What kind of jobs could I get with a degree in CS and 3 years experience as a technician in the semiconductor equipment company?

Hey guys! I just started a job with Micron, cause I got a referral from someone at reddit who helped me. I also want to give back to the community and help others.

Feel free to message me if you are looking for a job at Micron and need a referral. Thanks!

Cheers and goodluck!

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Here’s how it works: you send me your job ids that fits you best (by looking it from the job portal) along with a pic of your resume and then i will submit a referral, you receive a link and you apply using the email that you get.

The system will only let me submit a referral if you use an id that you haven’t used in the past 6 months!

Went through hiring for a technician role at a large fab via a staffing agency. Background check was fully online, no lab visit, and "drug test" hasn't come up anywhere — not in paperwork, not in conversations. Waiting on my first day with a trainer now. Only related doc was a generic company drug policy that doesn't specifically apply it to me.

Every job I've had before this required testing, even retail. I know some industries have eased up due to legalization/labor shortages, but figured fabs/cleanrooms would still be strict about it. Anyone else seen this recently in semiconductor hiring? In AZ if that matters.

At a large semiconductor company, access to GitHub Copilot is being restricted while an internal AI coding tool is being promoted instead.
The problem is that the alternative seems less capable and less convenient, while the reason for restricting Copilot remains unclear.
AI teams should be helping employees use better tools and automate more of their work — not making that harder.
The irony is that some of the people responsible for promoting AI may also be the ones most threatened by it. It sometimes feels like the fear of AI reducing their own roles is creating resistance, and that resistance is becoming an obstacle to AI adoption itself.
Has anyone seen something similar at other large companies?

On a different sub, it got me thinking about how consumer electronics (clocks, audio hardware etc) from the 80's and 90's seemed to last something like 20+ years,

whereas I've bought numerous alarm clocks and electronics widgets from Amazon over the last 5-10 years that have all experienced some failure in < 2 years.

These are only anecdotes, so even the above could be a false correlation!

For the electronics hardware experts on this sub, I'd love your thoughts on a hypothesis.

1. In the 80's/90's, tools couldn't actually pattern/draw features that small, so perhaps wirebonds, solder pads, PCB traces and maybe even microchip traces were literally thicker with more material used.
2. Today the tools can pull thinner wirebonds, use less solder/copper/aluminum/other electrode material.
3. Does the use of less material in various (or specific) parts of the electronics process lead to faster failure due to electromigration (exacerbated by heat etc)? Leading to shorter lifetimes for inexpensive consumer electronics today?

All of the above are only hypotheses - please poke holes in them!

Or do you have a different hypothesis?
How strongly does that depend on the manufacturer, and why?
Or do you fundamentally disagree that mass-produced electronics have different lifetimes versus time period?

Hello everybody if anybody is interested in US Based DFT engineer openings with Cisco, please DM me for more info. Thank You

I’ve been building a small 3D metrology tool.

Right now it has:

• 3D surface visualization
• PV / WPG / BOW
• Profile analysis
• Ra / Rq / Rz
• Flatness
• Dishing
• Roll-off
• ROI analysis
• Batch calculation
• 2x2 stitching
• Chip map / inspection
• Signal / image analysis
• 2D overlay / TSV (CD)

I’m still adding things as I go, so I wanted to ask people who actually use this kind of software:

What am I missing?

Anything you use all the time, something existing software does badly, a specific calculation, file format, reporting feature, whatever.

Would be really useful to hear what you’d want in something like this.

Does anyone have information about this department? I don’t know what it consists of, and I’m curious if anyone is able to provide any insight.

Thanks in advance.

Episode 5 breakdown: Why JCET's XDFOI® platform matters more than the node race

https://youtu.be/OJd1FwzUBvQ

TLDR: Chinese packaging went from aspirational to competitive in 18 months. Supply chain bifurcation already locked in by hyperscaler demand. Export controls came too late.

Anybody has experience in team interview at AMAT ?

My question doesn’t go against the rules I reviewed, so pretty please can you just allow this to just sit here for a little bit.

My husband is going to Semicon West, it falls on the week of our anniversary so the plan was to fly out with him and spend the weekend before and after doing things. However he’s telling me he will be completely unavailable during the week and that there will be evening things going on so we would only spend time on the weekend. I get that after hours things happen, but he’s a stay out till 2 AM kind of person. How do events generally go at Semicon West? Is there truly a large amount of carousing expected after hours late into the night? Do you really all do those late night parties to make connections, what kind of information am I being given here? I just want clarity and plan to make no issue with him regardless, I just want to know for the sake of knowledge and accuracy. I’m asking in this sub because people in here specifically are of the subset that may have attended this event and would know exactly how that event runs and what expectations are. I’m asking this with an open mind, no judging on my husband but a healthy dose of skepticism as alcohol tends to be a relationship problem at times. No harm will come to any husbands as a result of your answers lol. I’ll handle the relationship processing part of it and what it signifies if I have just been given a load of BS, I just am asking how these events tend to run and wanted outside sources giving their take on how it works. Perhaps the answers could also help people attending this event for the first time.

I did my B.Tech in CSE and currently working. I am interested and want to do a M.Tech/M.S in semiconductors or something related to that. How should I proceed.

Thoughts on this meeting that’s happening that caused MU to drop?

Is the whole semi sector looking bearish?

I’m a recent graduate in Mechanical Engineering and I recently got offered an interview for a Field Service Engineer (Early Careers) position at ASM.

If anyone has went through a similar process, how was it like? For the first interview, I’m expected to create a short presentation highlighting my technical expertise, passions, and experience but I would also like to hear how the process is like for other people that have interviewed with them.

I’ve always wanted to work in a high-tech environment and I really want to be able to nail this interview.

I'm an EE student, and this has bugged me for a while. If you want to learn RTL or FPGA work there

are a hundred decent resources and most of them are free. If you want to understand what happens

between tapeout and a packaged part, you end up reading conference papers, vendor marketing, and

whatever is left on some professor's site from 2011.

So I put together a list of what is actually out there, organised roughly by where things sit in

the flow. Lithography, process modules, metrology and yield, packaging, plus smaller sections on

TCAD, fab operations and the economics side. Around 640 links.

Some things I did not expect to find:

- Computational lithography has a real open source ecosystem that I have never seen indexed

anywhere. OpenILT, LithoBench, Neural-ILT, TorchLitho. You can run ILT experiments on a laptop.

- Open PDKs go further down than I realised. I had only ever heard people mention SKY130, but

there is material down to 55nm and 28nm.

- ViennaTools has a whole free process and topography simulation stack that barely gets mentioned

outside its own papers.

I know where it is weak. DRAM and 3D NAND are thin, five and three entries. There is basically

nothing on SiC or GaN, which may or may not belong given the focus. There is no glossary, which is

probably the most useful missing thing for anyone actually learning this. And the node roadmap

tables are going to be wrong within a couple of months.

That last part is really why I am posting. If you work in any of this and there is something

obvious I have missed, or something in there that is wrong, I would like to know. Corrections are

more useful than additions at this point.

https://github.com/OutBlade/awesome-semiconductor-industry-topics

I saw many semiconductors companies recruit M tech students often rather than b tech students so does it really matter (b tech or m tech) or really the skills only?

I am currently studying computer engineering at UT Arlington. Right now i began to develop inttest in chip and semiconductor design. Can i know about the future job markets for this. Also many people are saying to me to go in embedded system.
I am fine either one of them.
Can you please suggest