Lead Engineer- Metrology

Lead Engineer - Metrology
About Advanced Energy

Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions for mission‑critical applications and processes. AE’s power solutions enable customer innovation in complex applications for a wide range of industries including semiconductor equipment, industrial manufacturing, telecommunications, data center computing and healthcare. Advanced Energy has devoted four decades to perfecting power for its global customers and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

We operate like an agile, growing, small company – you can see your work make a difference to the company every day. Things move quickly and you can see and feel it. At the same time, we’re a global company founded in 1981 and have been publicly traded for more than 28 years. We have a strong cash position, deep trust and partnership with leading customers, a global best‑in‑class operations capability, and a proven leadership team.

We have a track record and resources to make things happen both organically and inorganically. Being part of a nimble company with a solid foundation attracts team members that are capable, driven and like a challenge. Our employees collaborate and know how to have fun inventing, working, building and winning together. At our core, we are Advanced Energy – powering the future, together.

Advanced Energy, RF Delivery Systems (RFDS) is looking for an experienced and proven Lead Engineer – Metrology for its New Product Development (NPD) team to lead the Metrology Systems used in Plasma Power applications.

The Lead Engineer – Metrology will have responsibility for architecting, validating, and scaling high‑fidelity RF and pulsed DC metrology for factory deployment. You will drive the end‑to‑end lifecycle of metrology solutions: sensor design & selection, calibration strategies, uncertainty modeling, procedures, MSA, SPC integration, and factory‑scale rollout. This role is technical and hands‑on, with significant cross‑functional influence (R&D, RF design, process engineering, manufacturing, and factory automation).

The successful candidate will have technical skills to understand the product and customer requirements and detailed knowledge of the appropriate metrology standards and methods of traceability to apply in each situation. Ability to communicate uncertainty calculations and traceability methods to internal and external stakeholders, including accrediting bodies, is expected. The Lead Engineer – Metrology will be responsible for ensuring test methods and procedures support high levels of integrity while maintaining product manufacturability.

Prior experience in industrial RF power and/or high‑power power supply design is preferred.

• Build rigorous uncertainty budgets (per GUM/JCGM 100) for parameters relevant to complex, high‑power industrial electronics.
• Lead sensor/systems metrology with a cross‑functional team: specify, develop, or qualify sensors (e.g., directional couplers, VI probes, calorimetric power); define de‑embedding and S‑parameter workflows.
• Establish traceability to national standards (e.g., NIST) and design decision rules/guard banding for production dispositions (e.g., ILAC/ISO/IEC 17025 aligned).
• Operationalize metrology for HVM: author SOPs/MOPs, MSA/GR&R plans, SPC hooks, calibration intervals, and lifecycle management for sensors and fixtures.
• Validate robustness under real tool conditions: thermal drift, nonlinearity, electromagnetic coupling, noisy loads, parasitics, and match network dynamics; define tool matching and metrology equivalence criteria.
• Conduct design reviews, coach on uncertainty/statistics, and set technical standards.
• Partner with RF design, applications/process engineering, reliability, and quality to ensure metrology integrity from R&D through HVM.
• Communicate clearly to all stakeholders: quantify metrology risk/impact with KPIs (e.g., GR&R, Cg/Cgk, Cpk, escape rate, uptime/yield/cost impacts).
• Enhance and align metrology programs at relevant business sites.…