Semiconductor Fabrication Engineer

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) is looking for a full-time Semiconductor Fabrication Engineer to work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The fabrication engineer will primarily provide fabrication support for infrared detector technology and MEMS devices currently under development for future space flight science instruments. The engineer will receive on-the-job-training on the specific wafer processing techniques and equipment used in NASA facilities. This position is onsite at NASA GSFC in Greenbelt, MD.

Specific duties for this position will include the following:

• Photoresist spinning and developing, thick and thin resists, positive and negative resists, and image-reversal resists for lift-off patterning.
• Contact photolithography. Direct-write laser patterning.
• Reactive ion etching of thin films and silicon, with emphasis on deep reactive ion etching (DRIE).
• Depositing of metallic and/or insulating films via sputtering, e-beam evaporation, PECVD, and ALD deposition techniques.
• Wet chemical processing.
• Metrology and imaging of completed or in-process devices using a profilometer, optical microscope, ellipsometry, SEM, and AFM.
• Working in a clean room environment and following good practices to maintain the clean room environment.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Managing time effectively to meet project deadlines.

Required Qualifications:

• BS or higher in either a materials science, physics or relevant engineering field and 5 years relevant experience.
• Proven experience and demonstrated success as a Semiconductor Fabrication Engineer or in a position requiring related experience to the duties listed above.
• Able to work in a team environment.
• Permanent Residency or US Citizenship is required.

Desired Qualifications:

• MS degree in materials science, physics, or related engineering field
• Gray-scale photolithography.
• DRIE trench etching and transfer of gray-scale patterns in photoresist to silicon.

EOE, including disability/vets

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.