Seeking a superstar to head up the Engineering function, reporting to the Busines Unit General Manager in a leading wafer fabrication, engineering and manufacturing company. This is a fantastic opportunity with a firm that has a great culture and success record in its industry segmant.
** This position will be based in New Albany, IN which is part of the Louisville KY Metropolitan area. The client will pay for relocation. This is Direct Hire position and the right candidate will have deep experience in Wafer Engineering and Fabrication.**
Summary/Objective: This position will be responsible for developing wafer fabrication process, integration flows, and metrology tools for enabling novel devices to be fabricated. This position will work with the engineering, manufacturing, sales, and marketing teams to ensure that products being developed for our Glass Core Technology customers meet performance, design, and price requirements, and they can be further fabricated and integrated into the customers’ final products.
Essential Functions/ Responsibilities:
- Engineering leadership over GCT technology development and implementation, including:
- Through glass via (TGV) fabrication and filling technologies
- Wafer-based fabrication processes to allow electrical, optical, and fluidic interconnects.
- Process integration flows that enable novel device fabrication
- Metrology and test methodologies for characterizing wafers and devices
- Work with Sales and Marketing and customers to understand the devices and fabrication/integration processes that should be developed as part of the GCT technology roadmap.
- Collaborate with operations to understand process and production issues and bottleneck, to ensure future development efforts provide continuous improvement solutions.
- Work closely with other internal development/product groups that are incorporating GCT components in their products to ensure the GCT devices work in their applications and understand enabling technologies required to be developed to align with their product and technology roadmaps.
- Create and execute technical project mgmt. plans with the Project Management Office. This includes people/team direction, and schedule management.
- Work jointly with Application Engineering to resolve product technical issues during and after customer design in.
- Grow and develop the GCT engineering team.
“The responsibilities as defined are intended to serve as a general guideline for this position. Associates may be asked to perform additional tasks depending on strengths and capabilities”
Preferred Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in wafer engineering, and wafer fabrication and engineering.
- Minimum of 5+ years of Engineering Management experience.
- Expertise with Glass, Silicon, Semiconductor, or Hard drive wafer process development and integration, qualification and high-volume manufacturing strongly desired..
- Experience with fab equipment including lithography (i-line), PVD, CVD, wet etch, dry etch (RIE), ECD Cu plating, electrical test, and characterization is strongly desired.
- Demonstrated success at developing process flows which integrate process modules (litho, deposition, etch) to deliver new products for customers on time.
- Experience managing and growing an engineering group.
- Ability to work across functional groups and “lead from the side”
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with operators and senior management.
- Ability to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance requirements.
- Strong technical and verbal/written communication skills
Preferred Education:
- Master’s Degree or greater in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or related field.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $180,000.00 - $220,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Experience level:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work setting:
- In-person
- Manufacturing facility
Ability to Commute:
- New Albany, IN 47150 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- New Albany, IN 47150: Relocate with an employer provided relocation package (Required)
Work Location: In person