Eng Product Support Snr

JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Product Support Engineer

Want to discover just how far your intellectual curiosity can take you? You're in the right place. For more than four decades, Axcelis Technologies has been at the forefront of innovation in semiconductor manufacturing technology. Chip makers around the globe rely on our tools and process expertise to deliver the semiconductors that power modern life from smartphones and computers to cameras and cars.

We have become a technology leader by providing the innovation necessary for business to thrive, quality of life to advance, and the environment to flourish-enabling a truly sustainable future.

Our influence is global, with more than 30 offices worldwide, an installed base of thousands worldwide and a customer list that includes the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers. Our team is expanding, and we are currently hiring a Senior Product Support Engineer for our Beverly, MA corporate office. This person will provide high level technical support to field service by phone, e-mail or travel to customer site by performing the duties listed below.

Responsibilities:

* Provide system-level electro/mechanical expertise to field service personnel and customers for troubleshooting design or field-based critical equipment problems and providing on-site support for new product installs, machine down, upgrades and retro-fits. Communicate by phone, email and travel.

* Initiate continuous Improvement Programs or resolution of acute customer issues. Perform root cause analysis using industry standard Six Sigma processes such as 8D, DOE, and FEMA. 16.

* Manage cross functional teams and large projects with limited oversight. Report status and updates to management as required.

* Enhance our field and customer relationships. Visit customer sites on periodic basis to better understand equipment/preventative maintenance issues. Share data and Best-known practices, and establish Fab SPC baselines.

* Prepare presentations at the engineering level to support system upgrades, support plans, technical demonstrations.

* Provide for a contact point within the factory for FSE(s), account teams, and/or customers to call upon.

* Use the available equipment diagnostic tools and data, identify equipment issues using the application resources available. Performance Dose Dat. Wafer Map diagnostic; beam profile collection and interpretation; ashrate and non-uniformity; particle data; etc.

* Provide factory support for engineering projects and reliability marathons; support manufacturing to help resolve customer-reported issues.

* Manage and document escalations through Insight. Follow up with the appropriate functional group to ensure timely closure on open technical issues whether hardware, software, after-market, etc.

* Produce troubleshooting matrices that enable field service engineers to follow a systematic approach to localizing and resolving a common problem.

* Work with field service and our reliability-engineering group, provide customer data (MTBF, MTTR) for factory continuous improvement, quality assurance, warranty reduction, and other factory programs.

* Mentor field service and support engineers in operation and troubleshooting of complicated system level electronic and mechanical problems.

* Mange internal product support resources at a site or internally to address customer and tool issues reported.

* Provide coaching and leadership to those engineers who require further mentoring in specific areas. (Preventative Maintenance practices and schedules, particle reduction, source life end station set-up, software troubleshooting, beam and recipe optimization, basic application skills).

* Develop and assist Junior PSE's with Product Support Bulletins and Best Known Practices to notify the field of problems and temporary work arounds.

* Document troubleshooting and problem resolution steps as solutions for the knowledgebase.

* Write technical bulletins, procedures, and best methods documents using first-hand knowledge and techniques and theory gathered from peers (support, service, and design engineers).

* Provide assistance and hands-on training toward the development of Field…