R&D Mechanical Design Engineer

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design and develop high-precision semiconductor equipment to meet the processing and automation needs of customers. To succeed in this position, you need to:

• Understand the design specification given to you by the design lead.

• Understand the company’s design standards and best practices.

• Understand the constraints within which your design must work.

• Understand geometric tolerances and dimensional analyses.

• Choose components based on an understanding of function, reliability, and costs.

• Choose materials based on an understanding of materials science and engineering.

• Understand design for manufacturability/assembly.

• Work with the Electrical Engineer to choose drives and electrical components (if any).

• Discuss with the Software Engineer on any interlocking logic requirements.

• Lay the design concept down in the 3D CAD.

• Perform DFMEA during the design process.

• Submit the CAD module to the system integrator to check for interface issues.

• Review the design with the design lead.

• Put the part designs down on drawings, carefully specifying tolerances and specifications.

• Build the module BOM.

• Procure the module components.

• Review the assembly of the physical module.

• Perform design improvements where appropriate.
  

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• BE/BS Mechanical Engineering.

• 0-3 years experience in designing and developing automated equipment.

• 3D solid modeling, preferably Creo (others like Solidworks, NX are also acceptable).

• Electro-mechanical module conceptualization and design.

• Pneumatic/fluid circuit design.

• Detail fabrication drawings, assembly drawings and layout drawings.

• Selection and sizing of standard components available off the shelf.

Preferred experience

• Ultra high-precision machine design.

• High-speed pick and place mechanism design.

• Structural, kinematics and dynamic analyses and FEA simulations.

• Geometrical tolerancing and dimensional analyses.

• Engineering material selection.

• Manufacturing process selection.

• Application of analysis tools like FMEA, DOE.