Staff Engineer, PD Adv NAND Photolithography
About the company
Embody Micron’s Core Values People – Diversity of thought to propel technology leadership - Ideas can come from anywhere
Innovation – Challenge and disrupt the status quo – fail fast and learn faster, optimize with Artificial Intelligence solutions
Tenacity – Own the problem to closure through a first principles approach
Collaboratio n – Partner with Product and Manufacturing to deliver end-to-end technology solutions
Customer Focus – Powering Micron’s Storage products through industry-leading technology
Speed – Moving fast on what matters, without compromising quality
Your tasks
- Lead development, optimization, and troubleshooting of photolithography processes to meet yield, quality, and performance requirements.
- Translate device and integration requirements into robust process flows, specifications, and control strategies.
- Perform and own material evaluations, OPC/layout development, process window analysis, and overlay optimization.
- Design and implement advanced process control methodologies using SPC, DOE, and lithography simulation tools.
- Own delivery of defined photolithography process milestones from development through transfer readiness.
- Partner with global R&D and manufacturing teams to ensure effective technology transfer.
Other Responsibilities
- Work with equipment and materials suppliers to evaluate new capabilities and improvements.
- Contribute to invention disclosures and technical documentation.
- Integrates AI-assisted tools and insights into daily work to improve efficiency, quality, or effectiveness, exercising sound judgment and complying with organizational standards and legal requirements.
- Contributes to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, testing, and sharing AI-enabled enhancements within one’s scope of work.
AI Responsibilities
- Integrates AI-assisted tools and insights into daily work to improve efficiency, quality, or effectiveness, exercising sound judgment and complying with organizational standards and legal requirements.
- Contributes to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, testing, and sharing AI-enabled enhancements within one’s scope of work.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications / Experience
- PhD ≥3 yrs, or Master’s ≥5 yrs, or Bachelor’s ≥7 yrs of relevant experience in
Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or related field, with demonstrated experience in semiconductor photolithography process development.
Must‑Have Technical Skills
- Proven track record in contributing and accomplishing photolithography process & equipment roadmaps
- Deep knowledge in optics, immersion lithography, polarized illumination, and low k1 imaging
- Proficiency in lithography simulation tools, material characterization, DOE, SPC, and basic statistical data analysis
Must‑Have Soft Skills
- Technical ownership & accountability
- Structured problem-solving
- Cross-functional collaboration
Highly Desirable / Preferred
- Experience with advanced DUV and exposure to EUV
- Supplier interaction and early technology adoption experience
AI Requirements
- Ability to apply baseline digital fluency and role appropriate AI literacy to use AI enabled tools responsibly and effectively for research, analysis, content creation, problem solving, operational tasks, and achieving business outcomes.