Manufacturing Automation & Data Engineer

About the role

Touchdown is engineering the manufacturing behind storage, memory systems, and other chips. This role helps turn a buyer's physical result into a qualified process or a defensible decision to use an existing supplier. Advanced packaging is our intended first fab class; no production fab is operating today.

You will build the software record that lets an operator, engineer, and customer reconstruct how a physical result was made. Begin with a bounded traveler and one product route, then connect equipment, materials, measurements, exceptions, and approvals. The system must preserve human release authority and make missing or conflicting records visible.

Applications are open; the exact work location, arrangement, compensation, and start date will be discussed during hiring. Early work can produce engineering plans and partner comparisons. Hands-on work begins only at qualified, authorized facilities. You will work with process, equipment, quality, test, customer, and supplier owners as the scope requires.

Responsibilities

What you will own:

• Build controlled travelers, product genealogy, recipe/version records, alarms, access controls, and rollback.
• Model workpiece, lot, process step, recipe, equipment, operator, material, and measurement identity.
• Implement controlled travelers, holds, deviations, approvals, and audit trails.
• Connect equipment data and lab results while preserving access control and rollback.
• Define failure behavior for duplicate IDs, missing tool data, late measurements, interrupted steps, and conflicting manual edits.
• Build views that let a qualified reviewer trace a rejected unit back to process conditions and affected sibling lots.

Technical territory:

• Lot and unit identifiers
• Event sourcing
• Recipe versions
• Equipment telemetry
• MES/LIMS interfaces
• SPC feeds
• Access control
• Audit logs
• Data validation
• Offline recovery
• Backups
• Rollback

Representative outputs: