory and/or Storage.
• Skilled experience and proven knowledge in FIB operation are preferred.
• Creative and proactive to solve problems in fast-pacing dynamic work environment.
• Experience in automation or scripting and programming skills using Python, C, etc.
• Experience in machine vision and pattern recognition.
• Self-motivated, ability to work independently and hardworking in learning new technology and knowledge.
• Be a phenomenal teammate to work with other FIB & TEM engineers and processing groups to advance the technology development.
• Positive and ambitious demeanor with effective oral and written communications.
• Excellent knowledge of thermodynamics, kinetics, crystallography, ion and electron diffraction, chemical analysis.