SMART Photonics is a rapidly growing, ambitious open foundry on InP Photonics. We are unique in offering our customers a Process Design Kit (PDK) which allows them to design complex photonic circuits. Our customers come from a range of market sectors, including telecom/datacom, medical sensing, automotive/lidar and quantum technologies.
We are looking for experienced professionals to expand the Process Engineering Team.
The position offers you a combination of operational and hands-on challenges as well as some tasks more related to process improvement and long term strategy. To succeed in this position you truly offer a production mindset; You oversee the complex epitaxy process and how this adds to the bigger manufacturing process of Photonic Integrated Chips.
Job description and daily tasks:
- Responsible for maintaining, improving, and co-developing the epitaxy processes to manufacturing photonic integrated chips.
- Together with the team you align on operational tasks and priorities, to keep the reactor up and the epitaxy process running smooth for our production team is priority 1.
- Participate in various cross functional teams to improve yields, solve process problems, simplify procedures, processes and selection, qualification and release of new tools and processes with improved capacity and capability.
- You will oversee and work collaboratively with production and quality colleagues, to assure orders are completed on time and within specification.
- Compile and evaluate test data to determine appropriate limits and variation for process or material specifications.
We are looking for a person who has/is
- A technical degree on Bachelor level or up.
- Solid industry experience and understanding of Aixtron reactors, epitaxy growth and linked processes.
- Offering 3 to 7 years of process engineering experience (graduation and internships not included) in a semiconductor environment.
- A real production mindset and drive.
- In depth knowledge and proven experience off process improvement and statistical tools like FMEA, SPC, DoE.
- Experience supporting a fab operations team, training of fab procedures, root cause analysis and problem resolution.
- Familiar on SPTS, LAM, AMAT systems for PECVD/ICP, are added advantages.
- Familiar with problem solving tools, 8D, RCA and/or Six Sigma Methodology, are added advantages.
- Teamwork Spirit, true Ownership and Bias for Action are key to success in this role.
- Living in commuting distance from Eindhoven (NL) or willing to relocate.
Benefits & Culture at SMART Photonics:
Our company is located in Eindhoven, we have a team of +/- 200 colleagues, from a diverse culture and world-wide background. We value our people and are offering support and guidance in personal growth, career development and work-life balance.
- Salary and benefits to align on during the first introduction.
- Investment in your career and growth by a tailor-made career development plan.
- 27 paid holiday days and the option to buy 10 extra days.
- We are located at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, a bustling location offering a supermarket, all kind of restaurants, a gym, and network events such a (fe)male tech hero’s, spouse networking and a pub quiz night.
- For people who need a work permit, visa and/or relocation, we are acknowledged as high-tech company allow to apply for the highly skilled migrant visa. We also have a relocation package in place.
- Our employees valued teamwork with an 8.8 /10, freedom in their job with an 8.8/10 and collaboration with other colleagues an 8.6/10.
The 9 core values of SMART Photonics are: Customer obsession, Bias for Action, Teamwork Spirit, Passion to Innovate, Trust in each Other, Work SMART, Eye for quality, Ownership, and continuous improvement.
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