Responsible for the design, analysis, testing, and manufacturing support of mechanical components in power conversion and plasma source products. Must be multi-faceted in all aspects of mechanical engineering and willing to take ownership of designs. Most important areas of expertise are heat-transfer and materials science.
Responsibilities:
- Independently prepares detailed and optimized mechanical designs of high power electronics packaging and vacuum chambers.
- Own the design and documentation of sheet metal, injection-molded, and machined parts.
- Participates in a multi-disciplined design team and is active in supporting new platform development activities. Design team interaction with Asia locations and within the US.
- Makes mathematical calculations to determine dimensional and positional variation (tolerance stackups) for mechanical components.
- Engineering simulation experience, including thermal, structure, and fluid-flow.
- Experiment design and data acquisition, such as temperature measurements, stress/strain measurements.
- Takes into account solid material properties, behaviors, and failure modes of: polymers, metals, and ceramics.
- Design and carry-out experiments to assess component durability or performance.
- Interacts with manufacturers to produce manufacturable and cost efficient parts.
- Considers method of fabrication during the design process – including maching, grinding and forming – in order to produce a manufacturable, optimized design.
- Provide guidance to Mechanical Designers and Drafters.
- Participates in the manufacturing and re-work of prototype parts, including 3D printing.
Experience & Skillsets:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science.
- Minimum of 5 years of related design experience.
- Advanced knowledge of Solid Works or other 3D modeling software.
- Must have a working knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing per ANSIY14.5.
- Experience in thermal analysis, hand calculations, and engineering simulation software. Ansys preferred.
- Experience with plasma processing and manufacturing, knowledge of materials, purity, cleanliness required for semiconductor wafer processing.
- Demonstrated experience with vacuum equipment as applied to plasma processing.
- Knowledge of materials science to design parts to withstand harsh plasma environments.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing process in metal machining, sheet metal, injection molding.
- Expertise in thermal instrumentation and experimental design validation.
- Prefer ability of scripting in Python or Matlab to support data acquisition and design simulation.
- Prefer experience in developing anodization for corrosive atmospheres.