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The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the world’s technology.\nWhat We Offer\nSalary:\n$128,000.00 - $176,000.00Location:\nPortland,ORYou’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible-while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.\nAt Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits.\nAs a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll leverage your strong foundation in physics, mathematics, and materials science to process and resolve mechanical problems, design and implement custom mechanical tooling and associated processes, and enable the handling, assembly, and disassembly of parts, components, sub-assemblies, and final assemblies throughout the product life cycle. You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and modifying mechanical engineering layouts, schematics, and specifications. You will oversee manufacturing and installation processes, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulations-- and you'll coordinate the procurement and assembly of mechanical components and equipment for design projects, identifying sources of critical parts and subsystems to resolve technical issues.Qualifications required:\nMechanical:\nSound material selection judgment, including intuition for thermal expansion behavior and appropriate tolerance ratios.\nDemonstrated ability to design for strength, rigidity, cost and manufacturability against a stated application requirement, and to recognize manufacturability risk in complex designs.\nHands-on tooling and jig design with a usability bias, suited to repetitive assembly or alignment tasks in volume manufacturing.\nExperience working directly with machine shops.\nExperience with electronics packaging\nExperience with liquid cooling systems, pneumatics and fittings.\nFluency in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and in statistical as well as worst-case tolerance analysis.\nExperience designing for precision mounting, positioning, pointing and long-term stability of optical components.\nAnalysis and Simulation:\nHands-on proficiency with finite element analysis for structural, thermal, modal or fluid problems, with evidence of correlating models to measured hardware.\nStructural-Thermal-Optical Performance analysis experience - propagating predicted mechanical or thermal deformation into optical performance, for example by fitting deformed surfaces to Zernike terms and returning them to the optical model.\nOptical:\nWorking familiarity with wavefront theory.\nAble to operate a commercial interferometer for optical characterization using an existing recipe or procedure, and to distinguish conceptually between interferometer types and their appropriate applications.\nFamiliarity with reference flats, spheres and prisms.\nAdvanced practical experience adapting common optical measurement tooling: power and energy probes, cameras, profilers, stages and encoders, alignment telescopes and position-sensitive detectors.\nExperience setting up and using waveform generators, oscilloscopes, multimeters and power supplies.\nExpert operation of a commercial optical inspection microscope.\nAble to interpret optical drawings, and to interpret or modify an existing optical model to test new input/output specifications or operating conditions.\nLaser and imaging alignment technique and intuition across millimeter to nanometer scales.\nAdept at improvising opto-mechanical mounting, measurement, reference and alignment tooling from off-the-shelf components.\nLoose-optic handling, inspection and cleaning; fiber handling, inspection, cleaning and integration.\nExperience safely operating Class 4 lasers\nSoftware and Controls:\nComfortable interpreting, reviewing, lightly editing and extending existing code to tune performance or adapt it to a new use case.\nAble to perform regression testing and contribute to a software feedback and improvement cycle.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nKnowledge of the Applied Materials product life cycle, including prototyping, packaging, material selection and manufacturing methods \nMeasurement system analysis practice: gauge repeatability and reproducibility, uncertainty budgeting, calibration and traceability.\nHighly adept at rapidly prototyping controls or analysis applications in Python, with change management in a Git-style repository.\nAble to develop requirements and specifications for a software utility and coordinate with stakeholders to bring it to production.\nFrom-scratch automation of new or legacy laboratory equipment, across interfaces from serial through to compiled-language integration.\nDesign for reliability practice: failure mode analysis, reliability prediction, and accelerated life or stress testing.\nExperience transferring designs to manufacturing and supporting remotely and on site. \nRole Responsibilities:\nLead and/or design the opto-mechanical solution of complex subsystems.\nIdentify and troubleshoot a wide range of complex mechanical problems with limited to no supervision \nDevelop detailed component and assembly drawings to meet tight tolerancing requirements across production and prototype configurations.\nPerform mechanical analyses to ensure performance stability under operational and environmental conditions.\nDesign sub-assemblies to achieve sub-micron alignment and long-term stability.\nDefine and optimize sub-assemblies to maintain system performance across required temperature operating ranges.\nDefine and own the opto-mechanical interface between optical, mechanical, and electrical subsystems.\nLead integration and alignment activities for prototype and production optical systems.\nDevelop alignment procedures, optical bench setups, and calibration workflows\nDefine, coordinate, perform and generate engineering test reports; specify and review engineering documentation; specify or perform complex engineering analysis \nDevelop, design, or modify engineering layouts, schematics, or drawings/specifications of complex scope \nDesign for manufacturability and HVM, including the development of key suppliers.\nCommunicate with internal and external customers regarding a wide range of complex mechanical issues for specific projects \nGenerate product specifications and drive product design lifecycle.\nServe as a technical lead or subject matter expert on cross-functional program teams, communicating design status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to program management and stakeholders.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree\n5+ years of experience\nAdditional Information\nTime Type:\nFull timeEmployee Type:\nAssignee / RegularTravel:\nYes, 10% of the TimeRelocation Eligible:\nYesThe salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.\nFor all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.\nApplied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.\nIn addition, Applied endeavors to make our careers site accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us via e-mail at ,or by calling our HR Direct Help Line at 877-612-7547, option 1, and following the prompts to speak to an HR Advisor. 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