Senior RF/DC Power Electronics Engineer

MKS Instruments, Inc.; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 88,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

MKS Instruments, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Electronic Engineer to partner with the Sustaining Engineering Team in performing product engineering on high power RF and DC generators used in semiconductor fabrication.

You will design changes to ensure top quality, create and validate new assemblies or derivative designs, and work with cross-functional teams and customers to troubleshoot and improve reliability at the component level. Based in Rochester, NY.

Qualifications

• A B.S. in Electronic Engineering or another technically related field.
• 5+ years of related experience.
• A strong curiosity and interest to understand the root cause of failures in RF/DC technology.
• An ability to use lab equipment such as meters, oscilloscopes, function generators etc.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• An ability to work independently under minimum supervision.

Responsibilities

• Sustain and improve high power RF generators rated 400KHz to 60MHz, up to 100kW.
• Perform analysis to determine root cause of failure on production yield fall-out and customer returns.
• Plan and conduct RF/DC testing, circuit analysis, trouble shooting, modeling, failure duplication and device analysis down to the component level.
• Provide technical support to application engineers and help to solve on-site engineering problems.
• Work on second source component qualification.
• Interface with suppliers, customers, manufacturing and materials organizations.
• Support design documentation & configuration control of released products.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Lab equipment operation

Independent work

Strong communication

Education

B.S. in Electronic Engineering or related field

Tools

Oscilloscope

Function generator

Multimeter

Job description

MKS Instruments, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Electronic Engineer to partner with the Sustaining Engineering Team in performing product engineering on high power RF and DC generators used in semiconductor fabrication.

You will design changes to ensure top quality, create and validate new assemblies or derivative designs, and work with cross-functional teams and customers to troubleshoot and improve reliability at the component level. Based in Rochester, NY.