Staff Engineer, NAND TD RDA

About the role

Micron is hiring a Staff Engineer for its NAND Technology Development (TD) Realtime Defect Analysis (RDA) team. The role leads the site-level RDA strategy and roadmap, drives defect analysis and containment, and works with Process Integration, Yield and Data Science to link inspection signals to device performance and yield.

Key responsibilities

• Own the site-level RDA strategy and annual roadmap aligned to NAND TD technology nodes.
• Analyse experimental and production flows to detect, classify and trend systematic and random defects.
• Establish, track and report program health metrics such as baseline health, detection rates, false positives and MTTR.
• Lead fast containment of defect excursions: tool quarantines, hold criteria and 8D corrective actions.
• Architect inspection recipes and sampling strategies, optimising sensitivity, throughput and cost of ownership.
• Correlate inspection signals with device performance and yield with Process Integration, Yield and Data Science.
• Influence supplier roadmaps and qualify next-generation optical and e-beam inspection capabilities.
• Standardise and share Best Known Methods (BKM) across global TD and manufacturing sites.
• Mentor engineers, develop succession plans and technical ladders, and champion safety and continuous improvement (kaizen/lean).

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of relevant semiconductor experience, or Master's/PhD with 5+ years.
• At least 1 year of hands-on RDA experience in semiconductor manufacturing or equipment engineering.
• Demonstrated expertise in defect inspection, process monitoring and yield learning.
• Recognised technical authority, strong mentoring and coaching, clear communication across technical and executive audiences, and comfort working in ambiguity.

Required skills

• RDA systems and workflows, optical and e-beam inspection technologies.
• Statistical data analysis, correlation development and large dataset interpretation.
• Semiconductor process integration and technology development.
• Root cause analysis and systematic problem solving (8D, DMAIC).