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National’s Maine facility processes eight-inch silicon wafers using CMOS and BiCMOS technologies.  The operation manufactures 7 x 24 and employs 600 people.  National has operated in Maine since 1987.  The eight-inch factory opened in 1997, and is certified to ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001.

Product Engineer Responsibilities:

• Build relationships with product lines to understand new products, their schedules, and their status.

• Work closely with the product lines to understand each product's sensitivity and wha,t from a fab perspective, will improve that product line's product portfolio performance.

• Establish experiments to assess product sensitivity and determine the best yield space for each product.

• Work with integration to define process flow and operations to optimize product yield in manufacturing.

• Identify process variation improvements that will improve product performance.

• Drive teams with integration and process engineering to improve variation.

• Proactively identify product yield optimization where products are not meeting defect limited entitlement.

• Drive improvements in test, process and/or product design to address yield.

• Hold strategic users group meetings with product lines to identify process capability opportunities for the fab.

• Identify strategic capability improvement project and work with integration and process engineering to implement.

Requirements:

BSEE, BS Micro-E or equivalent and a minimum of 5 years product engineering experience required. This position will require travel, possibly international.

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