Semiconductor Foundry Process Engineering Expert

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Semiconductor Foundry Process Engineering Expert to provide technical leadership and expertise to defense clients on advanced semiconductor technologies. The role involves advising on technology access, developing strategies, and creating roadmaps for improved collaboration in semiconductor engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise to defense clients in the areas of state-of-the-art semiconductor foundry technologies and process engineering
• Advise the government on advanced technology node access and capabilities
• Bring expertise across the areas of advanced processing for semiconductors, including process development, process modeling and simulation, process characterization, and related technologies
• Define strategies and technology assessment methods to enable shared understanding of defense packaging objectives, and testing and evaluation of those technologies, and develop roadmaps, business models, and technology models for improved access and collaboration in the future

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience working directly for a semiconductor foundry in an engineering or technical capacity
• 5+ years of experience with the design and analyses of semiconductor process technologies
• Experience with new computing paradigms such as compute-in-memory, neuromorphic, reversible computing, Cryo-CMOS, superconducting electronics, spintronics, magnetic logic, optical computing, bio-based computing, and quantum computing
• Experience with digital and analog design, including transistor design, memory architectures, and microwave or mm-wave IC design
• Knowledge of new semiconductor foundry processes and architectures, silicon and compound semiconductor materials, device physics and structure, carrier transport mechanisms, lithography, and source-mask optimization
• Knowledge of the types of semiconductor fabrication and foundry process technologies used today and the gaps in today's technologies and approaches, ongoing research, what promising efforts are underway, and their respective goals and timelines
• Ability to perform analytical calculations of semiconductor process technologies, provide accurate technical assessment of various approaches, and incorporate these into technology roadmaps to guide industry activities
• Ability to comprehend defense needs for advanced microelectronics, evaluate the performance of various technologies and vendors, and define a technology and business roadmap that defines the path forward to senior stakeholders
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Microelectronics, Engineering, or Semiconductor Physics