Dry Etch - DMTS, PD, Advance NAND

What You'll Do

• , but are not limited to: Leading advancements in Dry Etch technology and essential module development Act as a technical expert for dry etch process, hardware and applications in NAND technology development at F10, Singapore.
• Your position encourages delivering broad technical vision, deep domain expertise, and perspective advised by extensive knowledge of dry etch physics/chemistry.
• Define the equipment roadmap.
• Work together with suppliers and develop a mechanism-focused logical hardware roadmap essential for the upcoming generation NAND dry etch.
• Able to benchmark Micron NAND dry etch capability against outstanding industry standards and translate external findings into internal advantage.
• Provides forward-looking technical insight on dry etch trends, tool capabilities, and integration risks.
• In addition to Micron-specific responsibilities, the individual is encouraged to bring broad perspective and external insight from prior experience across highly reputed semiconductor companies.
• Provide technical mentorship and direction to SMTS/STS engineers; raise overall dry etch technical capability within the Singapore NAND organization.
• Resolve the most complex NAND yield, defectivity, and integration challenges through deep expertise in plasma physics, surface interactions, and materials.
• Represent Micron Singapore NAND dry etch interests at international conferences, cross-site and cross-company technical forums.
• Contribute towards Technical Leadership Program.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and encourage skills within the team.
• Individual contributor role Collaborate and lead multi-functional teams to solve sophisticated structural problems.
• Simplify problems through model-based problem solving.
• Champion AI based solutions through the TD ecosystem.
• Lead collaborative efforts across Technology Development, Process Integration, and Manufacturing.
• Develop and innovate dry etch methods to satisfy structural and electrical requirements.
• Lead innovative (FOAK) dry etch process development, including recipe architecture, EPD strategy, control plans, and integration alignment.
• Solid presentation skills in executive meetings.
• Present process and technology roadmaps for current and future technology nodes.
• Demonstrate predictive capability of a future issue and proactively build mitigation plan.
• Comfortable influencing technology roadmaps in other process areas.
• Interaction with Dry Etch peers Serve as a resource and guide for colleagues in dry etch technology and/or project management.
• Provide critical updates to upper management on project status and impacts.
• Successful candidates for this position will have: Demonstrated interest in research and development environment. 15-20 years’ experience in dry etch process development within R&D (NAND, DRAM or Logic) moving into manufacturing roles, with 10-15 years specifically in memory products such as NAND and DRAM.
• Knowledge of plasma physics, plasma chemistry, transport or surface phenomena gained through experience and/or coursework.
• Demonstrated leadership in problem solving.
• Experience in managing technical projects.
• Understanding various types of plasma dry etch reactors (e.g., RF sources, chemistries).
• Expertise in statistical process control and analysis.
• Experience in solving scalability problems of deep high aspect ratio silicon/dielectric etches with a fundamental understanding of advanced conventional and unconventional (tailored) pulsing schemes.
• Lead supplier head to heads.
• Strong computer skills, including MS Office, and SAS software like JmP and similar.
• Data science basics / Python coding / AI coders could be preferred over candidates without this experience.
• Education PhD (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Material Science, Physics, Chemical physics, Chemistry, Semiconductor engineering or related fields) with 15-20 years of applicable dry etch process development background BS/MS (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Material Science, Physics, Chemical physics, Chemistry, Semiconductor engineering or related fields) with over 18 years of pertinent experience About Micron Technology, Inc.
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