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Principal Equipment Engineer (Multiple Positions) #1599

USA-Arizona💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-06 → 2026-09-26

Core

Retrofit component and parameter settings to improve tool performance and availability for diffusion, thin film, lithography, or etching equipment in a semiconductor fab; install and qualify new tool sets to add capacity.

Role type

Principal Equipment Engineer (Semiconductor Manufacturing)

Builds

Semiconductor chips using leading-edge process technology (N4, N3, N2, 2nm)

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing / Equipment engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Semiconductor manufacturing principles and techniques, Hardware control systems, Planning and scheduling for tool install construction projects, Mechanical systems knowledge (lithography track robotics, pneumatics, electrical systems), Physics and chemistry principles for lithography processes, Root cause analysis for complex defect and hardware issues, Team leadership

Preferred skills

Experience with Creo 3D CAD, Pro-E, AutoCAD, MATLAB, COMSOL, or Solidworks

Technologies

Creo 3D CAD, Pro-E, AutoCAD, MATLAB, COMSOL, Solidworks

Responsibilities

Solve critical equipment issues to improve tool uptime and utilization efficiency; Implement best known methods in hardware to control tool performance; Identify opportunities for hardware capability enhancement to drive defect reduction; Communicate with cross-function engineers, vendors, facilities, and manufacturing shift personnel

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship

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