CMP Equipment Engineer

About the role

NXP is seeking a CMP Equipment Engineer with 2-5 years of semiconductor manufacturing experience to support and improve equipment performance in a high-volume wafer fabrication environment. The role focuses on equipment reliability, uptime and maintenance, while driving process and operational improvements that enhance yield, quality, cycle time and cost. The engineer partners with Process Engineering, Manufacturing, Facilities and equipment vendors to troubleshoot issues and implement corrective actions.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain and improve CMP equipment performance to meet manufacturing output and reliability targets.
• Troubleshoot equipment failures, coordinate recovery actions and perform root cause analysis on recurring issues.
• Support equipment qualifications, installations, upgrades and technology transfers.
• Develop and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance plans and work with vendors on equipment improvements.
• Maintain equipment documentation, SOPs and maintenance instructions.
• Partner with Process Engineers on yield, defect and productivity improvements, analyze equipment and process data, and support process experiments and lot disposition.
• Drive continuous improvement projects on uptime, throughput, availability, cost and efficiency, and investigate process excursions.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Materials Science, Physics or a related engineering discipline.
• 2-5 years of semiconductor manufacturing experience, preferably in an Equipment Engineering role.
• Experience supporting CMP equipment in a wafer fabrication environment.
• Preferred: experience with CMP platforms such as Applied Materials Mirra, Screen DNS AS2000, Ontrak Scrubber Systems and NovaScan System 2040, and with equipment qualifications and production tool releases.
• Preferred: working knowledge of JMP, Spotfire, Python, MATLAB, SQL or VBA, and of 8D, DMAIC, 5-Why, Lean, Six Sigma or TPM.

Required skills

• Knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing processes and cleanroom operations.
• Familiarity with SPC and data-driven problem solving.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication and project management skills.