Opto-Mechanical Engineer IV; E4

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry.

The work we do together advances the world’s technology.

Salary:
$ - $

Location:

Portland,OR
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As a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll leverage your strong foundation in physics, mathematics, and materials science to process and resolve mechanical problems, design and implement custom mechanical tooling and associated processes, and enable the handling, assembly, and disassembly of parts, components, sub-assemblies, and final assemblies throughout the product life cycle. You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and modifying mechanical engineering layouts, schematics, and specifications.

You will oversee manufacturing and installation processes, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulations-- and you'll coordinate the procurement and assembly of mechanical components and equipment for design projects, identifying sources of critical parts and subsystems to resolve technical issues.

• Sound material selection judgment, including intuition for thermal expansion behavior and appropriate tolerance ratios.
• Demonstrated ability to design for strength, rigidity, cost and manufacturability against a stated application requirement, and to recognize manufacturability risk in complex designs.
• Hands-on tooling and jig design with a usability bias, suited to repetitive assembly or alignment tasks in volume manufacturing.
• Experience working directly with machine shops.
• Experience with electronics packaging
• Experience with liquid cooling systems, pneumatics and fittings.
• Fluency in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and in statistical as well as worst-case tolerance analysis.
• Experience designing for precision mounting, positioning, pointing and long-term stability of optical components.

• Hands-on proficiency with finite element analysis for structural, thermal, modal or fluid problems, with evidence of correlating models to measured hardware.
• Structural-Thermal-Optical Performance analysis experience — propagating predicted mechanical or thermal deformation into optical performance, for example by fitting deformed surfaces to Zernike terms and returning them to the optical model.

• Working familiarity with wavefront theory.
• Able to operate a commercial interferometer for optical characterization using an existing recipe or procedure, and to distinguish conceptually between interferometer types and their appropriate applications.
• Familiarity with reference flats, spheres and prisms.
• Advanced practical experience adapting common optical measurement tooling: power and energy probes, cameras, profilers, stages and encoders, alignment telescopes and…