Manufacturing Equipment Engineer 2

Illumina•San Diego, CA

About The Position

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. Step into a role where your expertise keeps innovation moving. As an Equipment Engineer II on Illumina’s Metrology team, you’ll be at the heart of Flow Cell Manufacturing—owning and maintaining critical equipment, ensuring smooth operations, and driving the introduction and scale-up of new products and technologies. This is a chance to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment that supports multiple cutting-edge processes, helping Illumina deliver its complex product pipeline reliably and sustainably. If you’re passionate about precision, problem-solving, and making an impact in genomics, this is where your skills will shape the future.

Requirements

Advanced electronics trouble-shooting including reading of schematics
Ability to learn and understand component level failures in large instruments
Computer trouble-shooting and repair (preferred experience with Microsoft Windows)
Ability to communicate and document equipment issues
Ability to learn new tasks quickly
Demonstrated continuous improved performance of instruments and ability to communicate these improvements to process and R&D engineers
Optimistic when faced with setbacks
Demonstrated experience with hands on design and troubleshooting needs to be clearly demonstrated for these candidates
Experience with Semiconductor equipment and Fab best practices
Excellent familiarity with standard laboratory practices
High level of familiarity with lasers, laser-optics, electro-optics, electronics or related technical field required
Experience sourcing instrument components from non-OEM suppliers
Knowledge and skills typically acquired through previous positions in fast-paced corporate environments which involved responsibility for similar work
Travel up to 10%

Nice To Haves

GMP experience is a HUGE plus
Experience with PLC

Responsibilities

Learn and understand new instruments and create a maintenance programs to provide continually improving equipment availability
Work with engineers to develop and implement procedures to reduce or eliminate sources of systematic equipment failures
Install new equipment and work with facilities on associated prep
Participate in tool down select (especially around tool automation), work with vendors during equipment design phase, and improve support for manufacturing instruments
Data-mining large datasets to uncover sources of systematic error
Understand basic internal instrument communication (RS232, PLC, IO)
Create innovative solutions to technical problems
Perform basic computer repair functions
Work with lasers and laser alignment
Able to learn or execute basic scripting and data analysis