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Fab Metrology and Yield Engineer
FormFactor
Beaverton, USA
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 2 weeks ago
Role Overview
The Fab Metrology & Yield Engineer is an individual contributor responsible for defining, owning, and continuously improving metrology, inspection, and yield-monitoring capabilities within the fabrication facility.
Reporting directly to the Fab Engineering Process Director, this role provides technical leadership in automated optical inspection (AOI) tool bring-up, production microscopy systems, flying probe test operations, and profilometry equipment.
The position partners closely with integration, yield and process engineering to ensure robust measurement capability, actionable defect and yield data, and disciplined problem-solving that drives yield improvement, excursion prevention, and production stability.
They also partner with the equipment maintenance team to ensure proper maintenance procedures and schedules for the equipment owned by this role.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Safety & Compliance: Operate and support metrology and inspection equipment in full compliance with EHS standards, cleanroom protocols, and equipment safety requirements; proactively identify and mitigate safety and equipment-related risks.
- AOI Tool Ownership & Bring-Up: Lead installation, qualification, recipe development, and production release of automated optical inspection tools; ensure stable performance, image fidelity, and correlation to failure mechanisms.
- Production Microscopy: Own fab microscopy platforms (optical and related techniques), enabling rapid defect review, root cause analysis, and engineering decision-making for development and high-volume production.
- Profilometry & Surface Metrology: Own profilometry systems and measurement techniques to characterize film thickness, topography, and critical surface features; ensure measurement repeatability and relevance to process control.
- Probe Tip Formation Module: Own tool set and process used to form and measure mems probe tips.
- Yield Analysis & Excursion Response: Analyze inspection and metrology data to identify yield limiters, defect trends, and process excursions within owned modules using structured problem-solving methods.
Skills:
- Automated Optical Inspection (AOI), Cleanroom Operations, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Analytics, Design of Experiments (DOE), Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Regulations, Equipment Qualification, Flying Probe, Optical Microscopy, Process Control, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Structured Problem Solving, Surface Metrology, Technical Writing Documentation
- Education & Experience:
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience | Required
- Pay Range:
- $115,800.00 - $151,935.00
- Pay Range Explained:
- This role in Beaverton, Oregon pays between $115,800.00 and $151,935.00 per year, depending on your experience, skills, and background. Pay may vary in other locations. We offer a full benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, a 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), and paid time off. You’ll also be eligible for quarterly profit-sharing bonuses and flexible spending or savings accounts.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
- FormFactor is an equal opportunity employer. FormFactor complies with all national, state, and local laws that seek to promote equal opportunities for any applicant or employee without regard to age, race, color, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, military service, or any other legally protected characteristics. These protections apply to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, and compensation.
- For roles that are designated as remote-eligible, employees cannot be located in: AL, AK, AR, DE, GA, HI, IL, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MS, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, WV, WI, WY. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. A role is remote-eligible only when it is listed as "Remote" in the job location.
Qualifications
- Automated Optical Inspection (AOI), Cleanroom Operations, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Analytics, Design of Experiments (DOE), Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Regulations, Equipment Qualification, Flying Probe, Optical Microscopy, Process Control, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Structured Problem Solving, Surface Metrology, Technical Writing Documentation
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience | Required
- $115,800.00 - $151,935.00
- This role in Beaverton, Oregon pays between $115,800.00 and $151,935.00 per year, depending on your experience, skills, and background. Pay may vary in other locations. We offer a full benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, a 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), and paid time off. You’ll also be eligible for quarterly profit-sharing bonuses and flexible spending or savings accounts.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
- FormFactor is an equal opportunity employer. FormFactor complies with all national, state, and local laws that seek to promote equal opportunities for any applicant or employee without regard to age, race, color, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, military service, or any other legally protected characteristics. These protections apply to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, and compensation.
- For roles that are designated as remote-eligible, employees cannot be located in: AL, AK, AR, DE, GA, HI, IL, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MS, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, WV, WI, WY. This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. A role is remote-eligible only when it is listed as "Remote" in the job location.
About FormFactor
Semiconductors2300 employeesFounded 1993
Manufacturer of semiconductor test and measurement equipment.
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