Process Development Engineer

£TBC pa | Blantyre, Glasgow, G72 0BN | Permanent

Company Brief

Sivers Photonics (a subsidiary of Sivers Semiconductors AB) is the world’s most advanced supplier of customised III-V compound semiconductor laser devices, which are critical to high growth optical communications, sensing and wireless markets.  Our photonic laser devices are enabling next generation applications including artificial intelligence, data-centres and quantum technology.

We are a key strategic supplier to many Fortune 100 and Silicon Valley customers and collaborate with leading academic institutions and industry research centres throughout the world.

From our UK based foundry near Glasgow, Scotland, we provide end-to-end design, manufacture and qualification for early phase prototypes and high-volume production, supporting up to 100mm wafer sizes on InP, GaAs, GaSb and GaN substrates.

We currently employ 77 staff across roles in R&D, wafer fabrication and backend assembly & test, as well as in various commercial roles.

Role

Sivers Photonics is seeking an individual who is able to develop new and improved processes for the fabrication of III-V-semiconductor wafers for InP optical components. The process development engineer will join the Process Integration team, working in strong partnership with the Device Development and Operations teams to transform device prototypes and ideas into reliable, stable and manufacturable components. You will work in collaboration with staff from a wide range of engineering backgrounds to solve challenging problems with real commercial impact.

We are seeking an individual with the ability to chain different processes together, understanding the impact of each manufacturing process in feeding forward and feeding back on the other constitutive steps of the full process flow.

The Integration Team is responsible for the development and introduction into production of new lasers, modulators, receivers, and photonic integrated circuits and are also responsible for the development and consolidation of process flows and architectures for the Sivers Photonics InP100 platform.

Responsibilities

• Developing new process step modules to be integrated in the current workflow or for new products
• Verifying the process setup by process engineers for each process step or modules by analysing the data, in-line measurements, and through failure analysis.
• Ensuring that the process setup is compatible with all downstream process steps
• Collaborate with other engineering teams for achieving good yield and performance for their technology
• Developing new technologies to level of maturity and stability able to be transferred to high volume manufacturing
• Ongoing collaboration with Design and Technology teams on process performance against the PDK limits
• Invent and generate new techniques and methods able to provide solutions to customer requirements and needs

Experience

• Minimum 3 years experience of semiconductor processing and process integration in and academic or industrial environment
• Understanding of working principle and operation of semiconductor manufacturing tools
• Hands on cleanroom manufacturing experience
• Device physics understanding and experience
• Integration, Process Engineering and/or development  engineering experience
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrable ability to analyse data and draw meaningful conclusions to root cause and impact
• Track record of ability to solve technical problem
• Excellent data analysis and problem-solving skills
• Track record of ability to prepare technical reports, white papers and present this to internal and external customers.
• Ability to meet deadline and milestone.
• Self-driven and motivated, able to drive progress with minimal supervision.

Personal Fit

• Open, pragmatic, team player. Willing to support and challenge (and to be supported and challenged). Not constrained by perceived barriers.
• Result orientated with sense of urgency whilst quality conscious.
• Be willing to uphold company standards, act as a role model and take ownership.

Reporting To

Chief Engineer

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