Senior Transmission Electron Microscope (Tem) Engineer - Albany, NY

Introduction

As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you'll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today's market.

Your Role and Responsibilities

At IBM Research, we invent things that matter to the world. Today, we are pioneering the most promising and disruptive technologies that will transform industries and society, including the future of AI, Blockchain and Quantum Computing. We are driven to discover. With more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents, IBM Research is one of the world's largest and most influential corporate research labs.

IBM Research at Albany Nanotech is currently seeking of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) engineer in our physical characterization and failure analysis group. The ideal candidate will have a background in physics, material science, or electrical engineering. Knowledge and experience with semiconductor unit process, integration, and electrical testing will be preferred. The candidate needs to independently perform TEM analysis on hardware created by state-of-the-art semiconductor technology, including EUV lithography, and work as a team to support multiple projects. TEM analysis will be using the spherical aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscope, with sub-angstrom resolution, EDX, EELS, and diffraction techniques for dimension, interface, composition, grain mapping and strain analysis. With the new device architectures such as nanosheet/gate all around, further scaling of critical dimension, and new power distribution approaches, TEM analysis will be even more challenging. Prior experience in TEM and technology development is preferred; innovation and critical thinking are important as well. Candidates need to have clear and effective communication skills.

The TEM engineer will work with failure analysis, unit process development, integration, and design teams to understand the analysis need. The TEM engineer will apply their expert knowledge to plan the analysis actions using suitable techniques. As the senior member of the group, the engineer will also train technicians, help maintain the group productivity, and TEM/FIB operation.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Electron microscopy

• Failure analysis

• Device

• Physics

• Semiconductor

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Physics

• Material science