Senior Microelectronics Engineer

Are you looking for an exciting and innovative company with over 100 years of excellence and commitment to ethical business? Amentum is hiring a Senior Microelectronics Engineer to support our Trusted Microelectronics customer. The selected engineer will participate as a team member on large projects providing guidance on the microelectronics engineering processes, fabrication process, and provide technical guidance on supply chain risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

This position allows the comfort of working from your home; however, it may require local semiconductor company site visits with minimal notice. The candidate is expected to live within a reasonable driving distance of the San Jose area.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise in evaluating materials, hardware, and semiconductor components to identify supply chain vulnerabilities and provide mitigations to minimize risks.
• Identify threats to the supply chain to include cost volatility, material shortages, supplier financial issues, and failures and natural man-made disaster to help an organization foresee potential issues.
• Evaluate hardware/semiconductor parts to their raw materials in order to identify supply chain vulnerabilities.
• Research may include strategic planning and analysis; demand and capacity analysis; economic analysis; regulatory analysis; safety and risk analysis; system operation performance analysis; and information analysis.
• Conduct patent research as it pertains to art searches, drafting, and prosecuting patent applications.
• Provide guidance on patentability and infringement issues.
• Provide research and technical guidance on supply chain threats including cybersecurity threats, fraud, company profiling, and counterfeit parts for avoidance.
• Provide technical guidance to team on raw material usage, semiconductor fabrication process, packaging and any other technical guidance as necessary.
• Provide insightful, well-researched analysis of key analytic findings and guidance to clients with regard to supply chain risk mitigation.
• Participate as member of client's analytical working group.
• Provide on-site client support, including but not limited to client inquiries, requests for ad hoc reporting, miscellaneous research, and advice on analytic methods.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in lieu of degree
• 10 years of previous work experience working in the semiconductor industry
• Ability to obtain and maintain USG Secret clearance
• Demonstrated ability to conduct research in emerging semiconductor technologies, including artificial intelligence
• Possess a strong understanding of both legal and technical aspects of patents
• Ability to write technical white papers and research papers
• Self-motivated with excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in fast-paced, challenging environment
• Ability to support in-office visits and local travel, as required, possibly with short notice.
• Must live within a reasonable distance of the San Jose area

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or Doctoral degree
• Experience building relationships with suppliers and interfacing when necessary
• Experience working in fabrication or back-end systems for semiconductor companies
• Previous experience serving as a technical and risk assessment owner for supplier changes impacting raw materials
• Active Secret Security Clearance

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