Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Engineer
Join a collaborative team where your hands-on engineering expertise can make a direct impact on fab performance, product quality and manufacturing scale-up.
Your Opportunity at VueReal:
We're looking for a hands-on Semiconductor Process Engineer with strong photolithography experience and the versatility to support multiple fab processes. You'll own and improve lithography processes, troubleshoot equipment, increase yield and partner with R&D and Operations to bring new processes into repeatable production.
YOUR Day-to-day Responsibilities:
- Operate, troubleshoot and optimize photolithography equipment, including spin coaters, mask aligners and/or maskless exposure systems, as applicable.
- Support daily fab operations to meet production throughput, quality and yield targets.
- Develop, qualify and optimize photoresist coating, exposure, development and pattern-transfer processes.
- Monitor critical process parameters using SPC, DOE and capability metrics, targeting Cpk 6gt;= 1.33 where applicable.
- Identify root causes of defects and lead corrective actions to improve yield, repeatability and process stability.
- Develop and deliver lithography yield-improvement initiatives with clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
- Integrate lithography with upstream and downstream processes, working with wet processing, deposition, etch and metrology teams.
- Support equipment qualification, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting and recovery after tool downtime.
- Support NPI and R&D-to-manufacturing transfer, including new processes, materials and equipment evaluation.
- Maintain clear process recipes, SOPs, work instructions and production documentation.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Operations teams while maintaining cleanroom safety and process-control standards.
The TOOLS and Skills You Need to Do the Job:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and practical experience.
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on photolithography or semiconductor process engineering experience, preferably in a production cleanroom.
- Experience operating, troubleshooting and optimizing lithography equipment and photoresist coating, exposure and development processes.
- Experience developing, maintaining or qualifying semiconductor manufacturing recipes and resolving process issues.
- Strong knowledge of cleanroom safety, SPC, DOE and data-driven process optimization.
- Ability to collaborate across multiple fab modules and communicate technical findings clearly.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience with at least one additional fab process: PVD/sputtering, wet etching/cleaning, RIE/ICP, PECVD or other deposition processes.
- Experience in equipment qualification, process integration, metrology or yield improvement.
- Experience using manufacturing execution systems (MES) and statistical process capability analysis.
- Experience supporting NPI, production ramp-up or technology transfer from R&D to manufacturing.
- Exposure to microLED, MEMS, photonics, optoelectronics, DUV, maskless or nanoimprint lithography.
WHY VueReal:
- Collaborative, innovative team where your practical engineering ideas can make a difference.
- Opportunities to work across semiconductor tools, processes and technologies.
- Hands-on involvement in process development and manufacturing scale-up.
- Paid vacation.
- Sick, personal and paid parental leave, subject to company policy.
- Employee benefits plan.
- Professional development and continuous learning opportunities.
- Stock options.
- The chance to help commercialize advanced Canadian semiconductor technology.
- A growing company working with major industry partners.
