Sustaining Engineer

A Day in Your Life at MKS:

As a Sustaining Engineer, you perform product engineering functions on high power RF and DC generators used in semiconductor fabrication. Use skills and experience to implement design changes that ensure products of the highest quality. Create, analyze and validate new design or theoretical concepts for obsolescence or derivative. Works with cross-functional teams, including hardware developers and system engineers. Interacts with customers both internal and external.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Sustain and improve high power RF generators rated 400KHz to 60MHz up to 100kW
• Perform analysis to determine root cause of failure on production yield fall-out and customer returns. Provide corrective action, recommendations, and document analysis results
• Plan and conduct RF testing, DC testing, HASS/HALT, circuit analysis, troubleshooting, modeling, failure duplication and device analysis
• Provide technical support to application engineers and help to solve difficult on-site engineering problems; act as Customer/Sales interface to Asia customers within the Engineering organization
• Work on second source component qualification. Interface with suppliers, customers, manufacturing and materials organizations
• Provide training to other teams within the organization including Application, Manufacturing and Test Engineering to improve overall capabilities and knowledge
• Work in Penang Malaysia factory; Sustaining Engineering Team reports to US Engineering
• Support US New Product Development Engineering and Technical Operations in product release activities. (incl. test fixture design, test procedures, assembly fixture design)
• Support design documentation & configuration control of released products. (Special Product Requests, Engineering Change Orders)

Required Skills:

• B.S. in Electronic Engineering or other technical related field
• 5+ years of related experience
• Strong curiosity and interests to understand the root cause of failure and RF/DC technology
• Ability to build circuit prototype, develop test method/fixture, troubleshoot electronics circuit with lab equipment
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Ability to work independently under minimum supervision
• Occasional domestic and international business travel

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. in Power Electronics related field of study
• Experience and strong technical background in high power RF or power electronics
• Proficient with electronics circuit simulation or programming language, preferably LTSpice, SimSmith, Octive, Python, Visual Basic

Globally, our policy is to recruit individuals from wide and diverse backgrounds. However, certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to various export control regulations. Applicants for these positions may be limited (by, for example, their countries of citizenship, country of origin, or immigration status) where required by law or governmental contact, and/or employment made contingent upon the issuance of appropriate governmental licensing.

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