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About The Position

Requirements

• Demonstrated understanding of precision instruments and control systems; experience with semiconductor inspection or metrology tools is a plus.
• Hands‑on experience troubleshooting complex electromechanical or optical systems; exposure to DOE or data‑driven troubleshooting prferred.
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal, and analytical skills to support technical documentation and cross‑team collaboration.
• Familiarity with cleanroom operations, wafer handling concepts, and equipment safety practices.
• Ability to work on problems of moderate scope using established processes while building capability to address more complex issues.
• Up to 15% travel for training and global customer support.
• Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years

Responsibilities

• Serve as the engineering tool owner for assigned wafer inspection tools, ensuring availability, readiness, and stable performance for engineering and demo activities.
• Monitor tool health, uptime, and performance; identify issues and drive timely resolution with multi‑functional teams to enhance reliability and usability.
• Implement and support calibration, specification validation, and preventive maintenance activities, verifying tool capability after configuration or maintenance changes.
• Resolve tool issues using structured root‑cause analysis across software, hardware, optics, motion control, and wafer handling subsystems, with senior guidance as needed.
• Support customer demos in partnership with Applications Engineers by preparing tools and supporting execution, ensuring demo requirements are met.
• Ensure proper care, custody, and traceability of customer wafers by following established handling and special‑consideration procedures to protect wafer integrity.
• Document investigations, test results, and lessons learned to enable knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Provide on‑call or off‑hours support during critical activities; work in an ISO Class 5 cleanroom and collaborate with team members to maintain 5S standards.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life, and other voluntary benefits
• 401(K) including company matching
• employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
• student debt assistance
• tuition reimbursement program
• development and career growth opportunities and programs
• financial planning benefits
• wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP)
• paid time off and paid company holidays
• family care and bonding leave