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Position Summary

In your role as a Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) / Thin Films Leader you'll lead the equipment engineering sub team dedicated to LAM vendor equipment.
You'll be focused on configuring LAM tools for advanced 2nm technology nodes, coordinating tool installation, performing tool-to-tool matching, and qualifying the recipes. Long-term focus will be developing maintenance procedures, training programs, implementing defense lines to prevent excursions, and continuously improving tool metrics to meet manufacturing goals.

Role and Responsibilities:

Here's what you'll be responsible for:

The equipment team leader must understand department objectives and provide effective oversight to their team members to achieve targets for safety, quality, and production.

• Translating departmental goals into measurable tasks for their team.

• Facilitating annual performance management and compensation process for their direct reports including hiring, training and developing team members.

• Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting direction to direct reports for LAM tools. The applicant should possess a high level of technical understanding of semiconductor machinery, facilities, and components.

• Developing / approving safety-minded standard operating procedures to guide maintenance activity on the tools.

• Ensuring the team adheres to sitewide safety standards and communicating safety bulletins to the team.

• Coordinating with tool vendors to prioritize work and communicating help needs.

• Identifying field work for the engineering team by regularly walking the tool installation site.

• Ensuring tools have robust defense lines applied to prevent impact to product.

• Matching new tool output to reference tool (tool-to-tool matching).

Skills and Qualifications

Here's what you'll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical) or related degree (Materials Eng., Physics, Chemistry, etc.)

• 5+ years experience in high volume semiconductor manufacturing.

• 2+ years leadership experience of at least 5 or more people, or 4+ years technical leadership experience leading task force teams.

• Previous work experience in engineering discipline in a Class1-1000 cleanroom environment.

• Knowledge of advanced statistical methods to evaluate the results of changepoints and experiments.

• Strong foundation in Lean / 5S methodology

• Demonstrate strong analytical skills for assessing problems and developing corrective actions

All positions at Samsung Austin Semiconductor require you to be onsite. We are not currently accepting applications for candidates who currently, or in the future, will need visa sponsorship.

The current base salary range for this role is between $70,480 - $179,090. Individual base pay rates will depend on factors including duties, work location, education, skills, qualifications and experience. Total compensation for this position will include a competitive benefits package and may include participation in company incentive compensation programs, which are based on factors to include organizational and individual performance.

Total Rewards At Samsung SAS, base pay is just one part of our total compensation package. The base compensation for this role will depend on education, experience, skills, and location.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance and 401(k) matching with immediate vesting
• Onsite café(s) and workout facilities
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Paid time off (PTO) + 2 personal holidays and 10 regular holidays
• Wellness incentives and MORE

Eligible full-time employees (salaried or hourly) may also receive MBO bonuses based on company, division, and individual performance.

All positions at SAS are full-time on-site.

U.S. Export Control Compliance This role requires access to information subject to U.S. export control laws. Applicants must be authorized to access such information or eligible for government authorization.

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