ACARA Jobs
Senior Process Engineer - Dry Etch
Apply- ID: 556124
- Posted: 12/16/2025
- Location: Newport Beach, CA
- Category: Pro - Engineering
- Job Type: Direct Placement
- Duration: Direct Placement
Description
Acara Solutions is hiring a Senior Process Engineer for our Newport Beach client's Dry Etch department. This is a full time direct hire position with great benefits.
Salary: 100-150k
Overview: Sustain, improve, and develop etch processes in a volume manufacturing facility. Partner with Operations, Equipment Engineering Support, Integration, and R&D to deliver products on time to customer specification. Interface with global counterparts to benchmark and improve etch processes and procedures company wide. Create and/or modify operations specifications.
Responsibilities:
- Sustaining and improving etch processes in a high volume manufacturing environment. Monitoring and controlling etch processes, troubleshooting yield problems, developing process enhancements, and implementing new processes to address quality and bottleneck situations.
- Installing and qualifying new tools and process technologies.
- Supporting process and technology transfers.
- Participating in troubleshooting taskforces as needed and helping develop solutions that prevent recurrence.
- Supporting Integration team and Quality organization to ensure technologies meet all qualification and reliability requirements.
- Using lean manufacturing and six sigma processes.
Job Requirements
Required Skills / Qualifications:
Either B.S. Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Solid State Physics, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant engineering physical science discipline is required.
Preferred Skills / Qualifications:
- Prefer minimum 5 years etch process engineering experience with B.S. Degree or 3 years' experience with advanced degree.
- Demonstrated expertise with TEL Unity, AMAT DPS, MXP and/or LAM2300, 9400, 9600 etch tools and processes.
- Demonstrated expertise with Akrion, DNS, SEZ, and/or Semitool wet etch tools and processes.
- Knowledge of PROMIS wip management software and JMP Statistical analysis software. Six sigma certification
- Demonstrated knowledge of etch principles, theories, concepts, and techniques.
- Ability to execute definable portions of a project or lead own small projects.
- Ability to use knowledge to provide solutions to a variety of difficult problems.
- Strong organizational skills; demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and able to react to shifting priorities to meet business needs
- Experience with design of experiment techniques and data analysis
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and commitments
- Excellent interpersonal skills, energetic, and self starter
- Outstanding communication skills - both written and verbal
Demonstrated ability to work well within a global team or environment
Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.