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Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 6 hours ago

Equipment Engineer, AWS Center for Quantum Computing – Fabrication

Pasadena, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$106K/yr - $185K/yr

5+ years exp

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an Equipment Engineer for their Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA. The role involves maintaining and troubleshooting complex semiconductor fabrication and characterization equipment to ensure optimal performance and up-time, while working collaboratively with scientists and engineers to support quantum computing research and development.

Agentic AIConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

An Equipment Engineer troubleshoots problems related to equipment and other lab infrastructure, then devises and documents the solutions such that the problems can be more easily solved the next time they occur

When necessary, the Equipment Engineer works with field service engineers from the company that manufactured the equipment, scheduling service calls and supervising & documenting those engineers' work in our labs

The Equipment Engineer is responsible for improving the up-time of equipment, which involves developing better preventative maintenance (PM) plans, executing the PMs, performing equipment calibrations, owning equipment health initiatives, implementing new equipment-tracking initiatives in our manufacturing execution system (MES), and obsessing over the details of the equipment such that it can operate at peak performance

The Equipment Engineer may assist with the development and/or implementation of hardware modifications and new lab upgrades

The Equipment Engineer has ownership of equipment and lab spaces and is responsible for the reliable, excellent performance of our labs and everything that operates within it

The Equipment Engineer performs a daily morning lab walkthrough to assess the state of their assigned lab areas and equipment

Based on priorities set by the team, the engineer works on solving new problems or existing problems from the previous day

Preventative maintenance checks and/or calibrations are performed according to a schedule

When time permits and there aren't problems to solve that are limiting team productivity, projects centered around the improvement of equipment and lab spaces are undertaken

In all aspects of the work, documentation of notes, procedures, fixes, and projects is pivotal

Qualification

Manufacturing equipment developmentVacuum systemsHardware lab equipmentSolidWorksPreventative maintenanceAnalytical skillsProblem solvingCommunication skillsOrganizational skills

Required

5+ years of manufacturing equipment development experience, or Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, engineering technology or equivalent

Experience maintaining material handling equipment and integrated systems

Experience in hardware lab equipment such as digital scopes, logic analyzers, and soldering tools

Experience with vacuum, high vacuum, and/or ultra-high vacuum systems, Bonders, flip chip bonders and probers

Preferred

Familiarity with reactive ion etching, thin films, metrology, wet etch photo lithography, back end tools and principles

Knowledge of SolidWorks (or similar) design tools

Good problem solving, analytical, writing and communication skills

Curiosity and capability to rapidly research and learn new tools, techniques and technical topics

Self-starter with excellent organizational skills

Benefits

Equity

Sign-on payments

Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.

Founded in 2002

Seattle, Washington, USA

10001+ employees