Senior/Senior Staff Yield Control Technology Engineer

Location:

(HTA) NCP (Hillsboro, OR)

Job ID:

R0106474

Date Posted:

2025-09-15

Company Name:

HITACHI HIGH-TECH AMERICA, INC.

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

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HITACHI HIGH-TECH AMERICA, INC.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE: Senior/ Senior Staff Yield Control Technology Engineer

DIVISION NAME: Metrology and Analytical Systems Divisions (MAD)

REPORTS TO: Manager, Defect Metrology

POSITION STATUS: Full-Time

WORK LOCATION: Hillsboro, OR (NCP)

WORK STYLE DESIGNATION: Hybrid (+50% Onsite)          

WORK STYLE REQUIREMENT: Onsite – 80% / Remote – 20%

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

TRAVEL REQUIRED: Up to 25%

POSITIONS SUPERVISED: None

EXPECTED PAY RANGE:

Senior Yield Control Technology Engineer: $130,559.58 - $179,519.42 Annually

Senior Staff Yield Control Technology Engineer: $144,297.70 - $198,409.33 Annually

The pay ranges listed above are for each position’s base pay only. This position may be eligible for other compensation including incentive pay and/or allowances. Candidates will receive additional information during the interview and selection process.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Yield Control Technology Engineer (SYCTE) is responsible for the technical leadership of product support for all Inspection and e-Beam tools sales activities. The SYCTE performs a variety of duties including product development activities, interfacing with design engineers, writing technical papers related to Inspection and/or e-Beam toolsets, conducting technical presentations, conducting demonstrations, performing advanced applications support, and delivering training to customers and other engineers.  Part of the SYCTE’s job requires travel to customer sites in order to support tool installations, conduct acceptance tests, and provide general applications support. The SYCTE will use judgment and initiative to work on projects to improve overall toolset technical capabilities, productivity, and efficiency.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical product support for all Inspection and/or e-Beam tools sales activities.
• Provide applications support for customers through recipe automation audits.
• Provide technical advice to marketing team for sales and trade shows.
• Review of training and demonstration materials for technical accuracy.
• Evaluates design, HW/SW, and Applications of systems and products based on Optical and/or e-Beam technology.
• Interacts with HW/SW design teams to assist in overall development of the systems by specifying, selecting, and qualifying system requirements and system performance models, developing and implementing procedures, and/or evaluating and selecting appropriate applications to suit customer needs.
• Works with design teams to complete system or product frameworks, system specifications, input/output, and working parameters for hardware and/or software compatibility, system interfaces, and applications.
• Identifies, analyzes, and resolves system design weaknesses. Influences the shaping of future products by contributing to the framework (architecture) used across multiple products or systems. Provides multi-layered technical expertise for next generation initiatives.
• Coordinates design requirement reviews with appropriate engineering/scientific personnel to ensure product compliance to customer requirements.
• Provides multi-discipline support to customers by resolving technical issues associated with SW and HW of Optical and/or e-Beam products or systems, testing of new and existing designs, and documentation of changes through a formal engineering change notification process.
• Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services at customer sites including delivering new or upgrading existing products and reviewing processing techniques and methods applied in the use and evaluation of the products.
• Compiles and evaluates test data to determine appropriate limits and variables for system specifications.
• May conceive and plan projects involving definition and selection of new concepts, equipment automation technology, and approaches in the processing or development of new or improved processes.
• May provide recommendations for cost reduction efforts.
• May apply quantitative analysis in determining root cause of highly technical problems and propose, develop, and implement solutions for corrective action
• Maintain appropriate records of