Apple

Process Technologist

Apple • $150K — $180K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS degree with 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • 10+ years in semiconductor process R&D and manufacturing
  • Deep knowledge of CMOS, HVMOS, BCDMOS, MEMs technologies
  • Experience interfacing with design teams in analog and digital technologies
  • Prior experience in Analog/mixed signal/power/display/Sensing/MEMs process technologies
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of meeting aggressive schedules
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for engaging across all levels

Responsibilities

  • Manage technical interface with silicon vendors on process technology
  • Collaborate with foundries on supplier silicon process issues
  • Coordinate process transfers with IDMs and external foundries
  • Lead technical risk assessments and mitigation plans
  • Drive technology suitability assessments from concept to volume production
  • Investigate root causes and solutions for process/yield issues
  • Build relationships across all levels within Apple and with suppliers

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on next-generation custom chip solutions
  • Dynamic role with hands-on problem-solving
  • Travel opportunities to suppliers and foundries worldwide
  • Engagement in defining technology roadmaps
  • Collaboration with top-tier engineering teams
  • Visibility and impact within a leading technology company
Full Job Description
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Hardware Technology group, you'll help define technology roadmap and manufacture our next-generation custom chip solutions for all Apple platforms. You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you'll be responsible for crafting and building the process technology that fuels Apple's devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of process technology problem solving with a focus on interface with silicon vendors and foundries. This is a hands-on, dynamic role requiring travel to suppliers and foundries worldwide.

Description

-Manage technical interface with silicon vendors on process technology.

-Work closely with foundries on supplier silicon process issues.

-Coordinate process transfers with IDMs and external foundries.

-Lead the technical risk assessment and mitigation plans on product - process interactions and its impact on high volume manufacturing

-Drive technology suitability and impact assessment on products/use cases from concept through design phases, tape out and ramp to volume

-Participate in defining technology roadmap, technology development, device engineering, and ongoing sustaining engineering activities within the Technology group working closely with Silicon vendors.

-Drive thorough investigation of root cause, and solutions to process/yield issues and its impact on product production, performance and reliability.

-Manage and mitigate process technology risks for multiple projects in parallel.

-Engage parties in technology decision making and drive to timely closure and thorough follow-through.

-Build essential internal and external relationships across all levels (Engineering to senior management) at suppliers and within Apple

-Interpersonal and communication skills to engage at all levels of the supply chain from engineers to CEOs

Minimum Qualifications

BS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Candidate should have 10+ years of experience in semiconductor process R&D and manufacturing. Experience with process development, qualification and yield enhancement is desired.

Deep knowledge of CMOS, HVMOS, BCDMOS, MEMs technologies, device physics and industry competitive technology landscape is required.

Experience in interfacing with design teams (analog & digital) in these technologies required.

Prior Experience in Analog/ mixed signal/power/display/Sensing/MEMs related process technologies and manufacturing is highly desired

Demonstrated prior experience and success in solving highly complex technical problems under a very aggressive schedule is essential.

People management skills and managerial experience is highly desired.

Good data analysis, problem solving and very strong communication skills required.

Self-motivated, independent decision maker and schedule oriented is expected.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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