Process Engineer – High Purity Rare Earth Oxide Powder Purification & Manufacturing

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

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Our Team

The Materials Center of Excellence (MCOE) team is responsible for developing and productization of chamber materials and critical components to enable Applied Material Customers to modify materials at atomic levels on the industrial scale with world class productivity and yield. To achieve this we employ some of the best brightest and most talented people in the world who work together as part of winning team delivering results.

The Opportunity

This role supports development scaleup and manufacturing control of highpurity ceramic and rareearth oxide powders spanning aqueous precipitation through calcination and final particle classification. The position is highly visible within MCOE and directly impacts contamination control defectivity and yield performance for semiconductor hardware.

What Youll Do

• Lead wet chemical powder manufacturing processes including controlled precipitation redox chemistry washing filtration drying and calcination

• Drive purity particle size distribution (PSD) morphology and agglomeration control across multiple product streams

• Scale processes from lab to pilot to highvolume manufacturing including equipment qualification and production ramp

• Establish process windows QA/QC checkpoints SPC and control plans to ensure longterm production consistency

• Partner with suppliers to manage feedstock variability and product quality

• Conduct failure analysis and rootcause investigations tied to particledriven defects and downstream hardware performance

• Define and align product specifications guardrails and measurement methodologies with application requirements

• Support capacity expansion and new material introductions (e.g. yttrium terbium and other rare earth elements)

Key Qualifications

• B.S. M.S. or Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Materials Science or related field (Masters or Ph.D. preferred)

• 510 years of experience in powder ceramics wet chemical or specialty materials manufacturing

• Handson experience with highpurity materials and contaminationsensitive environments

• Demonstrated success scaling chemical or materials processes from development into manufacturing

• Develop plan and execute material engineering projects for a range of projects

• Design collect data analyze and compile reports on significantly complex materials engineering experiments

• Assess the technical trade-offs compared to cost trade-offs

• Define and validate material measurement/analytical techniques. Train engineers on the techniques and guide them in the interpretation of the data

• Define and implement new methodologies define and apply new technologies and/or troubleshoot and resolve significantly complex materials engineering issues/problems for a range of products

• Interact with key customers to resolve significantly complex engineering issues for a range of products to address our customers High Value Problems (HVPs)

• Generate internal and external documentation for products presentations technical reports for integrated products and generate engineering specifications

Functional Knowledge

• Aqueous chemistry and precipitation kinetics (nucleation and growth control)

• Powder separation and purification methods (filtration centrifugation washing)

• Calcination and thermal processing of oxide materials (rotary kiln belt furnace)

• Particle and materials characterization: PSD BET SEM ICPMS XRD

• Statistical process control process consistency and manufacturing scaleup

Leadership

• Leads complex technical problems with a structured systemslevel approach

• Owns outcomes and drives execution from concept through stable production

• Influences crossfunctional teams spanning R&D manufacturing quality and suppliers

Problem Solving

• Strong rootcause analysis skills applied to particledriven defects and contamination issues

• Datadriven decision making in ambiguous highimpact environments

Impact

• Impacts product performance yield supplier strategy and capacity planning by ensuring robust scalable rare earth powder supply to enableApplied Materials next generation semiconductor equipment

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