The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Senior Advanced Packaging/MEMS Process Engineer

Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics required; Master's degree preferred.
  • 5-10 years of experience in Microsystems Engineering or a related field.
  • Proficient with fabrication and metrology tools for MEMS component fabrication.
  • Experience with design, modeling, and performance testing software tools.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Support end-to-end copper electroplating process development for HMLV yield targets.
  • Define and optimize copper etch processes for patterning and surface preparation.
  • Develop and maintain new processes in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Analyze device performance and address yield improvement and reliability issues.
  • Design and draft technical documentation including operating instructions and manuals.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide constructive feedback.
  • Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.

Benefits

  • Work-life balance support with workplace flexibility.
  • Access to health and finance workshops, and employee clubs.
  • Opportunities for off-site social events.
  • Discounts to local museums and cultural activities.
Full Job Description

Job Description Summary:

As a Senior Advanced Packaging/MEMS Process Engineer you'll apply advanced semiconductor and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) process engineering knowledge, theory, and methods to research, design, develop, and qualify processes for Heterogeneous System Integration Package (HSIP) and Fan-Out Wafer-Level (FOWL) technologies.

What You’ll Do:
● Support end-to-end copper electroplating process development to achieve HMLV yield and reliability targets.
● Define copper etch process optimization for fine-line patterning and DBI pre-bond surface preparation.
Optimize and maintain processes like:
• Wet and Dry etch tools
• Vacuum/Sputter systems
• Metrology tools
● Work with cross functional teams to develop new processes for new business, make process improvements, troubleshoot issues, and maintain process uptime
● Shares performance experience and operating characteristics with designers or other engineers for new product development purposes and/or training.
stem Integration Package (HSIP)
● Fan-Out Wafer-Level (FOWL) technologies

You'll interact with integration, assembly, quality, and equipment engineering teams to drive high-mix | low-volume manufacturing readiness for 2.5D/3D chiplet integration.

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities

  • Designs and develops Microelectromechanical devices/sensors, schematics and physical layouts of integrated MEMS components or packaged assemblies.

  • Assesses performance and process capabilities of potential MEMS device designs using modeling or simulation software.

  • Tests and evaluates devices using a variety of tools, protocols, and software.

  • Analyzes and addresses issues such as reliability, yield improvement, and/or failure.

  • Develops production methods and fabrication processes for MEMS.

  • Drafts documentation such as operating instructions, performance specifications, and manuals.

  • Shares performance experience and operating characteristics with designers or other engineers for new product development purposes and/or training.

  • Develop and maintain effective internal/external relationships.

  • Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction, contribute to requirements development, propose ways forward, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements.

  • Able to provide insight and suggest design or process modifications based on quantitative data or results.

  • Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies for them.

  • Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback.

  • Performs other related duties as assigned.


Skills/Abilities

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

  • Excellent time management skills with the proven ability to meet deadlines.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • Proficient with the fabrication and metrology tools and instrumentation related to MEMS component fabrication.

  • Proficient with software tools and systems used for device design, modelling, and performance testing.

  • Proficient with software tools and systems used for statistical process control, and reliability and failure analysis, including yield improvement.


Education
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics required. Master's degree preferred

Experience
5-10 years of Microsystems Engineering or related experience.

Additional Job Description:

Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance.

Job Location - City:

St. Petersburg

Job Location - State:

Florida

Job Location - Postal Code:

33716

The US base salary range for this full-time position is

$82,300.00 - $220,000.00

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Union ranges will be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreement's approved rates by location and role. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.  Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now .

About The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is an American non-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. The laboratory was founded in 1932 by Charles Stark Draper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. During this period the laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970, and separated from MIT in 1973 to become an independent, non-profit organization. The expertise of the laboratory staff includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control technologies and systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software systems; modeling and simulation; and microelectromechanical systems and multichip module technology.
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