Process Engineer — Microfabrication

Ref: RT-04-MO Role Overview This role exists to turn process ideas into processes that hold: it owns the steps that take a Dynamic Drop™ recipe from a promising result to something repeatable on a partner's substrate. Sample preparation, wet and electrochemical processing, sample post-processing, inspection and metrology are the daily toolset. It is for an engineer who already knows their way around a lab and wants to own processes rather than execute them.

Key Responsibilities
* Own process steps end to end. Sample preparation, wet and electrochemical processes, sample post-processing, inspection and metrology tools: you set the parameters, define the process window, and are the reference for all of them.
* Design experiments, not just run them. Build the test matrix and size it so the outcome will actually be conclusive — DoE and applied statistics rather than one factor at a time.
* Find root causes. When yield drops or a dimension drifts, take the problem apart methodically — data, equipment, material, method — instead of changing three things at once.
* Turn results into standards. Write the procedures and best-known methods that keep a process alive when you are not in the room.
* Own the equipment and what it costs. Qualification, maintenance planning and acceptance of new tools; the technical dialogue with suppliers; and the case for the tooling and consumables your processes need, inside the budget agreed.
* Work across the lab. With electronics, chemistry, mechanics and production, so that a process that works on a sample also works on a product.
* Bring the junior engineer and the technician up. Not a formal management line, the practical kind: at the bench, on the numbers, on the reasoning. Requirements
* Degree in Materials Science, Materials or Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
* 3 to 7 years hands-on in a lab, pilot line or process production environment.
* Regular cleanroom experience, and at least one process you can honestly say you owned.
* Semiconductor process familiarity from direct

experience:
electrochemical deposition and plating are the closest fit; thin films, microfabrication, laser processing and advanced packaging are close enough.
* Data skill you can defend: distributions, variability, capability, DoE, in Python, R, JMP or Minitab.
* Fluent English, written and spoken. Italian is a plus.
* Judgment about safety: chemicals, lasers and cleanroom discipline are not negotiable. Who you are
* Hands-on, genuinely. This role does not delegate the bench work away; you keep doing it.
* Precision and traceability. Your results are reproducible by someone else, because your record is good enough for them to follow.
* Curiosity and initiative. You go and look. You propose the experiment before it is asked of you.
* Clear technical writing. An unreadable report is a result that does not exist.
* Directness. Small team, short cycles, visible mistakes. We value people who say what they think early and change their mind when the data says so.
* Open mindset. You are not afraid to challenge assumptions, and you want to contribute to advancing the state of the art. Why Join Us Your process work ships inside a product rather than ending in a report, and the scope grows as the line and the team grow. Being honest about the job You will spend a significant part of your week gowned and standing, and the work alternates between the interesting problem and the careful repetition that makes the interesting problem solvable. The team is small: there is no layer between you and the decision — and none between you and the consequence either. #J-18808-Ljbffr