Electrical Engineer, Sr.

Instructions

Lam Research is a leading global manufacturer of capital equipment used in making leading-edge-semiconductors across the world. We primarily compete in four specific areas – deposition, etch, photoresist strip, and single wafer clean. Lam Research India team is organized into three major areas of responsibility: Hardware, Software, and Operations. We have an open position in the Hardware group. The Hardware group, designs subassemblies and subsystems for Lam’s product lines, providing innovation for the next-generation products, providing improvements in cost and reliability. In Hardware group, mechanical engineers, simulation analysts, electrical engineers, manufacturing engineers, and supplier quality engineers contribute to designing and improving Lam’s products.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for executing Electrical Engineering technical disciplines with primary focus on designing and modifying schematic and PCB layout.
• Board Design, Electronics Circuits including microcontroller/FPGA based designs, sensor interfaces, analog signal conditioning circuits, power supplies, ethernet based communication interfaces, Wireless Interfaces, Wireless Chargers, mechatrolink protocol,etc.
• Designs and develops basic embedded Programming to bring up PCB prototypes.
• Work with cross-disciplinary teams (including mechanical, electro-mechanical, software, process, manufacturing engineers) for major projects with multi-national work environment.
• Creating electrical schematics and PCB layouts based on requirements received from cross-disciplinary teams
• Creating and releasing engineering drawings & bill of materials using Engineering Change Management process
• Interacting with PG counterpart in US
• Studying and recommending corrective solutions for technical issues of varying complexities.
• Conducting Design review to get buy-in from all cross functional teams
• Managing in a very dynamic and fast paced work environment with frequent updates, design packages with quick solutions etc.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Electrical/Electronics Engineering with 2-4 years of relevant experience in PCB design & testing, basics of Embedded Systems. MTech is an added advantage.
• Core PCB Design Expertise with OrCAD Allegro (version 17.4 or higher) – designed complex boards 6 - 8 layers with SMD’s(Surface Mount Device), BGA’s(Ball Grid Array), through hole parts, placement, routing, setting up constraints, working with component library teams for PCB footprint
• Performing Schematic Entry in OrCAD Design Entry and circuit understanding with op-amps, comparators, passive devices, sensor circuitry, semiconductors IC’s – microcontrollers/FPGA, power supplies (DC-DC Converters)
• Working alongside EE, ME for planning the board, DFT philosophy, working with PCB vendors for design for manufacturability (DFM), mechanical packaging constraints and PCB stack-up
• Coding fundamentals in C or other embedded languages.
• Ability to write test plans for PCB testing and ability to perform low level IO testing on sub-controller and devices, debugging board failures/issues 
• Fundamental knowledge of serial communication (SPI, I2C, UART)
• Design and perform unit test of functionalities.
• Able to work and establish best practices with PCB supplier who is responsible to build/test boards and with Supplier Quality who is responsible for test fixture development. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of different standards and compliances like –  IPC, SEMI Standard (Electrical) S2, S8, S22 etc.
• Understanding of manufacturing operations, how the remote factory supply chain work, general knowledge of BOM structuring is a value addition.
• Ability to understand and debug H/W, S/W Controls issues, Data Gathering, Analysis, Preparing Test Reports
• Performing RCCA, Investigations, identifying potential issues arising out of updates made to boards/change in manufacturing process & materials.
• Electrical troubleshooting - PCBs, sensors, power supplies, communication interfaces including Wireless Connections etc.
• Able to repeat the test required and performed during Pilot run. Using signal list, system interconnect diagram, interlock table, PCB files, assembly drawings etc.to isolate issues

Our Commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.