Senior Manufacturing Engineer – Prototype & Factory

ASML US, LLC; 4S Ranch (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ASML US, LLC is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to drive manufacturing readiness and technical performance of prototype test rigs, products, and modules. You will plan builds, support integration, testing, and debugging, and coordinate dependencies across design, test, quality, and manufacturing teams.

You will own manufacturing domains, develop methods, evaluate changes, and lead root‑cause analysis while coaching engineers to ensure scalable, cost‑effective solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or higher in a related technical discipline with preferred advanced degree.
• Minimum five years in complex manufacturing and new product introduction environments.
• Experience with high‑tech electromechanical systems and prototype readiness.

Responsibilities

• Plan and support prototype test‑rig build, integration, test, commissioning, troubleshooting, modification, and decommissioning activities.
• Assess execution readiness for procedures, tooling, test methods, technical information, resources, and approvals.
• Establish safe, executable assembly, integration, and test sequences for new or evolving hardware and systems.
• Coordinate tooling, equipment, material, documentation, facility, safety, hardware, software, and engineering dependencies.
• Capture test‑rig learning and apply it to product designs, procedures, sequences, tooling, test methods, manufacturability, and future factory readiness.
• Own assigned manufacturing processes or technical domains and provide readiness leadership across dependent factory activities.
• Develop and improve manufacturing methods, procedures, tooling, equipment, test methods, and process controls.
• Evaluate and qualify manufacturing changes, including engineering changes and approved departures from standard requirements.
• Analyze yield, quality, cycle time, capacity, reliability, safety, and cost performance to identify improvements.
• Lead complex problem definition, root‑cause analysis, corrective action, and recurrence prevention.
• Serve as the Manufacturing Engineering focal point for an assigned cross‑functional product or module leadership team.

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline; an advanced degree or equivalent experience is preferred.

Minimum of five years of relevant experience in complex manufacturing, prototype, new‑product introduction, integration, test, industrialization, or a closely related engineering environment.

Experience with complex high‑technology systems, such as electromechanical, mechatronic, vacuum, fluid, laser, or controls systems.

Experience supporting prototype test‑rig build, integration, commissioning, troubleshooting, qualification, or manufacturing readiness.

Experience developing manufacturing processes and applying structured problem‑solving methods.

Experience leading root‑cause analysis, corrective action, and recurrence prevention.

Experience providing cross‑functional technical leadership without formal reporting authority.

Experience with technical planning, risk management, stakeholder communication, manufacturing documentation, bills of material, engineering changes, procedures, or product industrialization.

Familiarity with statistical analysis, design of experiments, process capability, Lean methods, data visualization, and relevant planning or analytical software is preferred.

Job description

ASML US, LLC is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to drive manufacturing readiness and technical performance of prototype test rigs, products, and modules. You will plan builds, support integration, testing, and debugging, and coordinate dependencies across design, test, quality, and manufacturing teams.

You will own manufacturing domains, develop methods, evaluate changes, and lead root‑cause analysis while coaching engineers to ensure scalable, cost‑effective solutions.