Title: Research Scientist

Location: Austin TX USA 78741

Duration: 10 Months

Description:

Intake Notes:

Simulation experience: Molecular Dynamic and/or Density Functional Theory Simulation experience.

Degree: Computational Science

Other key experience: Photo lithography process and simulation experience. Wet Chemical material simulation.

Degree program: Material Science

Other key experience: EUV simulation experience, Metal Oxide Resist research experience

Position Summary:

This position within the Client ATG CT team will involve the use of chemical engineering fundamentals and principles to develop, optimize and design new and existing advanced photolithography applications for the Clean Track business unit. The position requires expertise in transport phenomena, thermodynamics, chemical reactions and reaction kinetics while having the ability to development predictive models and apply them to semiconductor industry applications.

Responsibilities:

• Build physical-chemical and atomistic scale models to better understand and optimize semiconductor lithography processes.
• Modeling chemical reactions and resist develop processes on semiconductor surfaces.
• Building models into simulation software to optimize tool and process design.
• Participating in system engineering specification development, system documentation and implementation of a system prototype.
• Interfacing with development team to define project strategy and deliverables.
• Fully documenting work to provide colleagues with enough detail to maintain engineering simulations and/or code.
• Strong emphasis is placed on candidates that can find solutions to difficult problems through structured project management while working in a team environment.
• Good communications skills are considered critical. The candidate will communicate project goals and status updates internally.
• Some international travel might be required.

Education and Experience :

• The candidate must have a PhD degree in Chemistry, Physics or equivalent field specializing in the area of computational Chemistry.
• Experience model DFT simulations
• Experience modeling atomic interactions and reactions with Molecular Dynamics software
• Experience with scientific software development to extend existing software for custom simulation and analysis needs is required.
• Experience with DFT simulations for reaction network search, photo-electro- ionization is desired. Experience translating into lattice models is desired.
• Experience with LAMMPS software is required.
• Experience with Gaussian software is desired.
• Strong project management experience is required.
• Strong technical writing ability is required.
• Excellent presentation and verbal communication skills are required.
• Ability to execute tasks with minimal oversight is required.
• Experience in coding with MATLAB, Python, Julia, R, etc. to solve technical problems is desired.
• Knowledge of Quantum Chemistry is desired.
• Knowledge of the semiconductor industry is desired.
• Fluent in Japanese is desired but optional.