Engineering Technician 3

Job Description

## What you’ll do * Take care of sample preparation tasks which are required before loading samples into our STEM tools. May include ALD coatings, application of other protective coatings, identifying and marking areas of interest based on a schematic, resizing samples, and similar tasks. * Follow fixed procedures and repeat with a wide variety of sample configurations. * Organize shipments of microscopy materials to external labs. Perform sample intake and outgoing procedures which includes screening for physical and digital quality and photographing contents. Identify and set aside samples which do not meet lab’s submission expectations. * Customer service. * Especially successful, tenured techs in this role may pursue a career in electron microscopy within our group. ## Ideal Qualities * Impeccable attention to detail * Good troubleshooting and pattern recognition skills * Understanding of how semiconductors are created * Sees task repetition as an opportunity to iterate and innovate better methods * Careful, detail oriented observer * Fond of learning and responds well to feedback ## Preferred qualifications * Associate’s degree, technical certificate, or higher in a discipline relevant to the semiconductor industry such as Microelectronics Technology, Physics/Engineering, Computer Science, etc. * 2-4 years of related work experience in the semiconductor industry, especially handling silicon wafers, processing wafers in fab tools, cleaving wafers into coupons, and identifying features of interest based on a wafer schematic. * Excellent manual dexterity. * Effective communication skills, written and verbal, in English. * Proficient in utilizing Microsoft Office software. * Ability to work a compressed shift schedule. ## Our commitment We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results. Lam Research (“Lam” or…