Job Title: Process Engineer V

Duration: 2 years

Location: Redmond, WA

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Optics, Mechanical and Materials Engineers to manage the development of processes and equipment for implementation into a product.
• Design and develop equipment for automated Active Alignment in US lab.
• Design and execute efforts to validate existing processes for the production of quality and conforming parts.
• Lead the production of parts using developed processes on a schedule with tight timelines, with a focus on design for manufacturability.
• Specify and operate analytical equipment used in process development.
• Identify and solve blocking issues for designers and engineers, maximizing their efficiency by ensuring they have the manufacturing tools and information they need.
• Perform failures analysis on non-conforming data to determine root cause and drive a plan to improve.
• Support some builds at factories to understand challenges in factory to implement in equipment/process designs.
• Bring up laboratory for prototyping in US labs.

Skills:

• Automated equipment design, FAT/SAT and troubleshooting.
• Optical instrumentation familiarity and basic knowledge of measurement techniques.
• Ability to track and organize documentation, experiment results, standard operating procedures (SOPs), work-in-progress (WIP) logs.
• Experience scaling processes from research to pilot-production or mass manufacture, and implementing quality control procedures to resolve processing problems.

Must-Have Skills:

• Testing hardware, working hands on different equipment and unafraid to use new equipment.
• Ability to design and implement process development plans, design of experiments (DOE), establishing critical process parameters and quality control strategies.
• Curiosity in optics and be creative and look for a different approach.

Nice-to-have Skills:

• Analysis automation, modifying with automation tools so they can streamline their work.
• Experience in augmented reality or virtual reality.