Field Service Engineer (Spector) - Sugar Land, TX - Us - Tx, United States
$34 - $45 USD hourly
Originally posted 8 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Field Service Engineer, you will address complex technical challenges and system performance issues for Ion Beam Deposition systems. This role focuses on advanced manufacturing processes where system downtime, drift, or unresolved defects impact yield and revenue.
What you'll do
- Own high-complexity installations, upgrades, and field escalations for Ion Beam Deposition systems.
- Diagnose and resolve multidiscipline system failures spanning vacuum, motion, electronics, controls, and software.
- Lead corrective and preventive action efforts, ensuring fixes are durable and documented.
- Act as a technical advisor to customer engineering teams on system optimization and stability.
- Serve as the on-site technical escalation authority, prioritizing issues based on customer and business impact.
- Produce clear, detailed service documentation for organizational learning.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of hands-on field service or equipment support experience in semiconductor capital equipment.
- Advanced experience supporting complex vacuum-based systems in cleanroom environments.
- Demonstrated ability to independently resolve escalated, non-routine system failures.
- Deep hands-on expertise with vacuum technologies, including turbomolecular pumps, dry mechanical pumps, cryogenic pumps, helium leak detection, residual gas analyzers, and vacuum instrumentation.
- Skilled at integrating and troubleshooting complex systems that span mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, robotic, and software domains.
- Experienced in leading structured root cause analysis and translating findings into long-term corrective actions.
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 53-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3718
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$126k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Veeco Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (3718 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 50 | 3718 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 82 | 9754 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 53 d (−7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 613 open roles · median 52 d
- Lam Research · 545 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 269 open roles · median 44 d
- KLA Corporation · 254 open roles · median 66 d
- ASML · 198 open roles · median 64 d
- ASM International · 157 open roles · median 78 d
How we counted: 3718 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.