Manufacturing Engineer - San Diego, CA, United States
$81,375 - $122,063 USD yearly
Originally posted 18 June 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 28 September 2026.
Drive end-to-end manufacturing transfer and manufacturability oversight for EUV lithography systems.
About the role
The Manufacturing Engineer provides manufacturability oversight during the design phase through new product introduction, serving as the interface for customer expectations on new technologies and designs. This role focuses on EUV systems, developing methods, operation sequences, and processes for fabrication, testing, and troubleshooting of parts, sub-assemblies, and hardware/software interfaces.
What you'll do
- Drive end-to-end manufacturing transfer of complex products across global sites, developing transfer strategies, risk assessments, and mitigation plans. - Create complete transfer packages including process flows, work instructions, tooling specifications, BOM/routing, and control plans. - Establish and qualify new workcenters through layout design, tooling validation, equipment qualification, and production readiness reviews. - Write, validate, and optimize assembly and test processes to ensure repeatability, yield, quality, and compliance with Design for Manufacturability and Assembly principals. - Evaluate prototype and manufacturing practices, analyze test data, and recommend process or design modifications. - Ensure compliance with quality, health, and safety guidelines, conducting Last Minute Risk Assessments and participating in cross-functional root cause analysis.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical domain such as mechanical engineering, mechatronics, electrical engineering, or physics. - Experience in a technical production environment with factory transfer, line replication, or new site setup. - Experience with complex assemblies, precision tooling, or high-tech manufacturing environments. - Working knowledge of systems engineering covering hardware and software interfaces. - Experience executing improvement projects utilizing LEAN Manufacturing concepts and statistical tools like JMP or Minitab. - Ability to define Bill of Material structure in support of defined build sequences and read technical drawings and specifications. - Willingness and ability to work in a cleanroom environment.
Nice to have
- Experience working with MRP systems, specifically SAP. - Experience with software and controls. - Design and manufacturing requirement definition skills. - Knowledge of NX Siemens and SolidWorks. - Experience with vacuum systems. - Cleanroom experience in ISO 4-6 environments. - Experience with tooling and packaging development, Test Plans, GR&R, and ANOVA.
Skills: manufacturability oversight, new product introduction, manufacturing transfer, process flows, cleanroom
This role has been open 122 days — well above the 54-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2504
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$100k
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| Metric | ASML | All employers we track in this specialty (2504 roles · 78 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 64 | 2504 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 317 | 10119 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 71 d | 54 d (+17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $100k |
Skills observed across this category: manufacturability oversight, new product introduction, manufacturing transfer, process flows, cleanroom
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 381 open roles · median 78 d
- Applied Materials · 260 open roles · median 36 d
- Entegris · 213 open roles · median 42 d
- Lam Research · 109 open roles · median 65 d
- Infineon Technologies · 100 open roles · median 45 d
- Vishay Intertechnology · 67 open roles · median 37 d
How we counted: 2504 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 78 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 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.