Senior Engineer/Staff Engineer, AS Mechanical Engineering (AP BU)

About the company

Founded in 1951, Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLIC) specialize in developing cutting-edge semiconductor and electronics assembly solutions enabling a smarter and more sustainable future. Ever-growing range of products and services supports growth and facilitates technology transitions across large-scale markets.

Your tasks

As the Senior Engineer / Staff Engineer, AS Mechanical Engineering (AP BU), you will leverage years of precision equipment development experience to develop, optimize, validate and integrate high performance modules into Kulicke and Soffa’s market leading line of advanced semiconductor bonding equipment.

• Define requirements and validation plans based on system level specs
• Conceptualize, design and create drawings in CAD
• Specify commercial components to achieve target performance
• Analyse and solve design challenges to performance requirements
• Develop and execute validation tests for electro-mechanical subsystems
• Work closely with EE and Software teams to achieve module performance
• Work with external parties on outsourced modules
• Ensure effective transition to manufacturing of new modules and designs
• Interface and align with customers, marketing and program management
• Understand technical issues and requests from the field and provide solutions
• Collaborate with other module owners to define module interfaces
• Perform structural and other forms of modelling and analysis
• Optimize designs for manufacturability, durability and ease-of-use
• Leverage various software tools and lab equipment to collect data
• Take ownership and drive projects and issues to closure
• Mentor junior team members to ensure productivity and design quality
• Prioritize activities and guide project team members to meet deadlines
• Review designs, drawings, procedures, test plans and test results

Requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum of 5~8 years of experience in relevant industry
• Proven track record in product development of industrial equipment
• Advanced knowledge of high precision electro-mechanical components
• Expert knowledge in 3D CAD design tools such as NX or ProEngineer
• Cross-functional ability (conversant in electrical systems and software principles)
• Effective verbal & written communication skills
• A positive attitude, an open mindset and a team-oriented nature
• Experience and familiarity with semiconductor equipment
• Full product lifecycle experience, from concept to production to customer interaction
• Strong analytical and modeling skills (Excel, FEA, MATLAB, coding/scripting)
• Experience in project management/planning and team leadership
• Experience with optimization of dynamic structures
• Expertise in motion systems (stepper motors, servo systems, sensors, encoders…)
• Experience with thermal, fluid and pneumatic systems
• Experience with mechanisms/motion systems that achieve micron-level precision
• Expertise in material properties/behavior in high temperature applications
• Experience with cleanroom standards and very low particle generation
• Experience and competence with collaborative, multi-site development teams
• Experience and fluency with Siemens NX and TeamCenter

Other

Please refer to the website for more details: www.kns.com.

Equal Opportunity Kulicke & Soffa recruits on the basis of merit (such as skills, experience or ability to perform the job), regardless of age, race, gender, religion, marital status and family responsibilities, or disability.