Manufacturing Equipment Engineer - Metrology, Semiconductor Operations

Overview

Keysight is a mission-critical design enablement partner for organizations solving the world’s most complex engineering challenges. With deep engineering expertise and leading design, emulation, and test solutions, our ~16,800 employees help customers in over 100 countries accelerate innovation across communications, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, and artificial intelligence markets. Learn more about what we do.

At Keysight, people come together to explore new ideas, challenge what's possible, and advance the technologies defining the future. Here, you'll find opportunities to do your best work, take your career further, and thrive in an award-winning culture. Learn more about our benefits.

Responsibilities

• Own and serve as the technical expert for a suite of manufacturing equipment supporting metrology equipment.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to metrology systems (CDSEM, FIB, profilometers, AOI systems).
• Coordinate vendor service visits for preventive and corrective maintenance events.
• Drive the capital equipment purchasing process, including requirements definition, vendor evaluation, and installation/acceptance support.
• Develop, execute, and continuously improve preventative maintenance and repair procedures (including documentation and training as needed).
• Respond to urgent equipment downtime events in the manufacturing environment and restore tools to production safely.
• Lead hardware upgrades, tool improvements, and automation initiatives to improve capability, uptime, and safety.
• Partner with process engineers and operators to support volume production and enable R&D process development.
• Drive reliability improvements to reduce repeat downtime and improve tool availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a closely related field.
• Engineering experience in a manufacturing or similarly complex technical environment.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting electro-mechanical systems (motors/drives, encoders, sensors, actuators, servos/motion control).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical and electrical schematics/wiring diagrams to trace signals, isolate faults, and safely return equipment to service.
• Willingness to learn new skills and tackle unfamiliar challenges.

• Master’s degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• Direct experience with automated optical inspection (AOI), profilometry, CDSEM and FIB systems in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience debugging control systems: PLC I/O checkout, interlocks/safety circuits, servo faults, and HMI/alarm logic.
• Experience installing, relocating, and qualifying tools, including factory and site acceptance testing (FAT/SAT), bring-up, and acceptance documentation.
• Proven track record of leading complex technical projects to completion.
• Excellent documentation and technical writing skills.
• Proficiency with CAD (such as SolidWorks, Siemens NX).

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