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Illumina · 1 day ago

Manufacturing Equipment/Process Engineer 2

San Diego, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$82K/yr - $124K/yr

3+ years exp

Illumina is a company focused on expanding access to genomic technology to enhance health equity globally. The Manufacturing Equipment/Process Engineer 2 will be responsible for maintaining critical equipment, ensuring smooth operations, and supporting the introduction and scale-up of new products and technologies in Flow Cell Manufacturing.

BiotechnologyGeneticsHealth CareMedical

No H1B

Responsibilities

Learn and understand new instruments and create a maintenance programs to provide continually improving equipment availability

Work with engineers to develop and implement procedures to reduce or eliminate sources of systematic equipment failures

Install new equipment and work with facilities on associated prep

Participate in tool down select (especially around tool automation), work with vendors during equipment design phase, and improve support for manufacturing instruments

Data-mining large datasets to uncover sources of systematic error

Understand basic internal instrument communication (RS232, PLC, IO)

Create innovative solutions to technical problems

Perform basic computer repair functions

Work with lasers and laser alignment

Able to learn or execute basic scripting and data analysis

Qualification

Advanced electronics troubleshootingSemiconductor equipmentData analysis proficiencyHands-on experience with opticsPLC systemsCommunicate issuesLearn quicklyLaboratory practicesGMP experience

Required

Advanced electronics trouble-shooting including reading of schematics

High level of familiarity with lasers, laser-optics, electro-optics, electronics or related technical field required

Perform investigations

Ability to learn and understand component level failures in large instruments

Ability to communicate and document equipment issues

Ability to learn new tasks quickly

Demonstrated continuous improved performance of instruments and ability to communicate these improvements to process and R&D engineers

Demonstrated experience with hands on design and troubleshooting needs to be clearly demonstrated for these candidates

Experience with Semiconductor equipment and Fab best practices

Excellent familiarity with standard laboratory practices

Experience sourcing instrument components from non-OEM suppliers

Knowledge and skills typically acquired through previous positions in fast-paced corporate environments which involved responsibility for similar work

Travel up to 10%

Bachelor's degree with 3–5 years of related experience, or equivalent work experience

Hands-on experience with optics and camera systems

Proficiency in data analysis using tools such as JMP

Strong expertise in evaluating and ensuring precision of metrology equipment and measurement systems