Staff Engineer, CVD Advanced Process Development (NAND)

About the role

Micron is hiring a Staff Engineer for its CVD advanced process development team supporting NAND product development. The role develops, optimizes and characterizes thin-film processes to meet performance, reliability and manufacturability targets, and works closely with process integration, metrology, yield and manufacturing teams.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, optimize and characterize thin-film processes (CVD) to meet performance, reliability and manufacturability targets.
• Design and run experiments, analyze data and share results in technical forums.
• Perform film characterization (e.g. SEM, TEM, XPS, SIMS, AFM) and correlate results to process outcomes.
• Support process transfer and pilot-line execution, and sustain process maturity for owned processes.
• Work with Process Integration, Metrology, Surface/Characterization labs, Electrical Failure Analysis, Yield, Manufacturing and equipment vendors to ensure robust processes.
• Maintain documentation of experiments, process settings and learnings, and produce technical reports.
• Use AI-assisted tools responsibly to improve efficiency and quality, and share AI-enabled improvements.

Required profile

• PhD, or Master's degree with at least 3 years, or Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics or a related field.
• Fundamental knowledge of thin-film deposition and characterization; R&D/PD environment readiness is important.
• Ability to apply baseline digital fluency and role-appropriate AI literacy to research, analysis and problem solving.
• Preferred: exposure to dielectric and carbon-based films and NAND structural/electrical requirements, and experience with equipment suppliers or tool qualification/transfer.

Required skills

• Fundamentals of thin-film deposition (CVD) and film characterization.
• Basic DOE and SPC, and ability to analyze experimental data.
• Understanding of plasma/vacuum systems and process chemistry where applicable.
• Structured problem solving, clear communication and cross-functional collaboration.