Equipment Engineer

Introduction

A career at Anderon provides the rare opportunity to help define a new industry. We’re a wafer foundry that’s commercializing semiconductor manufacturing for quantum chips. You’ll partner with innovative clients and leading researchers to develop the technology needed to build the coming quantum economy.

*Please note: Anderon uses IBM's recruitment platform for candidate applications and hiring workflows. While this role is with Anderon, all applications will be submitted and processed through IBM's careers system.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Hardware Developer specializing in Semiconductor Technology Fab Operation, you will design, develop, test, and deliver hardware offerings using the latest technologies. You will work on delivering quality systems to meet market needs, establishing relationships across IBM and with external suppliers/vendors.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Develop Hardware Offerings: Design, develop, test, and deliver hardware products using design documentation, such as Functional Specifications and high-level design documents, ensuring components are unit tested and ready for integration into system products.
• Ensure Quality and Reliability: Test functional and RAS aspects of implementations, identify and provide fixes to defects, and support customer environments in providing end-to-end solutions and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Suppliers: Establish relationships with external suppliers/vendors to ensure quality systems meet market needs.
• Analyze and Resolve Issues: Conduct failure analysis, manage nonconforming materials, and implement corrective and preventive actions to ensure manufacturing quality support.
• Support Manufacturing Process: Provide support for product and manufacturing process qualification, OEM quality assurance, and stop ship/AAP processes.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Exposure to Hardware Development: Familiarity with designing, developing, testing, and delivering hardware offerings using the latest technologies, including experience with design documentation such as Functional Specifications and high-level design documents.
• Understanding of Quality and Reliability: Knowledge of testing functional and RAS aspects of implementations, identifying and providing fixes to defects, and supporting customer environments in providing end-to-end solutions and issue resolution.
• Experience with Semiconductor Technology: Understanding of semiconductor technology fab operation, including corrective and preventive actions, quality audits, nonconforming materials, inventory management, and failure analysis.
• Familiarity with Manufacturing Process: Exposure to product and manufacturing process qualification, OEM quality assurance, and stop ship/AAP processes in a semiconductor technology fab operation environment.
• Collaboration with Suppliers: Experience working with external suppliers/vendors to ensure quality systems meet market needs.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with Advanced Semiconductor Technologies: Exposure to emerging trends and innovations in semiconductor technology fab operation, including new materials, equipment, and manufacturing processes.
• Knowledge of Industry-Specific Quality Standards: Understanding of quality standards and regulations specific to the semiconductor industry, such as ISO/TS 16949 or IATF 16949.
• Experience with Automated Testing Tools: Exposure to automated testing tools and methodologies used in semiconductor technology fab operation, including programming languages and software frameworks.

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