Director of Engineering

We are looking for a rock star to be the Director of Engineering for our privately held firm serving semiconductor and electrical industries.

If you have experience in Silicon Photonics and deep experience with semiconductor fabrication processes, you would be well positioned for this role.

This Direct Hire position is 100% on site in the Louisville, KY area and comes with a strong benefits package, including relocation assistance.

About the Company : Our client is a privately held, Global Leader in its field, serving the semiconductor and electrical industries.

They are known for a great work culture often described as friendly, flexible, family-oriented and fun. They have an exciting opening for a key leader in their organization Director of Engineering.

About the Role :

Only candidates WITH EXPERIENCE in semiconductor fabrication processes will be considered. No need to apply unless you have such experience.

This position will be responsible for developing wafer fabrication process, integration flows, and metrology tools for enabling novel devices to be fabricated.

This position will work with the engineering, manufacturing, sales, and marketing teams to ensure that products being developed for our Glass Core Technology (GCT) customers meet performance, design, and price requirements, and they can be further fabricated and integrated into the customers’ final products.

Required Skills :

• Demonstrated success at developing process flows which integrate process modules (litho, deposition, etch) to deliver new products for customers on time .
• Experience with Silicon Photonics, Hard Drives and III-VI Chips experience is required.
• Expertise with Glass, Silicon, Semiconductor, or Hard drive wafer process development and integration, qualification and high-volume manufacturing strongly desired.
• Experience with fab equipment including lithography (i-line), PVD, CVD, wet etch, dry etch (RIE), ECD Cu plating, electrical test, and characterization is strongly desired.
• Minimum of 5+ years of Engineering Management experience.
• Experience managing and growing an engineering group.
• Ability to work across functional groups and lead from the side

Preferred Skills :

• 10+ years of experience in wafer engineering and fabrication
• Ability to work across functional groups and lead from the side

Responsibilities :

A) Engineering leadership over GCT technology development and implementation, including :

• Through glass via (TGV) fabrication and filling technologies
• Wafer-based fabrication processes which allow electrical, optical and fluidic interconnects
• Process integration flows that enable novel device fabrication

B) Partner with Sales and Marketing to understand customers' requirements to inform the technology roadmap

C) Collaborate with operations to identify process and production issues to drive continuous improvement solutions

D) Partner with other internal development / product groups to ensure GCT devices work in their applications and integrate to their production & technology roadmaps

E) Create & execute technical project management plans with PMO to link up schedules and resources

F) Work jointly with Application Engineering to resolve technical issues during and after customer design in

G) Grow and develop the GCT Engineering team

Qualifications : Master’s Degree or greater in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or related field.

Pay range and compensation package : $180,000-220,000 + Benefits. Position is located in the Louisville KY area and is 100% on site.

We are an equality opportunity employer.