Mechanical Engineer

Introduction of the job

ASML US, including its affiliates and subsidiaries, bring together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

Founded in 1984, ASML is the world’s leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or microchips. The mission of the Mechanical Development department is to design and develop the complex mechanics for these machines, which are some of the highest precision products ever produced in the world. This position is based on-site in Wilton, CT, which has both R&D and manufacturing operations. We design and produce multiple sub-system modules that are shipped to our headquarters in Veldhoven, The Netherlands where they are integrated into the full lithography machine.

As a Mechanical Engineerin Wilton, you will specify, design, develop, realize, integrate, and test modules and tools in close collaboration with cross-functional partners and suppliers. You will collaborate with system architects and senior engineers in a multidiscipline project team to develop concepts, perform engineering analysis, build and test prototypes, generate detailed CAD designs and create engineering drawings to deliver within system specifications, cost targets, and project schedules, ensuring timely realization of solutions that contribute to competitive, achievable, and serviceable products. 

You take the lead in developing complex parts of modules and deliver technically complex solutions with full ownership, considering industrialization and cross-team impacts. You collaborate across multiple teams, can lead interfaces with suppliers and other disciplines in less-defined environments, and guide a small group of peers through technical execution.

This position may require access to controlled technology, as defined in the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). As a condition of employment, qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require the Company to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

Roles and responsibilities

• Identify, analyze, document, and manage requirements with traceability, and coordinate verification criteria to confirm deliverables meet intent.

• Conduct research and feasibility studies, document findings, and translate results into recommendations, tradeoffs, and decision inputs.

• Develop engineering concepts and solutions, make technical choices, and resolve issues to meet functionality, performance, cost, safety and compliance needs.

• Define and communicate specifications and high-level designs, align interfaces, and support reviews and approvals to enable quality execution.

• Support system or product integration by coordinating dependencies, applying configuration management, and enabling smooth project execution.

• Define and execute validation and test approaches, improve methods and procedures, and ensure qualification evidence supports release readiness.

• Estimate effort, plan and track work, manage risks and dependencies, and deliver assigned work packages or projects to agreed quality and timelines.

• Maintain accurate technical documentation and follow EHS policies while identifying and mitigating safety risks.

Education & experience

• Minimum BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and 5+ years of relevant experience. 

• MSc or PhD preferred. 

Skills

Technical & functional skills

• Ability to develop engineering concepts and solutions, make sound technical tradeoffs, resolve issues, and realize designs that meet functionality, performance, cost, safety, compliance, and schedule constraints within system/module specifications.

• Ability to plan and execute verification and validation, ensure qualification evidence supports release readiness, and support system/product integration by coordinating dependencies and applying disciplined configuration/traceability to deliver working, testable solutions.

• Capability to interface with multidisciplinary groups including senior leadership.

• High energy self-motivated team player with strong desire to learn.

• Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents.

• Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization, quality, efficiency and professionalism.

• Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy. 

• Proven ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads. 

• Work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision. 

• Work according to a strict set of procedures within the provided timelines. 

Behavioral & leadership skills 

• Drives Results:The ability to translate strategic and technical goals into clear priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes, delivering committed results on time and with the right quality by taking ownership, managing trade-offs, removing obstacles, and sustaining momentum across stakeholders and dependencies. 

• Demonstrates Self-awareness:The ability to understand and manage one’s own strengths, limitations, emotions, and impact on others; to actively seek and use feedback; and to adapt behaviors and decisions to improve collaboration, leadership effectiveness, and results, especially in high-pressure, ambiguous, or complex environments. 

• Values Differences:The ability to intentionally seek, respect, and integrate diverse perspectives and working styles to strengthen collaboration and decision quality, ensuring all voices are heard and treated equitably, and enabling inclusive execution across cross-functional and multicultural stakeholders.

• Possess strong leadership and ownership characteristics with commitment to achieve results on time.

• Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.  

• Demonstrate open, clear, concise and professional communication.

• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers and customer. 

• Result driven and demonstrated ownership and accountability.

• Identify bottlenecks and drive improvements.

Other

• This position is located on-site.  It requires onsite presence to ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation and to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings.

• Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.

• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

• May require travel (domestic and/or international) dependent on business needs up to ~10%.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Additional Responsibilities (as needed in the cleanroom and/or labs):

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves. Working under ISO 9000/14000 standards. 

• The environment in the cleanroom is moderate in temperature with moderate to high noise level.

• Safely working around lasers; on ladders; on platforms; around chemicals; near strong magnetic fields; around high voltage and currents. 

• The employee is occasionally required to move around the campus.