Mechanical Technical Lead Engineer

The Group You’ll Be A Part Of

The Customer Support Business Group focuses on enabling our customers with premier customer support throughout their lifecycle with Lam. We drive performance, productivity, safety, and quality of customers installed base performance and deliver service and lifecycle solutions for their most critical equipment and processes.

The Impact You’ll Make

As a Mechanical Engineer at Lam, you're designing and defining cutting-edge mechanical and electro-mechanical systems. Your role involves feasibility studies, testing, and guiding teams in detailed design and fabrication. You provide the crucial design information needed to shape our technology's packaging.

What You’ll Do

• Owning & executing medium-complex Mechanical sub-system projects to design, develop, optimize, & implement design solutions in Lam Products. These projects would be driven as part of NPD, Continuous Improvement Programs (CIP), cost reduction and/or reliability improvement initiatives
• Collaborate with both internal and external CFT to ensure the product design meets its objectives, validate the design through performance testing & obtain approvals by following Product Development & Release (PDR) process
• Conceptualization, modeling, analysis, development, documentation, & test/validation of hardware designs associated with new semiconductor equipment
• Designs parts using metals, ceramics, quartz, plastics, and advanced coatings/plating’s. Work with potential suppliers to ensure parts can be manufactured in accordance with performance and cost objectives
• Ensures documentation is consistent with SEMI, Lam Standards, and other standards as applicable (ANSI, DIN etc.) as well as best known methods (BKMs) accordingly, demonstrates knowledge and ability to properly utilize them
• Performs analytical work in order to characterize and properly specify new and existing designs, including heat transfer, stress and manufacturability
• Develops & execute test plans that generate characterization data sufficient to understand and validate the performance of the design
• Develops & presents reports/presentations of excellent quality that communicate design intent, analysis & validation at design reviews
• Provide immediate response & timely resolution to escalations & design related production issues encountered during the pilot as well as HVM build process

Who We’re Looking For

Mandatory Skills:

• Ability to work well in a matrix organization with aggressive deadlines, ability to align on priorities, etc. while focused to realize end objective
• Application knowledge: hands-on experience on any CAD (NX is preferred) with design, drawing, drawing standards & GD&T
• Hands on experience to take design from concepts (OEM components, sheet metal, metal (machined & weld assembly), plastics & ceramics would be a big plus), detail engineering (Tolerance analysis, DFMEA, 8D problem solving, RCCA, 5-why, DFMA), Test plan, Testing, etc. & through detailed drawing, parts procurement, DFM interaction with suppliers, assembly, test, build verification, filed/customer qualification with deeper understanding of issues faced, lessons learned and closure
• Ability to identify all technical risks and mitigate them through appropriate calculations; structural, strength, etc.
• Accountable for releasing complete engineering drawings & bill of materials per “Engineering Change Management Process” in consistent with “DFMA, DFX (cost, manufacturing at min.) & DFMEA”

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field with minimum of 7+ years of experience
• Excellent communication, both written and verbal, and technical presentation skills
• Highly proficient in 3D CAD tool Siemens NX
• Hands-on experimental and design background coupled with solid engineering skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Semiconductor industry is a plus.
• Experience in project management, managing projects, or problem solving while managing time and multiple priorities.

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.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.