Senior Semiconductor Fabrication Engineer

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Senior Semiconductor Fabrication Engineer

Location: Lanham, Maryland

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) is looking for a full-time Senior Semiconductor Fabrication Engineer to work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The fabrication engineer will primarily provide fabrication support for x-ray type detector technology, currently under development for future space flight science instruments. This position is onsite at NASA GSFC in Greenbelt, MD.

Specific Duties:

1. Depositing and patterning of metallic or superconducting thin films via sputtering and e-beam evaporation deposition techniques, photo-resist spinning, contact-based photolithography, stepper-lithography, laser-writing-lithography, e-beam lithography, wet-etching, reactive-ion-etching and liftoff patterning techniques.
2. Use of a furnace and oven for thermal oxidation and annealing processes.
3. Deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) or reactive ion-etching (RIE) of silicon substrates.
4. Metrology and imaging of completed or in-process devices using a profilometer, optical microscope, SEM, or AFM.
5. Working in a clean room environment and following good practices to maintain the clean room environment.
6. Maintaining a high attention to detail, including the ability to precisely follow detailed process instructions from a run sheet, and to inspect and report on details of results after each processing step.
7. Demonstrating excellent communication skills, including providing clear verbal and written communication and documentation of fabrication process results and status reports to project team members, during informal and formal group meetings and via email.
8. Displaying initiative and working independently on project tasks, while also working effectively with other project team members and with other laboratory team members to coordinate wafer processing, use of lab equipment, training on equipment, and/or to transfer knowledge of processing techniques.
9. Managing time effectively to meet project deadlines.

Required Qualifications:

1. BS in either a materials science, physics or relevant engineering field and 7 years relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
2. Proven experience and demonstrated success as a Semiconductor Fabrication Engineer or in a position requiring related experience to the duties listed above.
3. Able to work in a team environment.
4. Permanent Residency or US Citizenship is required.

Desired Qualifications:

PhD in materials science, physics, or related engineering field.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.