Equipment Engineer

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Job Description:

Equipment Maintenance Engineer

Second Shift (Monday thru Friday, 3pm to 11pm or similar)

Broadcom – Lehigh Valley, PA 

Description

Located in Breinigsville, PA, our high-volume, 24/7 manufacturing facility fabricates semiconductor devices that enable fiber optic communication and datacenter expansion.  As an Equipment Engineer with Broadcom's Optical Systems Division (OSD), you will work with an operations team to source, install, improve, and sustain wafer fab equipment and infrastructure. This includes photolithography, epitaxy, dry etch, wet etch, and thin-film deposition for indium phosphide laser and detector device manufacturing.  You will be responsible for equipment used to develop advanced processes in our wafer fabrication facility.  You will team with Technology Development, Process Engineering and Production Operations teams to achieve this objective.  The team will be challenged by new materials, applications and device architectures.  You will be responsible for establishing robust equipment and processes through rigorous characterization and statistical validation before ramping them into high-volume manufacturing. 

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in identifying, evaluating, installing, improving, and maintaining equipment.

• Select, accept, and start up new equipment; optimize hardware and software; confer with equipment vendors and manufacturing engineers at Broadcom.

• Upgrade existing equipment and provide qualification support.

• Develop and implement preventative, predictive, and high-precision maintenance procedures.  Implementation includes documenting procedures, as well as training and certifying personnel.

• Lead/take ownership of projects to develop/qualify new processes and tools.  Complete projects on time and within budget.

• Work with peers and process engineering/maintenance teams to establish project objectives, schedules, and resource profiles for projects. Organize and manage longer-term improvement projects to meet organizational goals.

• Collaborate with Process Engineering, Equipment Maintenance, and Manufacturing Operations to achieve robust performance in support of yield, quality, cost and productivity goals; report and take ownership of related projects and metrics.

• Implement robust monitoring methodologies enabling early detection of excursions in equipment performance before product is impacted (e.g. SPC, FDC, baselining, and matching).

• Active member of the Hazmat and Medical Emergency Response Team.  Maintain a working knowledge of safety policies and regulations to ensure that duties of self and others are performed in a safe manner.  Work with safety teams to drive continuous improvement. 

Job Qualifications and Skills

• BS in ME, EE, or related field and 5 years of related experience in equipment support or Master’s degree and 3 years of related experience.

• Experience with fab equipment – vacuum, RF, robotics, and high purity gas systems – is highly preferred.

• Equipment experience in a compound semiconductor manufacturing environment or MEMs fab is preferred.

• Detail-oriented with strong fundamentals in core equipment engineering functions.

• Excellent diagnostic and troubleshooting skills for process/equipment interactions.

• Practical experience applying structured problem solving methods.

• Working knowledge and practical experience with SPC, DOE, and statistical hypothesis testing.

• Mature data-analysis skills using tools such as JMP, Minitab, and Excel/Access.

• Excellent verbal and written skills.  Commitment to effective communication.

• Initiative to address and appropriately escalate problems to achieve rapid resolution.

• Candidates with practical experience in Fault Detection & Classification (FDC) systems, High Precision Maintenance (HPM), TPS, and Lean Manufacturing will be considered preferentially.

• Basic understanding of device micro-fabrication techniques is highly desirable.

• Legal authorization to work in the US.

About Broadcom Inc. and the Breinigsville Facility:

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial.

The Breinigsville, PA, manufacturing location was created by AT&T in the late 1980s as Bell Laboratories’ world headquarters for optoelectronics.  Through a series of acquisitions, this facility is now an integral part of Broadcom’s Optical Systems Division, manufacturing indium phosphide lasers and detectors that support telecommunications and datacenter customers throughout the world. Located in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania just outside of Allentown, our high-volume, 24/7 manufacturing facility fabricates devices that enable fiber optic communication and datacenter expansion.

Key words:  Wafer Fab, Indium Phosphide, InP, Semiconductor, Laser, Diode, Optical Semiconductor, cleanroom, corrective maintenance, programming, ladder logic, vacuum, leak detection, ultra high vacuum, gas cabinet, robotics, pneumatics, Residual Gas Analyzer, RGA, preventative maintenance, statistical process control, nanotechnology, MOCVD, microelectronics, Lehigh Valley, Allentown, Reading, PA, Pennsylvania

Additional Job Description:

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $71,000 - $113,000.

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.

Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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Salary : $71,000 - $113,000