Lead Crystal Growth Engineer

Primary Duties & Responsibilities


* Actively participate in a broad AMD team effort aimed at optimization of the crystal growth technology, which leads to continual improvement of SiC crystal quality and productivity.


* Lead a task team of engineers and technicians working on aspects of SiC crystal growth, such as designing crystal growth apparatus, modeling crystal growth process, scaling up crystal diameter, improving growth process efficiency, enhancing yields and throughput, eliminating crystal defects, etc.


* Transfer R&D processes to Production in a well-organized and documented way including operating procedures, failure mode effect analysis, SPC charting of key parameters


* Contribute to the development of ideas, approaches and methods leading to the growth process improvement


* Quickly respond to the emerging market demands or Government requirements for new types of crystal products by developing innovative engineering solutions and adjusting the growth processes


* Actively contribute to R&D Programs by prioritizing, organizing and carrying out project activities.

Adhere to the project timelines.

Summarize experimental and characterization results in formal or informal written and oral reports


* Actively participate in R&D meetings and supports them by providing schedules, plans, meeting minutes, action items and other necessary documentation


* Contribute to establishing, reviewing and updating both short- and long-term experimental plans


* Participate in proposal and report writing activities and writes sections as assigned by Program Manager.

Participate in preparation of presentations to customers and Government contract monitoring personnel


* Organize, schedule and participate in characterization of SiC boules and substrates in the context of R&D and commercial manufacturing.

Utilize internal and external characterization methods and capabilities


* Actively participate in collection, processing, modeling and analyzing the obtained characterization data to establish fundamental trends and correlations and to develop scientifically sound conclusions


* Use the results of characterization to establish factors that affect crystal quality and to make recommendations for the technology optimization


* Readily communicate the ideas, experimental and analytical results to the team in an open and timely manner to accelerate the technology progress


* Utilize statistical tools to characterize of technological processes and determine process reliability and "bottlenecks".

Analyze process/product failure modes.

Provide rapid feedback to the SiC production team


* Contribute to solving technical and operational problems related to the SiC substrate production in a timely manner


* Contribute to the work of the quality team by providing expertise in process characterization.

Serve as a resource to the QA personnel with respect to the characterization techniques, equipme...