Principal Engineer

SENIOR PRINCIPAL ESD ENGINEER

Start: ASAP

Location: Nijmegen, NL

Within the Regional Quality Center the Reliability department is responsible to ensure quality and reliability by providing associated services to our clients Business Lines (BLs) and factories. The Reliability department qualifies new semiconductor processes, packages, and products. This includes Electro Static Discharge (ESD) and Latch-Up (LU) qualification. The department is the competence center for reliability based qualification strategies, failure modes, stress testing, and associated procedures and processes.

- The sr Principal ESD engineer ensures the full process and way of working for the validation of intrinsic IC ESD-LU behavior and steers the department strategy for ESD service development.
- The main task of the principal ESD engineer is to ensure perfect execution of the ESD/LU service, in close cooperation with two technicians.
- The engineer optimizes the service performance by KPI management, equipment and tool maintenance/calibration, technician training, and process and procedure definition and deployment.
- The engineer closely liaises with the development projects and consults on the applied tests and methodology. In alignment with our BL partners new ESD/LU services are identified and established.
- The engineer supports the Team Leader with respect to decision making on equipment capacity and capability
- The engineer participates and contributes to the ESD Methodology Council.

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor or Master degree (Physics, Electronics)

Knowledge on semiconductor technology and/or reliability, within the scope of ESD/LU mechanisms.

Experience within ESD: MM, HBM, CDM, and LU test methods, specifications, and equipment.

Excellent communication skills (English)

Good negotiation skills, to interact with equipment and tool suppliers.

Team worker, capable to support and instruct ESD/LU technicians

High drive for ESD/LU service extension and improvement, result oriented Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.