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The University of Oklahoma (OU) is currently looking to hire a Cleanroom Engineer joining the technical staff team to support the operation of the University's MREC cleanroom facility. This person is responsible for process support and development, user training, equipment troubleshooting, and repair of micro/nanofabrication and semiconductor processing systems in the flagship nanofabrication user facility in Oklahoma with researchers and engineers from academia and private industry. This position requires extensive work in the class 1000/10,000 cleanroom environment, with all staff and users wearing full-body cleanroom attire, including gown, boots, hood, facemask, safety glasses, and gloves.

Position Duties:

• Under the supervision of the MREC Committee, Director and the Lead Scientist, the position's job duties include:
• Serve as Process Engineer, performing duties in support of the MREC multi-user facility mission.
• Develop, optimize and document advanced micro- and nano-fabrication processes and techniques.
• Provide facility users with equipment training, semiconductor processing and nanoscale device process integration support.
• Troubleshoot, repair, install, operate and assist users with a wide variety of cleanroom equipment technologies and processes including: reactive ion etching (RIE, DRIE); vapor phase etching; wet chemical etching and cleaning of substrates using acids, bases, and solvents; atomic layer deposition; chemical vapor deposition (CVD, PECVD); physical vapor deposition (Thermal, E-beam, Sputtering); multi-level lithography using UV light, laser, electron-beam (E-Beam) writer and hybrid electron-beam lithography; wire bonding; chemical mechanical polishing; rapid thermal processing; wafer bonding and dicing; characterization metrology using scanning electron microscopy, optical and stylus profilometry, thin-film stress measurement, spectroscopic ellipsometry, and atomic force microscopy; and high purity gas cabinets, valve manifold boxes, and gas distribution systems.
• Develop standard operating procedures for the MREC cleanroom equipment.
• Develop user training documents and presentations in areas of thin film deposition, reactive ion etching, lithography, and nanoscale metrology
• Develop, perform, and document equipment qualification processes, measurements, and analysis using nanofabrication equipment and metrology tools.
• CAD design, layout, and optimization of device architectures.
• Maintain gas distributing equipment and process gasses, including toxic gasses and toxic gas monitoring systems.
• Performing process gas bottles changes.
• Work with the cleanroom engineering team to ensure timely repairs and having a sufficient spare parts inventory.
• Work with university facility management group to coordinate outages to minimize impact on cleanroom operations.
• Support of cleanroom daily operations by supervising cleanroom interns.
• Perform cleanroom contracted projects using fabrication and characterization techniques including thin film deposition, reactive ion etching, optical and e-beam lithography, and nanoscale metrology techniques.
• Assist with procurement, installation, start-up and processing development of new equipment.
• Provide support for equipment acquisition, installation, facilitation, troubleshooting and maintenance activities.
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies to ensure program development will not prematurely become obsolete.

Required Education: Bachelor's degree, AND:

• 36 months experience in the cleanroom environment

Equivalency/Substitution: Will accept 48 months of related experience in lieu of the bachelor's degree for a total of 84 months experience

Skills:

• Highly organized and able to handle multiple projects and deadlines
• Able to communicate well and build rapport quickly with students, faculty and staff
• Able to work well with interdepartmental teams and initiatives
• Willingness to work as an integral part of a high-energy team of engineers and scientists
• Strong desire to learn new technical skills
• Good communication, teamwork. and organization skills