Systems Engineer 5

The group you’ll be a part of

The Office of the CTO is where innovation takes center stage. We inspire our global technical community to take on grand challenges, understand emerging trends, identify the critical inflections, and drive our sustainability, Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices that will define the next generation of semiconductors and continued impact.

The impact you’ll make

Searching for talented and motivated individuals to join the Global Velocity Lab Engineering team at Lam Research.  This is a small concept and feasibility (C&F) group of mixed disciplines focused on evaluating and advancing industry disrupting technology to enhance Lam's product portfolio in the next 3-5yrs.  Candidates who learn quickly, exhibit strong initiative, innovation, agility, analytical skills, and logical problem solving will excel as a part of this team.    

What you’ll do

• Develop framework for future product requirements during C&F development
• Collect feedback from technical owner, process, and engineering to quantify requirements and document learning as C&F progresses
• Engage key stakeholders effectively with clear communication of objectives, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions
• Define interfaces and processes for complex technical platforms, system specifications, signal inputs/outputs, and working parameters for hardware and/or software compatibility
• Work closely with software and controls experts to create system control architecture
• Identify, analyze and resolve system design weaknesses
• Establish a format and methodology to document and maintain C&F module configurations and key parameters through C&F testing (system fingerprint)
• Experience in developing and conducting test plans, design of experiments, troubleshooting, and creating theory of operations
• Utilize system documentation (component/assy specs, drawings, P&IDs, interconnect diagrams, BOMs, etc) to troubleshoot issues and/or retrofit/modify/integrate sub systems for C&F testing as required
• Define, document and communicate installation and operating procedures to engineers with variety of technical backgrounds
• Create test plans and work with team to validate new hardware or system design against hardware specifications or expected behavior
• Present data and results in design, program, and executive reviews
• Partner with technical owner to establish and document program C&F exit criteria
• Transfer requirements and learning/knowledge to product groups during transition to product alpha phase
• Hardware/lab-centric on-site flex position. Expect an average of 3 days/wk on site/in-lab with opportunity to work up to 2 days/wk remotely with manager approval as project deliverables allow. Lam aims to provide remote work flexibility to the extent possible, but a significant portion of this role will require on-site in-lab presence.

Who we’re looking for

• BS, MS, or PhD degree in Systems, Electrical, Mechanical engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience
• Very good oral and written communication skills in English
• Self-motivated individual with hands-on laboratory experience and can-do attitude
• Experience in best-practices in troubleshooting and root cause analysis to resolve problems with design features and devices
• Experienced with Microsoft Office Applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Project), MS Teams, and Sharepoint
• Understanding of system-level operation including controls, sensors, and interlocks
• Strong team player who enjoys working with motivated coworkers in fast-paced environment
• Be flexible to change in a dynamic and continuous learning environment

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with instrument control and data acquisition tools/scripting languages like LabView, MATLAB, Python, VB.NET, etc. preferred
• Etch and Deposition hardware experience preferred
• RF plasma experience preferred

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.