Field Process Engineer 4

About the Role

At Lam, as a Field Process Engineer you are a customer-focused expert on our equipment, pushing the boundaries to meet customer needs. You’re responsible for completing process support, evaluation, and documentation of process outputs for hardware modifications and upgrades. You play a vital role in supporting the customer in installations, training, and identifying design improvements with product groups.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide process support, installation, resolve and improve process/system/productivity, and develop processes of new applications of Lam equipment at customer sites.
• Serve as key field support for Beta sites, evaluations, or first-in-fab installations.
• Design and conduct experiments, collect data, analyze results, generate reports, and provide recommendations to optimize device architecture and process modules.
• Partner with customers to meet requirements for new technology process, to support existing processes, and to address process deviations through root cause analysis.
• Develop new or modified processes, define best known method process recipes, and partner with the hardware engineering to define chamber requirements and characterize hardware designs to meet customer performance requirements.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and customers to understand their needs, technology roadmaps, process flow, requirements, and business challenges.
• Represent Lam to our valued customers and deliver exceptional customer satisfaction.
• Present technical and marketing materials with a win-win mindset to keep customers informed about products and services to address their needs.
• Provides technical leadership, support, and instruction for Field Service Engineers, Technicians, sub-contractors, and customers on installs, repairs, operations, and coordinates application of new procedures.
• Collaborate with Field Service Engineers on complex problems impacting process output.
• Coordinates statistical analysis of failure rates and develops continuous improvement plan (CIP).
• Recommends design changes to key technical solutions, and process development, and monitors performance trends.
• Support customer’s IT and Data Science/Analytics teams.
• Provide structured feedback to Lam EI Dev and Product teams on:
• Feature gaps
• Operational pain points
• Scalability concerns
• Contribute to broader Lam EI strategy discussions when requested.
• Support system startups (new clusters, tools, chambers).
• Follow EI data analytic workflows to quickly identify tool availability issues while monitoring fleet performance.
• Follow EI data analytic workflows for tool downs/escalation troubleshooting to quickly identify potential root causes.
• Facilitate creation of reports:
• New Lam Tool installations
• Installed Base monitoring
• Customer reviews

Requirements & Tech Stack

• PhD in Electronics, Chemistry, Physics, Material Science, or related field; OR Masters of Science with 3+ years of relevant work experience; OR Bachelors of Science with 6+ years of work experience.
• Proficiency in computer applications, including data analysis tools, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software.
• Ability to work in a cleanroom environment, wearing personal protective safety equipment, or cleanroom suit, and on-call if needed.
• In-depth understanding of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and/or Design of Experiments (DOE).
• LamAutoArchiver & LamArchiver Tool Software (Maintain working knowledge across tool, chamber, and EI data domains).
• All EI Applications.
• Chamber process fundamentals.
• Process control and data set structures.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication, written and verbal, and customer relationship skills.
• Effective organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, reacting to shifting priorities, and meeting business needs and deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams, customers, and partners.
• Collaborative mindset in matrixed environment.
• Act as local EI subject matter expert (SME).
• Support internal training and knowledge sharing when needed.