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Amazon · 1 month ago

Equipment Engineer, AWS Center for Quantum Computing – Fabrication

Pasadena, California, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$106K/yr - $185K/yr

5+ years exp

Amazon is seeking an Equipment Engineer for its AWS Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA. The role involves maintaining and improving complex semiconductor fabrication and characterization equipment to ensure optimal performance and up-time, working closely with research scientists and process engineers.

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No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

An Equipment Engineer troubleshoots problems related to equipment and other lab infrastructure, then devises and documents the solutions such that the problems can be more easily solved the next time they occur

When necessary, the Equipment Engineer works with field service engineers from the company that manufactured the equipment, scheduling service calls and supervising & documenting those engineers' work in our labs

The Equipment Engineer is responsible for improving the up-time of equipment, which involves developing better preventative maintenance (PM) plans, executing the PMs, performing equipment calibrations, owning equipment health initiatives, implementing new equipment-tracking initiatives in our manufacturing execution system (MES), and obsessing over the details of the equipment such that it can operate at peak performance

The Equipment Engineer may assist with the development and/or implementation of hardware modifications and new lab upgrades

The Equipment Engineer has ownership of equipment and lab spaces and is responsible for the reliable, excellent performance of our labs and everything that operates within it

The Equipment Engineer performs a daily morning lab walkthrough to assess the state of their assigned lab areas and equipment

Based on priorities set by the team, the engineer works on solving new problems or existing problems from the previous day

Preventative maintenance checks and/or calibrations are performed according to a schedule

When time permits and there aren't problems to solve that are limiting team productivity, projects centered around the improvement of equipment and lab spaces are undertaken

In all aspects of the work, documentation of notes, procedures, fixes, and projects is pivotal

Qualification

Manufacturing equipment developmentVacuum systemsHardware lab equipmentSolidWorksReactive ion etchingAnalytical skillsProblem solvingCommunication skillsOrganizational skills

Required

5+ years of manufacturing equipment development experience, or Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, engineering technology or equivalent

Experience maintaining material handling equipment and integrated systems

Experience in hardware lab equipment such as digital scopes, logic analyzers, and soldering tools

Experience with vacuum, high vacuum, and/or ultra-high vacuum systems, Bonders, flip chip bonders and probers