Equipment Engineer, Cleans

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain clean tool equipment performance, including uptime, reliability, and process stability.
• Monitor equipment health and respond to tool alarms, excursions, and performance deviations.
• Troubleshoot equipment-related issues and lead root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Support installation, qualifications, and acceptance testing of new clean equipment and upgrades.
• Develop and optimize preventive maintenance (PM) and calibration strategies to improve MTBF and MTTR.
• Analyze equipment and process data (SPC, tool metrics) to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Process Engineering to improve yield, defect reduction, and process capability.
• Coordinate with vendors to resolve equipment performance issues and support technology transfers.
• Develop and maintain equipment documentation, SOPs, and work instructions.
• Ensure compliance with cleanroom, safety, and environmental (EHS) standards.
• Participate in audits, continuous improvement initiatives, and training of technicians.
• Train and support technicians and junior engineers as needed.

Qualifications

• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Semiconductor manufacturing flow and cleanroom operations.
• Equipment systems: mechanical, electrical, vacuum, chemical delivery, fluid handling.
• Cleaning technologies (wet clean, chemical, megasonic, plasma preferred).
• Equipment performance metrics (uptime, MTBF, MTTR, defectivity).
• SPC, data analysis, and statistical problem-solving methods.

• Experience:
• 5-7 years of hands-on experience in semiconductor manufacturing, photolithography, photomask engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in semiconductor, photomask, or advanced microfabrication manufacturing, with direct experience in photolithography or patterning processes.
• Hands-on experience with clean, wet process, or lithography-related equipment.
• Background in supporting tool installation, qualification, and upgrades.
• Familiarity with troubleshooting methodologies and equipment optimization between PM cycles.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Chemical Engineering, or related field.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual bonus program.
• Equity compensation eligibility.
• Full suite of health and welfare benefits.
• 401k with company match.