Systems Engineer IV - (E4)
Applied Materials
- Santa Clara, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Be part of an engineering team to identify the scope, constraints and risks for design, fabrication, testing and volume production of advanced optical components for high performance optical lithography system.
- Use project management skills to lead subsystem and optical assembly projects. Plan, schedule, monitor, and execute projects by leading cross functional teams to meet success criteria.
- Collaborate and communicate with suppliers during design of critical optical sub-assemblies.
- Develop and maintain error budgets and define subsystem level requirements to be characterized and validated during the system alpha testing phase for current and future products.
- Use customer and system requirements to derive design specifications for subsystems, modules, and components and provide input to design engineers throughout the design process.
- Define and execute system test plans for prototype acceptance/qualification test of subsystems, modules, and components.
- Design and execute experiments (DOE) to validate system error budgets, assess and mitigate system performance risks.
- Execute system level experiments for concept and feasibility testing of key roadmap HW & SW features.
- Troubleshoot and root cause complex system level issues in MFG and field.
- Implement new or improved system diagnostics and calibrations. Validate through testing.
- Develop and maintain optical metrology HW and SW to enable automated measurement of key performance metrics of optical assemblies.
- Support system MFG activities and support customer site teams to resolve critical issues during install, qualification, and production use.
- Support escalations pertaining to manufacturing of optical modules and failure analysis of field return modules.
- Write and present technical reports summarizing findings and recommending solutions to technical problems.
- MS or PhD in Optics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and/or related fields.
- 0 - 7 Years of Experience
- Solid theoretical understanding of image formation and ray tracing.
- Hands on experience with designing, assembling, calibrating, and using complex opto-mechanical instrumentation or systems that incorporate light sources, optical sensors, lenses, filters, etc.
- Experience with designing and executing test plans and concept and feasibility studies.
- Strong troubleshooting skills.
- Proficient with data analysis and data visualization techniques.
- Strong programming and/or scripting experience such as Matlab, Python, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with others to successfully achieve desired results in timely manner.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive parallel progress.
- Image processing experience a plus.
- SW automation experience a plus.
- Optical modeling and simulation experience a plus.
- Optical metrology development and qualification experience
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical projects with a multi-disciplinary team to completion.
- Experience with debugging software issues that may have HW or SW related root causes.
- Experience with supporting manufacturing and service organizations through training, documentation (procedures, OMS, BKMs, etc.), and troubleshooting.