Senior Engineer, Field Service
Originally posted 9 October 2026 by the employer.
Support customers by installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing advanced semiconductor capital equipment.
About the role
As a Senior Field Service Engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting customers by installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing advanced semiconductor capital equipment.
What you'll do
- Perform installation, qualification, preventative maintenance, and remedial repair activities on complex semiconductor capital equipment.
- Troubleshoot and resolve electrical, electronic, mechanical, and software-related equipment issues in customer manufacturing environments.
- Provide timely and professional technical support to customers.
- Interpret and utilize electronic and electro-mechanical schematics, drawings, and technical documentation to diagnose equipment issues.
- Support equipment upgrades, modifications, and process improvements.
- Document service activities, maintenance actions, and technical findings accurately and thoroughly.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electro-Mechanical Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent military technical training.
- 5+ years of field service, customer support, or semiconductor manufacturing experience involving complex capital equipment.
- Strong troubleshooting skills with complex microprocessor-controlled electro-mechanical systems.
- Ability to read and interpret electrical, electronic, and electro-mechanical schematics and drawings.
- Experience performing preventative maintenance, installations, repairs, and system diagnostics.
- Working knowledge of oscilloscopes, digital voltmeters (DVMs), and common diagnostic tools.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting semiconductor capital equipment in wafer fabrication environments.
- Knowledge of vacuum systems, closed-loop gas control systems, and electro-pneumatic controls.
- Experience with Epitaxial tool sets.
- Experience with RF-induced plasma technologies.
- Familiarity with robotics, motion control systems, and microprocessor-based controllers.
- Understanding of software fundamentals and equipment control systems.
- Experience handling or working around toxic and/or flammable gases and chemicals in semiconductor environments.
- Knowledge of structured problem-solving methodologies and root-cause analysis techniques.
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 | ASM International | All employers we track in this specialty (3718 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 163 | 3718 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 264 | 9796 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 77 d | 53 d (+24 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 (this employer) · 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.