Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Prototyping & Factory Readiness

ASML US, LLC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ASML US, LLC in San Diego is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to own the readiness and technical performance of prototype test rigs and manufacturing domains. You will bridge product development with hands-on factory execution, planning builds, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

You will work across design, systems, quality, and manufacturing teams to convert prototypes into safer, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related engineering field.
• Minimum of five years in complex manufacturing or NPI environments.
• Experience with high-technology systems (electro-mechanical, laser, vacuum, etc.).
• Experience supporting prototype test rigs and manufacturing readiness.
• Proven root-cause analysis and corrective action experience.
• Cross-functional technical leadership without formal authority.
• Familiarity with planning, BOMs, engineering changes, and manufacturing docs.
• Proficiency in statistical tools and data visualization preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan and support prototype test-rig build, integration, testing, 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.
• Communicate risks, decisions, commitments, and changes to affected teams and confirm follow-through.
• Coach engineers in technical problem solving, execution planning, stakeholder preparation, and follow-through.
• Prepare engineers to represent their assigned technical domains with product, module, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Review technical plans, risk assessments, presentations, and recommendations before key decisions.
• Build distributed ownership of critical knowledge, responsibilities, and stakeholder relationships.
• Convert prototype and factory lessons into sustainable improvements to products, processes, tooling, test methods, and training.
• Standardize effective manufacturing methods, planning practices, procedures, and technical documentation.
• Improve handoffs among the engineering function supporting prototype test-rig build, integration, test, commissioning, troubleshooting, and learning capture; the engineering function supporting repeatable integration and test execution across systems, modules, and factory operations; and related manufacturing teams.
• Share technical knowledge across engineers, technicians, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Problem solving

Plan and schedule

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related engineering field

Tools

DOE

Statistical analysis

Design of Experiments

Lean methods

Job description

ASML US, LLC in San Diego is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to own the readiness and technical performance of prototype test rigs and manufacturing domains. You will bridge product development with hands-on factory execution, planning builds, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

You will work across design, systems, quality, and manufacturing teams to convert prototypes into safer, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.