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Senior Defect Engineer

🏢 Plessey Semiconductors Ltd · 📍 Plymouth, England · 🕒 Oct 14, 2026 · Ref: OP-VERIF-A3EC870A
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£35,536 - £45,437
£2,961 - £3,786 / mo
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Position Overview & Specifications

Scope:

Work with R&D/Engineering group in defining critical defect inspection step and support / lead defect reduction activities.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Work with R&D/Engineering group on new product development
  • Develop new CIRCL recipe and optimisation of existing recipes to detect defect of interest
  • Responsible for analysing new/unknown defects, OOC lots, Defect Pareto, Defect trends
  • Update relevant documents and specifications as required and fan out to production/manufacturing
  • Defect champion for defect reduction/yield improvement activities
  • Establish best practice on Defect inspection procedure and sampling
  • Guide junior engineers on Yield/Defect improvement activities

Key Skills/Experience required:

  • Degree in Engineering with min 3 years of semiconductor experience
  • Prior working knowledge on Defect scanning tool (CIRCL, KLA)
  • Prior working knowledge on using Klarity software
  • Familiar with Failure Analysis method (FIB, SEM, EDX)
  • Able to create Klarity scheduler recipes

Qualifications:

  • Degree in Engineering with min 3 years of semiconductor experience

Plessey is an embedded technologies developer at the forefront of microLED technology for augmented reality (AR) display applications. Drawing on over a decade of semiconductor and optoelectronics expertise, we have developed a unique and proprietary GaN-on-Silicon platform to manufacture innovative microLED displays.

At our world-class manufacturing and innovation centre in Plymouth, we operate leading-edge wafer processing facilities to undertake the design, test, and assembly of products and a comprehensive suite of photonic characterisation and applications laboratories.

We are in an exciting phase of our development journey and are now closely partnering with Meta, who are developing new technologies to help connect and bring people together. Our mission is to help bring their vision of the next lightweight and stylish AR glasses to life.

The people and skills within Plessey are key to driving forward the development of our technology, and we are continually looking for passionate, motivated, and experienced professionals to join our growing team!

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