Regional Product Support Engineer 4

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

Providing technical support to field engineers, technicians, and customer support personnel who are diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing and debugging complex electro/mechanical equipment, computer systems, complex software.
Responds to situations where first-line product support has failed to isolate or fix problems in malfunctioning equipment or software.
Reports design, reliability and maintenance problems or bugs to design engineering / software engineering.
May be involved in direct onsite support, customer installation and training.
Provides support to customer / users where the product is highly technical or sophisticated in nature.

What You’ll Do

Analyze provided data, generate Action Plans / Fishbones / perform FMEA Analysis. Provide detailed technical guidance / action plans and guide the first-line support in resolving the problem.
Perform reporting on downtimes, analyze product performance data to uncover potential issues and areas for improvement.
Develop comprehensive documentation to aid first line support / customers in troubleshooting.
Contribute to product designs and development, ensuring customer needs are met.

Who We’re Looking For

• PhD with 3+ years of relevant work experience or; MS or Engineering degree with 6+ years of work experience; or BS with 8+ years of work experience.
• Understand and work from electrical and mechanical schematics, diagrams and interpret operation manuals.
• Use computer applications, including data analysis tools, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software.
• Formulate root cause hypothesis, analysis and action plans with detail problem statements, data analysis and success criteria.
• Provide quality remote and on-site escalation support and escalation management.
• Troubleshoot technical problems and coordinate multiple technical tasks.
• Work directly with customers to meet their needs and expectations with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers and customer and adhere to customer rules and policies regarding worksite behavior and safety with minimal supervision.
• Able to work in constrictive clean room environment, wearing appropriate personal protective safety equipment as required, and sit or stand for prolonged periods of time in a demanding environment with changing workloads.
• Work flexible shifts and on-call including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Be available for constant communication with the field through either meeting, instant messenger, text, email, etc.
• Able to travel both domestic and international based on business need.

Preferred Qualifications

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• Strong knowledge of Plasma Etch Equipment, it’s technical background and system design.
• Experience with troubleshooting Electronics, RF Circuitry, Gas Delivery and UHV Systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues fast and logical following standard procedures.
  Superb communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues in simple terms.
• Familiar with the SW structure and the ability to troubleshoot from the Control Works level.
• Acquainted with Analog-to-Digital I/O devices IOC, SIOC, EIOC, and how they interact with the Tool Platform SW Package.
• Knowledge of the directory structure, and the ability to troubleshoot the structure.
• Communicate with customer at a technical level and influence customer decision to follow action plans.

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.