Senior SW Application Development Engineer - Instrumentation and Controls

Responsibilities

• Develop production quality real-time machine control SW applications primarily in C/C++
• Develop major and minor enhancements as well as bug fixes
• Work closely with Product Team including software & hardware engineers, process engineers, scientists and marketing to develop requirements and design definition for software features
• Work with Product Support to investigate and resolve field reported issues on released products
• Work with Software Quality Group to test on both Implanter Hardware and on Product simulator
• This role could include travel to customer sites both foreign and domestic locations

Qualifications

• Experience developing controls for complex electro-mechanical hardware components with distributed IO systems, multi-tiered /multi-platform control architecture required and the ability understand the hardware and physical system being controlled
• Strong C/C++ programming skills
• Experience developing real-time multi-tasked control using a Real Time Operating System (RTOS)
• Experience in area of real-time machine control and instrumentation device interfaces (sensors, actuators, motors, encoders, IO systems) required
• Solid experience with high speed real-time data acquisition, manipulation and transfer
• Solid mathematical skills and basic understanding of control theory as applied to motion and other physical systems
• Practical experience implementing single and multivariate closed loop control for various types of physical systems
• Experience with implementation and application of signal processing methods such as peak detection, noise filtering, and linear/non-linear control loop compensation for response optimization
• Understanding of implications of HW/SW partitioning as related to system performance and reliability required
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must
• Ability to work in Clean Room environment.

Education

• Minimum BS CS or related Engineering degree with experience in software development for electro-mechanical systems. MS or PhD in area of real-time system development desirable.

Experience

• Minimum 8-10 years experience in developing, documenting, and testing of software for Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment or similar complex electro-mechanical equipment.
• Experience with the following, a plus:
• Systems experience in Ion beam generation and control
• Systems experience in Plasma physics
• Vacuum system hardware and control; pumps, gauges, valves
• RF and microwave generators
• MKS Macro node (or other) Modbus controllers
• Ethernet TCP/IP and RS-232 communication interfaces

Pay

U.S. BASE SALARY RANGE: $141,913.76 - $212,870.64