Lithography level owner

Introduction
As a Hardware Developer at IBM you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are seeking engineers in all areas of photolithography process for semiconductors and related devices. The hired candidates will have an understanding of the fundamental principles and materials and tooling in photolithography through a combination of relevant education and/or work experience. The candidate will also have strong skills in designing experiments analyzing data and communicating results to a broad team. Some of the job responsibilities include maintaining and qualifying state of the art lithography process equipment and/or developing processes and materials from an early concept stage into a mature element that enables a leading-edge technology. The positions require interaction with cross-functional and multi-company working teams that include engineers engaged in all areas of semiconductor process development process integration design/layout and computational technology. Generation of Intellectual Property for IBM and protection of it through the patenting process are also expected. The hired candidates must possess strong analytical and design-of-experiment knowledge excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. You must be willing to work in Albany NY with rare instances of travel (<5%).

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Lithography process and tooling fundamentals
• Semiconductor processing
• Design of experiments

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• 3 years experience with lithography process and tooling
• Industry experience with semiconductor research and development
• Proficiency with metrology and process controls