Engineer III, Mechanical
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $42 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them.

This Senior Mechanical Engineer opportunity is a part of the Materials and Structural Analysis Semiconductor Business Unit located in Hillsboro, OR. We focus on providing physical failure analysis and metrology solutions to the semiconductor market to help our customers develop and ramp to production their most advanced integrated circuits. Our Hillsboro site produces world class electron microscope systems and core technology used by scientists and engineers to drive innovation around the globe. Our products have been instrumental in Nobel prize winning discoveries, have been highlighted by National Geographic, and were awarded Gold at the Edison awards. You will join a growing team committed to collaboration, continuous improvement, and development of you as a person.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the hardware development of highly customized, multi-million dollar microscopes with sub-nanometer resolution by working closely with, and learning from, world class Marketing, Project Management, Operations, suppliers, and engineers and scientists of a diverse set of backgrounds.
• Mechanical development from requirements to production release with concept layout, detailed design, analysis and testing as appropriate with a strong emphasis on precision design.
• Make and meet project cost, quality and schedule work you're doing
• Provide mechanical scoping and guidance for new projects, NSR's and potential portfolio changes
• Support release to production
• Lead improvements in tools, processes and standard methodologies
• Provide innovative solutions to design challenges

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 5+ years of Mechanical Engineering experience leading the development of complex capital, and/or metrology, equipment. Advanced degrees highly desired and may substitute for experience.
• Precision machine design proficiency, design for stiffness, controlling degrees of freedom, error budgeting, sensor selection, material selection, GD&T, design for manufacturability
• Experience with Traditional and additive manufacturing methods and joining techniques (welding, brazing, ...)

• Masters or PhD in Physics, Mechanical, Systems or Electrical Engineering
• Experience in semiconductor capital equipment development
• Successful track record leading multi-functional technical teams
• Experience with metrology, motion systems, machine vision, vacuum systems, ceramics, high voltage, wafer handling, automation and/or charged particle systems.
• Experience with technology development and qualification
• Proficiency with CAE