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Senior Engineer I - Equipment

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In-Office
San Jose, CA, USA
70K-205K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
San Jose, CA, USA
70K-205K Annually
Senior level
The Senior Equipment Engineer develops, installs, qualifies, sustains, and improves manufacturing equipment, automation, controls, fixtures, and support systems. Responsibilities include translating operational needs into equipment requirements, analyzing downtime and reliability, leading technical investigations, reviewing designs and qualification evidence, driving safety and continuous improvement, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, and maintaining equipment lifecycle documentation. The role requires hands-on troubleshooting, installation, maintenance, and engineering software proficiency in a semiconductor manufacturing environment.
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Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 17,000-member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us? Looking for an atmosphere of trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, and communication? How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multi-billion dollar (with a B!) global organization? We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology Inc.

People come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. They stay because our culture supports their growth and stability. They are challenged and driven by an incredible array of products and solutions with unlimited career potential. Microchip’s nationally-recognized Leadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually. We take pride in our commitment to employee development, values-based decision making, and strong sense of community, driven by our Vision, Mission, and 11 Guiding Values; we affectionately refer to it as the Aggregate System and it’s won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.

Our company is built by dedicated team players who love to challenge the status quo; we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. People like you.

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Job Description:

Join the Equipment Engineering team as Senior Engineer I-Equipment supporting manufacturing equipment, automation, controls, maintenance strategy, reliability, capacity, qualification, safety, troubleshooting, and lifecycle engineering. This role is best suited for candidates with 5–7.5 years of relevant experience in equipment engineering, automation, controls, maintenance, reliability, manufacturing systems, qualification, troubleshooting, or a closely related area.


In this role, you will own complex individual-contributor outcomes and coordinate technical investigations and reviews, partner with relevant technical and business stakeholders, and help deliver reliable, compliant, high-quality outcomes and continuous improvement.


Responsibilities:


  • Develop, install, qualify, sustain, and improve manufacturing equipment, automation, controls, fixtures, and supporting systems.
  • Translate process, product, safety, quality, capacity, reliability, cost, and schedule needs into equipment requirements.
  • Analyze downtime, performance, capacity, reliability, maintenance, defects, safety, risks, and technical tradeoffs.
  • Lead equipment, automation, controls, process-interface, reliability, safety, and production investigations within approved scope.
  • Review specifications, designs, acceptance tests, qualifications, changes, maintenance plans, and readiness evidence.
  • Drive equipment safety, availability, reliability, automation, capacity, quality, cost, and continuous improvement.
  • Coordinate outcomes across equipment, process, manufacturing, facilities, quality, EHS, IT, suppliers, and operations teams.
  • Maintain specifications, qualification, maintenance, configuration, change, safety, and lifecycle documentation.

Requirements/Qualifications:


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Controls Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering, or a related field
  • 5–7.5 years of relevant experience in equipment engineering, automation, controls, maintenance, reliability, manufacturing systems, qualification, troubleshooting, or a closely related area.
  • Professional Attributes: A proven track record of reliability, sustained accountability, effective teamwork, and integrity/accuracy in representing your qualifications.
  • Hands-on troubleshooting, installation, and preventive/corrective maintenance of mechanical, electromechanical, electronic, or vacuum systems.
  • Proficiency with diagnostic tools, hand tools, and engineering software such as AutoCAD and SolidWorks

Qualified candidates should demonstrate analytical thinking, structured problem solving, technical ownership, clear communication, technical documentation, cross-functional collaboration, quality and safety focus, and sound judgment in equipment engineering work.


Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate:


  • Employment stability, reliability, and sustained accountability in prior roles.
  • Effective teamwork and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Integrity and accuracy in representing qualifications, experience, and credentials.

Preferred Qualifications:


  • Experience with manufacturing equipment, automation, robotics, controls, motion, sensors, facilities interfaces, or maintenance engineering.
  • Experience with equipment qualification, reliability, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, data analysis, scripting, or condition monitoring.
  • Experience with semiconductor or electronics manufacturing, capacity, yield, safety, suppliers, installation, or continuous improvement.
  • Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Controls Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering, or a related field

U.S. Export Controls Requirements: This job requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by the export laws of the United States. Candidates are required to provide proof of either US citizenship, Permanent US residency or classification as a protected individual as defined in 8 USC 1324b (a) (3).

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Carrying, Feeling, Hearing, Other, Pulling, Pushing, Reaching, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

40% sitting, 50% standing, 10% walking. Able to push heavy equipment and lift 20 lbs

Pay Range:

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments. In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below:

Benefits of working at Microchip

The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in the US, is $70,304 - $205,000.*

*Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster.

To all recruitment agencies: Microchip Technology Inc. does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our recruiting team or other Microchip employees. Microchip is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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