Senior Product Safety Engineer - Semiconductor Equipment

Applied Materials; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Materials in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Product Safety Engineer (E3) to ensure safety compliance of our semiconductor equipment. You will lead risk assessments (FMEA, FTA, HazOp) and drive corrective actions with cross-functional teams to minimize risk to employees and customers.

Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and quality teams, adhering to SEMI S2/S8/S10, NFPA 79, and IEC 61010-1 standards, with occasional travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master of Science in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, Safety, or a related engineering discipline.
• 5-7 years of experience in product safety, compliance, or equipment engineering preferred.
• Expertise in engineering risk assessment methods and interpreting drawings, schematics and specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to document findings for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally to customer and manufacturing sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional evaluations of new technologies and their potential interaction with other systems using structured risk assessment methods (FMEA, FTA, HazOp, SEMI S10).
• Develop and implement programs that minimize risk to employees, customers/facility, and the environment relating to Applied products.
• Initiates product and system safety analysis on components, subsystems, and complete systems.
• Leads compliance evaluation of products against company, industrial guidelines, standards and governmental requirements.
• Supports design reviews from a product safety perspective, providing early input to design teams.

Skills

FMEA

FTA

HazOp

SEMI S10

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor or Master in Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical/Industrial/Safety engineering

Tools

SEMI S2/S8/S10 standards

Job description

Applied Materials in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Product Safety Engineer (E3) to ensure safety compliance of our semiconductor equipment. You will lead risk assessments (FMEA, FTA, HazOp) and drive corrective actions with cross-functional teams to minimize risk to employees and customers.

Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and quality teams, adhering to SEMI S2/S8/S10, NFPA 79, and IEC 61010-1 standards, with occasional travel as needed.