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Education Requirements or Equivalency: * BS degree in appropriate engineering discipline (Electrical/Physics/Physical Chemistry/Chemical) Minimum Experience/Skill Requirements: * Minimum 3 years in semiconductor engineering * Fluent in English

Job Responsibilities:

• Act as the defect module leader for 200mm factory.
• Co-Lead or Lead cross-functional teams to systematically reduce baseline defect levels.
• Basic understanding of methodology of DDE inspection and review tools, incl. EDX
• Prediction of yield and reliability impact of new defect types
• Support UPE and PCI module owner in evaluation of PCRB experiments
• Creation of Out-of-control action-plans (OCAP) for known defect issues
• Implement benchmark defect reduction systems.
• Implementation of adequate separation / filtering method for important defects ( large defect threshold, repeaters, binning, ADC, etc) together with Defect Density tool group
• Work closely with Unit Process engineering teams to identify the root cause (tool correlation, partitioning design and organization) of defect issues.
• Work closely with process engineering to implement early defect detection and tool monitoring.
• Work closely with defect metrology teams to optimize defect inspection strategy and recipes.
• Effectively communicate defect reduction progress to goals and improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate line partitioning activities within a module for DRAM products.
• Quickly identify and resolve the root cause of defect out of control events on volume DRAM products, and/or New Part Introductions and/or Technology Transfers
• Establish correlation between defects and yield on DRAM products.
• Disposition discrepant material through participation in Material Review Boards.
• Suggest defect reduction and process improvement experiments.
• Drive process implementation of baseline defect improvements through Process Change Review Board participation.
• Perform wafer, trend, and pareto analysis on module defects using Defect Management Software.
• Monitor line defect performance using SPC and develop/coordinate out of control action plans.
• Training of sustainers and associates operators for defect reduction topics within module
• Adding new detection / Control Capability