Equipment Engineer: Fusion Bar Fab - Sherman, TX, United States
Originally posted 30 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Equipment Engineer is responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of manufacturing equipment within the Fusion Bar production area. The role focuses on equipment supporting Cleaving, Stacking/Unstacking, Riber MBE 412 Passivation, E-Beam Coating (PVD), and FiconTEC UMB Testing systems.
What you'll do
- Direct and manage the installation, qualification, preventative maintenance programs, and performance optimization of assigned wafer processing tool sets. - Drive equipment issues to root cause using 5Y and 8D analysis, implementing corrective and preventive actions. - Lead technicians on complex tool repairs, establishing action plans, providing hands-on troubleshooting, and assigning day-to-day priorities. - Maintain communications across process engineering, quality, test, and manufacturing to ensure tool availability, updating tool status in Camstar. - Manage spare parts inventory and partner with equipment suppliers and vendors to improve tool capabilities and uptime. - Support 24/7 factory operations, including rotating on-call communication, and travel domestically and internationally when needed.
What you'll need
- 10+ years of experience working on wafer processing equipment or related semiconductor manufacturing tools. - 4-year college degree or Military Electronics certification (considered in conjunction with years of semiconductor experience). - Practical ability to troubleshoot RF systems, vacuum systems (dry pumps, cryo pumps, turbo pumps, vacuum sensors, MFCs), and perform leak detection using helium leak detectors and RGAs. - Proven experience reading electronic schematics, mechanical blueprints, pneumatic diagrams, vacuum diagrams, and hydraulic system prints. - Hands-on expertise using test equipment such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, high-voltage probes, pressure/temperature gauges, and RF meters. - Understanding of semiconductor processes including Etch, CVD, PVD, and Furnace, along with working knowledge of SPC theory. - Ability to work in a Class 100/1000 cleanroom, wear full cleanroom attire, work around process chemicals and gases, stand up to 10 hours, and lift up to 50 pounds.
Nice to have
- Direct maintenance knowledge of Cleaving, Stacking/Unstacking, Riber MBE 412 Passivation, E-Beam Coating (PVD), and FiconTEC UMB Testing systems. - Familiarity with Plasmatherm LAPECVD, Matrix Asher, Lam Rainbow, Oxford ICP, or KLA/SPTS ICP equipment.
This role has been open 113 days — well above the 56-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3866
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Median days open
56 d
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Median salary
$126k
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| Metric | Coherent Corp | All employers we track in this specialty (3866 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 51 | 3866 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 155 | 10066 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 69 d | 56 d (+13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 631 open roles · median 56 d
- Lam Research · 580 open roles · median 40 d
- Micron Technology · 291 open roles · median 45 d
- KLA Corporation · 249 open roles · median 71 d
- ASML · 185 open roles · median 72 d
- ASM International · 162 open roles · median 88 d
How we counted: 3866 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.