Senior SW Application Development Engineer - Instrumentation and Controls

Axcelis Technologies•Beverly, MA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Want to discover just how far your intellectual curiosity can take you? You’re in the right place. For more than four decades, Axcelis Technologies has been at the forefront of innovation in semiconductor manufacturing technology. Chipmakers around the globe rely on our tools and process expertise to deliver the semiconductors that power modern life from smartphones and computers to cameras and cars. We have become a technology leader by providing the innovation necessary for business to thrive, quality of life to advance, and the environment to flourish—enabling a truly sustainable future. Our influence is global, with more than 30 offices worldwide, an installed base of thousands worldwide and a customer list that includes the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers. Our team is expanding, and we are currently hiring Senior SW Engineers for our Beverly MA location. In this this role the SW engineer will develop software instrumentation and machine control software for Axcelis implanters including the areas of Facilities monitoring and interlocking, hardware interfaces, Vacuum Control, and Realtime system monitoring during the implant process to ensure critical processing constraints are maintained.

Requirements

Experience developing controls for complex electro-mechanical hardware components with distributed IO systems, multi-tiered /multi-platform control architecture required and the ability understand the hardware and physical system being controlled
Strong C/C++ programming skills
Experience developing real-time multi-tasked control using a Real Time Operating System (RTOS)
Experience in area of real-time machine control and instrumentation device interfaces (sensors, actuators, motors, encoders, IO systems) required
Solid experience with high speed real-time data acquisition, manipulation and transfer
Solid mathematical skills and basic understanding of control theory as applied to motion and other physical systems
Practical experience implementing single and multivariate closed loop control for various types of physical systems
Experience with implementation and application of signal processing methods such as peak detection, noise filtering, and linear/non-linear control loop compensation for response optimization
Understanding of implications of HW/SW partitioning as related to system performance and reliability required
Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must
Ability to work in Clean Room environment.

Nice To Haves

Systems experience in Ion beam generation and control
Systems experience in Plasma physics
Vacuum system hardware and control; pumps, gauges, valves
RF and microwave generators
MKS Macro node (or other) Modbus controllers
Ethernet TCP/IP and RS-232 communication interfaces

Responsibilities

Develop production quality real-time machine control SW applications primarily in C/C++
Develop major and minor enhancements as well as bug fixes
Work closely with Product Team including software & hardware engineers, process engineers, scientists and marketing to develop requirements and design definition for software features
Work with Product Support to investigate and resolve field reported issues on released products
Work with Software Quality Group to test on both Implanter Hardware and on Product simulator
This role could include travel to customer sites both foreign and domestic locations