As a Yield Enhancement Engineer, you will drive strategic yield improvement initiatives across Micron's advanced memory portfolio, including DRAM, NAND, and HBM technologies. You will collaborate globally to optimize manufacturing performance, accelerate business outcomes, and advance engineering excellence through data-driven methodologies and AI-enabled solutions.
Responsibilities
Lead strategic yield improvement programs across DRAM, NAND, and HBM technologies by converting complex manufacturing and product challenges into scalable, actionable solutions.
Drive cross-fab yield benchmarking, performance analysis, and predictive modeling to identify improvement opportunities, establish performance targets, and accelerate yield optimization across global manufacturing sites.
Define, deploy, and sustain Yield Improvement (YE) Best Known Methods (BKMs) globally, enabling standardization, information exchange, and engineering excellence throughout Micron's manufacturing network.
Champion the digital transformation of Yield Management Systems (YMS) and Yield Enhancement workflows through automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics in partnership with Fab, SMAI, and multi-functional stakeholders.
Provide technical leadership and influence across Yield Enhancement (YE), Process Integration Engineering (PIE), Process Engineering (PE), Global Quality (GQ), Technology Development (TD), and Manufacturing teams to drive alignment and execution of strategic yield objectives.
Lead early-stage technology investigation and process integration for next-generation DRAM architectures.
Compensation
$159,000.00 - $271,000.00 a year
Responsibilities
Lead pathfinding investigations of next-generation DRAM concepts, materials, process architectures, and advanced patterning solutions, including High-NA EUV
Develop and integrate process flows across lithography, dry etch, thin films, CMP, metrology, device engineering, and manufacturing while balancing performance, yield, reliability, manufacturability, and cost
Design and implement DOE and technology-learning experiments, using statistical and AI-assisted analytics to evaluate electrical, defectivity, metrology, reliability, and yield data
Collaborate with NY CREATES, equipment suppliers, research partners, and Micron teams to evaluate emerging capabilities and influence technology priorities while protecting Micron intellectual property
Support the transition of successful pathfinding concepts into technology development and production by documenting key learning, technical assumptions, risks, and recommendations
Requirements
Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical field
Nice to have: Ph.D. or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related field
Lead process integration and yield improvement efforts for new product introductions, collaborating with internal and external teams to enhance manufacturing yield and quality.
Responsibilities
Analyze yield at engineering sample stage and characterize performance and manufacturing yield window of NPI products
Perform data mining and statistical analysis of wafer sorting and final testing parameters
Trace probe yield, final test yield, and Etest/WAT to identify and drive continuous improvement
Collaborate with internal business product, testing, technology, and foundry management teams to improve product quality and yield
Assist test engineering team in resolving test procedure issues
Requirements
Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering or Material Science
