SPAS Technician

Position Summary

In your role as a SPAS Technician, you'll be responsible for performing functions related to lab operations, collaborating with engineering and providing direct support to manufacturing in areas such as destructive wafer analysis, structure and failure analysis, as well as conducting maintenance on equipment as appropriate.

You'll also utilize various methodologies and sophisticated instrumentation for destructive analysis, fault isolation, and sampling connected to root cause analysis and process characterization.

The individual must adhere to standard operating procedures and assist in developing methods and procedures to enhance techniques and capabilities related to in-lab operations. Strict compliance with all health, safety, and environmental management system guidelines is required.

The position will involve transitioning to A-Shift after training is completed.

Role and Responsibilities

Here’s What You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Sample Preparation: Perform detailed preparation (Cleaving, and polishing) of product samples and wafers to allow detailed inspection in SEMs and other microscopes for precise measurement of structures and process.
• SPAS Analysis: Conduct manual and automated inspection of prepared samples using SEMs.
• Reporting: Complete and report findings and measurements on samples to FAB requestors for process qualifications or changes.
• Equipment Operation: Operate and help maintain failure analysis lab equipment, such as Dual Beam FIBs (Focused Ion Beam) and SEMs (Scanning Electron Microscopes), Optical Microscopes, etc.
• Establish ownership of individual performance related to department Key Process Indices (KPI).
• Document standard operating procedures (SOPs) for new products or lab processes and help spread learning to other technicians and teams.

Skills and Qualifications

Here's what you'll need:

• 2+ years of college or technical school (preferred, but not required).
• Ability to work with small quantities of chemicals and in a wet lab environment (applicable to specific job function).
• Ability to prepare high quality samples free of damage specific to the process technique trained on and as outlined in related SOPs.
• Ability to manipulate small features, tools or samples consistently as related to sample preparation or equipment maintenance and troubleshooting (applicable to specific job function).
• Ability to multitask and be highly adaptable to learn and grow within the team.