Process Engineer (Wafer Cleaning and Lamination) - Muar, Malaysia
Originally posted 14 September 2026 by the employer — open 8 days.
About the role
This Process Engineer role focuses on owning and improving Wafer Cleaning and Lamination processes to ensure stable production, high yield, process capability, and compliance with quality and safety requirements.
What you'll do
- Own and manage Wafer Cleaning and Lamination processes to ensure stable production, quality, yield, and process capability.
- Develop, optimize, and maintain process parameters, recipes, and operating conditions.
- Lead process troubleshooting and root cause analysis for process abnormalities, defects, excursions, and yield issues.
- Drive continuous improvement projects to improve process capability, yield, productivity, and cost.
- Establish and maintain Process Control Plans, FMEAs, work instructions, and process specifications.
- Analyze process and yield data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Support new product introduction (NPI), process qualification, engineering runs, and process buy-off.
- Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, quality, and manufacturing requirements for wet chemical processes.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Semiconductor Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 2–5 years of experience in semiconductor, electronics, PCB, panel-level packaging, or wafer fabrication manufacturing environments.
- Strong knowledge of wafer cleaning processes such as acid/alkaline etching, chemical concentration control, etch rate control, and chemical bath management.
- Familiarity with structured problem-solving and quality tools such as SPC, FMEA, DOE, 8D, 5 Whys, and Pareto analysis.
- Experience in process troubleshooting, yield improvement, and root cause analysis.
- Good understanding of process control and manufacturing quality systems.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience in Wet Etch / Chemical Process operations.
- Experience with automated process equipment.
- Knowledge of semiconductor wafer/panel processing and packaging processes.
- Experience with Wafer / panel cleaning and surface treatment.
- Experience with Lamination process.
- Experience with Defect and yield analysis.
- Experience with SPC / Process Capability analysis (Cp Cp , Cpk Cpk).
- Experience with DOE / Process optimization.
- Knowledge of Chemical safety and handling.
- Experience with Semiconductor / Panel Level Packaging / PCB manufacturing.
Skills: Wafer Cleaning, Lamination processes, process optimization, troubleshooting, yield data analysis
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 82-day median for Process Engineering roles.
Process Engineering · Semiconductor Process
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Open roles in category
1041
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Median days open
82 d
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Median salary
$148k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | STMicroelectronics | All employers we track in this specialty (1041 roles · 60 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 45 | 1041 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 267 | 9417 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 68 d | 82 d (−14 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $148k |
Skills observed across this category: Wafer Cleaning, Lamination processes, process optimization, troubleshooting, yield data analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 349 open roles · median 138 d
- Applied Materials · 87 open roles · median 139 d
- GlobalFoundries · 71 open roles · median 91 d
- Texas Instruments · 46 open roles · median 34 d
- STMicroelectronics (this employer) · 44 open roles · median 68 d
- Entegris · 42 open roles · median 29 d
How we counted: 1041 open Process Engineering (Semiconductor Process) roles from 60 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.