Systems Engineer 5

Lam Research•Fremont, CA

19h•$141,000 - $307,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Office of the CTO is where innovation takes center stage. We inspire our global technical community to take on grand challenges, understand emerging trends, identify the critical inflections, and drive our sustainability, Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices that will define the next generation of semiconductors and continued impact. Searching for talented and motivated individuals to join the Global Velocity Lab Engineering team at Lam Research. This is a small concept and feasibility (C&F) group of mixed disciplines focused on evaluating and advancing industry disrupting technology to enhance Lam's product portfolio in the next 3-5yrs. Candidates who learn quickly, exhibit strong initiative, innovation, agility, analytical skills, and logical problem solving will excel as a part of this team.

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD degree in Systems, Electrical, Mechanical engineering or equivalent
Minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience
Very good oral and written communication skills in English
Self-motivated individual with hands-on laboratory experience and can-do attitude
Experience in best-practices in troubleshooting and root cause analysis to resolve problems with design features and devices
Experienced with Microsoft Office Applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Project), MS Teams, and Sharepoint
Understanding of system-level operation including controls, sensors, and interlocks
Strong team player who enjoys working with motivated coworkers in fast-paced environment
Be flexible to change in a dynamic and continuous learning environment

Nice To Haves

Experience with instrument control and data acquisition tools/scripting languages like LabView, MATLAB, Python, VB.NET, etc. preferred
Etch and Deposition hardware experience preferred
RF plasma experience preferred

Responsibilities

Develop framework for future product requirements during C&F development
Collect feedback from technical owner, process, and engineering to quantify requirements and document learning as C&F progresses
Engage key stakeholders effectively with clear communication of objectives, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions
Define interfaces and processes for complex technical platforms, system specifications, signal inputs/outputs, and working parameters for hardware and/or software compatibility
Work closely with software and controls experts to create system control architecture
Identify, analyze and resolve system design weaknesses
Establish a format and methodology to document and maintain C&F module configurations and key parameters through C&F testing (system fingerprint)
Experience in developing and conducting test plans, design of experiments, troubleshooting, and creating theory of operations
Utilize system documentation (component/assy specs, drawings, P&IDs, interconnect diagrams, BOMs, etc) to troubleshoot issues and/or retrofit/modify/integrate sub systems for C&F testing as required
Define, document and communicate installation and operating procedures to engineers with variety of technical backgrounds
Create test plans and work with team to validate new hardware or system design against hardware specifications or expected behavior
Present data and results in design, program, and executive reviews
Partner with technical owner to establish and document program C&F exit criteria
Transfer requirements and learning/knowledge to product groups during transition to product alpha phase