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Company
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, TSMC
Location
Taiwan
Job Category
R&D
Job Type
Engineer / Admin
Employment Type
Regular
Posted
Aug 03, 2023
Established in 1987 and headquartered in Taiwan, TSMC pioneered the pure-play foundry business model with an exclusive focus on manufacturing its customers’ products. In 2023, the company served 528 customers with 11,895 products for high performance computing, smartphones, IoT, automotive, and consumer electronics, and is the world’s largest provider of logic ICs with annual capacity of 16 million 12-inch equivalent wafers. TSMC operates fabs in Taiwan as well as manufacturing subsidiaries in Washington State, Japan and China, and its ESMC subsidiary plans to begin construction on a fab in Germany in 2024. In Arizona, TSMC is building three fabs, with the first starting 4nm production in 2025, the second by 2028, and the third by the end of the decade.

RD Integration starts with the definitions, including transistor architecture and design building blocks, of a new technology node. Then, a manufacturable process flow is developed for evaluations and further improvements. The tasks may involve multidiscipline technical knowledge bases and project management skills. The job will require a lot of collaborations, so frequent communication should be expected. Test structure are designed in order to evaluate the manufacturing processes. Test vehicles will be built, and real chips will be validated through yield, performance, and reliability learning cycles. The goal is to deliver an optimized semiconductor technology that will meet the required chip performance, power, area-per-function, costs, and time-to-market (PPACt) for our customers.
Job Responsibilities
1. Development of world-class cutting-edge technology, and responsible for the success of the A14/N2 technology: 
    
    (1) Process integration across process modules, including test key design, tape out, device analysis, 
          simulation, model, and robust. 
    (2) Test key designs for design rule validation, electrical modeling, and yield learning. 
    (3) Characterization of state-of-the-art devices, spice targets' setting for modelling, occasional bench 
          measurement. 
    (4) Lot handling: periodically serves as on-duty engineer to coordinate device lots' handling.

2. Advanced process integration development: integration and baseline sustaining to meet process KPIs on performance/ yield/ reliability/ manufacturability in A14/N2 program.
3. Advanced integration baseline process transfer to volume production.
4. Data analysis to identify the issue and issue owner.
5. Co-work with various teams to evaluate new processes and solve the issue.
6. Routine integration logistic job.
Job Qualifications
1. Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electronics/Electrical Engineering, Solid state physics field, or knowledge domain in MOSFET, solid state electronics.
2. Personal traits:
    
    (1) Proactive personality. 
    (2) Good team player. 
    (3) Good communication skills: be able to work within cross-functional teams. 
    (4) Self-motivated and goal-oriented: Good technical problem-solving, analytical skills and strong sense of ownership.

3. Fluent in Mandarin and English.
4. Cell design, layout, simulation experience is preferred.
5. Experience in process integration is a plus (but not required).

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) reflects TSMC’s core values and business philosophy and is essential for our future success. Our commitment to DE&I allows us to create an environment where every employee, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, political affiliation, or sexual orientation, can bring their unique perspective and experiences to work, enabling us to drive profitability, increase productivity, and unleash innovation. To strive to create a workplace that is equitable and accessible to all employees, we also provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture where every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute to our mission and provide excellent service to our global customers.