Systems Engineer

Salary

$110,500.00 - $152,000.00

Location: Santa Clara,CA

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As a Systems Engineer, you’ll design, integrate, and optimize complex systems that drive the semiconductor industry forward. Your expertise in systems thinking and problem-solving is essential as you collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop advanced solutions to intricate processes and writing system specifications.

You’ll be responsible for analyzing requirements, defining system architectures, conducting thorough testing, and ensuring seamless integration of subsystems. Additionally, you’ll identify and mitigate risks, confirming that our systems meet the highest quality standards and exceed customer expectations.

Role Responsibilities

• Support system engineering projects that have a substantial mix of electrical, mechanical, physics, algorithms, and software design, and understand the underlying system implications. Contribute to the system engineering specification within the field of expertise
• Assist in creating the system engineering specification and write the portion of the system engineering specification pertaining to field of technical expertise
• Perform and coordinate tests, and provide feedback to product engineering, physics, algorithms and software on new designs and ongoing engineering improvements
• Identify and troubleshoot moderately difficult engineering problems in field of technical expertise, including serviceability and manufacturability
• Support System Integration during the assembly and final testing of new product designs
• Ensure all new designs of hardware and software meet market requirement specifications and are reliable, safe, user friendly and maintainable by the field
• Assist in defining all external equipment interfaces, analyze architecture ideas and ensure they are up to date and documented.
• Learn and begin contributing to the systems architecture development process.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2-4 years of related experience
• Additional Information
• Time Type: Full time
• Employee Type: Assignee / Regular
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Eligible: Yes

Pay and benefits

The 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.

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