Manufacturing Engineer NPI

Job Description

Manufacturing Engineer role supports New Product Introduction (NPI) from early design concept through production readiness for complex semiconductor capital equipment. You will work closely with design engineering, quality, supply chain, and operations teams to ensure new products meet manufacturing, quality, reliability, and service readiness requirements before release to production. The position offers the opportunity to influence how high‑value semiconductor tools are designed, built, validated, and transitioned into production and customer environments.

As an individual contributor, you will own manufacturing readiness for assigned tool modules or NPI programs and apply established engineering principles to identify risks, resolve issues, and drive a smooth transition from development into sustained production.

• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) programs from concept, development, and validation through full production readiness.
• Evaluate designs for manufacturability, assembly, integration, test, serviceability, and scalability to ensure efficient and reliable production.
• Identify manufacturing, integration, and supply chain risks and drive mitigation actions prior to design release.
• Translate design intent into production-ready solutions that support assembly, integration, and final test activities.
• Participate actively in concept, preliminary, and detailed design reviews, providing manufacturing engineering input and recommendations.
• Review bills of materials (BOMs), drawings, CAD models, schematics, and system and component-level test plans for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure designs are complete and coordinated across mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and software disciplines before engineering change order (ECO) release.
• Develop manufacturing processes, build flows, work instructions, tooling, fixtures, and inspection strategies to support consistent, high-quality builds.
• Apply Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), and Design for Test (DFT) methodologies to improve product and process robustness.
• Support engineering builds, Factory Acceptance (FA) builds, and production readiness activities on the manufacturing floor.
• Collaborate with suppliers on critical or high-risk fabricated parts and subsystems to ensure manufacturability, quality, and delivery performance.
• Utilize structured problem-solving methods such as DFMEA, Fishbone analysis, 8D, and failure analysis to resolve technical and process issues.
• Document lessons learned from NPI activities and incorporate them into future product and process development to continuously improve execution.
• Work hands-on with large-scale, custom capital equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing, guiding builds from early prototypes through production.
• Support procurement and suppliers by clarifying requirements, addressing manufacturability concerns, and resolving build issues.
• Spend significant time on the manufacturing floor troubleshooting, guiding assembly, and ensuring first-time build success.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with design engineering, quality, supply chain, production, and warehouse teams to transition products to sustaining engineering.
• Balance technical depth with practical execution, ensuring that engineering decisions support real-world manufacturability and serviceability.

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience, including direct support of New Product Introduction (NPI) programs.
• Experience transitioning complex electromechanical or semiconductor equipment into manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated experience supporting NPI from concept through production readiness.
• Ability to evaluate design completeness and manufacturability across mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and software disciplines.
• Experience with tolerance analysis, including Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), interference checks, and structured bills of materials (BOMs).
• Familiarity with manufacturing quality tools and…