Materials Engineer

Material & Process Engineer

Job Description:

• Create new thin film coating designs for customer applications
• Develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity
• Collaborate with Program Management to create a project plan, budget, and schedule
• Provide program/project work instructions to early career engineers and production technicians
• Support operations team from equipment setup, calibration, through production
• Order, analyze, and interpret in-process metrology data to determine process adjustments
• Compare metrology data to customer specifications to evaluate fitness for use
• Review customer requirements documents to support the technical customer proposal content
• Meet with customers for collaborative discussions and design presentations
• Promote a collaborative team environment

Basic Qualification:

• Experienced in thin film coating designs and materials
• Experience with sputtered thin films design, processes, and equipment
• Roll to roll deposition and/or converting experience
• Familiar with thin film design and expertise in one or more thin film design tools: TFCalc, OptiLayer, FilmStar, FilmWizard
• Statistical methods and design of experiments
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications
• Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills

Desired Skills:

• Ability to create and present technical content for customer meetings
• Comfortable taking calculated risks and learning from failures with a growth mindset
• Planning and leading projects to meet established requirements
• Programming experience and Visual Basic Macro Scripting or similar analysis software
• Experience with Optical Spectrometer, SEM, XRF measurements and interpreting the results

Manager also open to seeing a level 2 Pay Range ($50-55)

Required experience

• 5+ years thin film coating designs and materials experience (level 2: 1-2 years)
• 5+ years experience with sputtered thin films deposition (level 2: general knowledge)
• 2 years experience with roll to roll deposition and/or converting experience (level 2: no experience required)