Cleannroom Lithography Equipment & Production Engineer

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Alice & Bob is developing the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer to solve the world’s hardest problems.
The quantum computer we envision building is based on a new kind of superconducting qubit: the Schrödinger cat qubit 🐈‍⬛. In comparison to other superconducting platforms, cat qubits have the astonishing ability to implement quantum error correction autonomously!

We're a diverse team of 250+ brilliant minds from over 35 countries united by a single goal: to revolutionise computing with a practical fault-tolerant quantum machine. Are you ready to take on unprecedented challenges and contribute to revolutionising technology? Join us, and let's shape the future of quantum computing together!

Your tools

• Uptime, maintenance, execution and utilization of your process equipment.

• Preventive maintenance, first-level troubleshooting, supplier interventions, spares and consumables.

• Monitoring tool performance, and acting on parameter drift before it turns into scrap.

The weekly load plan

• Turn the weekly wafer launch plan into a tool-level plan: maintenance, qualification runs, downtime, engineering time allocated to Process Development Engineering, and each tool's unattended-run pattern.

• Level the load across qualified technicians, replan when a tool goes down, and flag early when the plan and the committed output no longer agree.

Execution at cadence and quality

• Run qualified recipes on experimental and test wafers, including unattended runs on critical tools.

• Escalate any step outside the process of reference to Process Development Engineering, and keep full traceability in the MES.

Operational documentation

• Write and improve the SOPs for your tools, turning implicit know-how into something a new operator can follow.

• Qualify and train technicians, jointly with your Process Owner counterpart.

Continuous improvement

• Remove bottlenecks on your tools — cycle time, batch size, load configuration, changeover — and feed the capacity model and ramp plan.

• Track and report your KPIs; contribute to failure analysis when a fabrication cause is suspected.

Safety

• Apply cleanroom, chemical handling and equipment safety rules, and contribute to risk assessments, including for unattended and out-of-hours operation. • 3+ years hands-on in a semiconductor cleanroom, pilot line, or micro/nanofabrication facility.

• Direct experience operating and maintaining process equipment — not only specifying or supervising it. Equipment field service experience counts.

• Preventive maintenance, troubleshooting and supplier coordination on capital equipment.

• Solid grounding in semiconductor unit processes: deposition, lithography, etching, wet processing, metrology — and in vacuum systems and their maintenance.

• Comfort with production and equipment data: MES or equivalent, spreadsheets, basic statistical analysis of tool and process data.

• Experience building a load plan under equipment, maintenance and personnel constraints, and reporting against it.

• Experience writing SOPs and training people on them.

• An ownership mindset: the availability and output of your tools are your result, not someone else's.

• The judgement to stop a run and escalate, and the habit of communicating bad news factually and early.

• Master's or engineering degree in microelectronics, materials science, physics or a related field — or equivalent experience.

• Fluent English

Strongly valued for this scope — electron-beam lithography (tool operation, job preparation, exposure strategy, cassette and holder management); direct-write or laser lithography; resist processing; wet chemistry and lift-off, with the associated handling and wet bench safety practice.

Also valued — R&D or pilot-line environments where production and development share the same tools; superconducting materials, Josephson junction or quantum device fabrication; commissioning or qualifying tools in a new facility. On site in Aubervilliers, in cleanroom garment daily. Standard working hours — no shift work and no night work. • Screening call with Alexandra, Talent Acquisition (30 min)

• Interview with the Cleanroom Operations Manager (45 min)

• Technical interview with the team (60 min)

• Leadership and fit interview (60 min)