Senior Field Service Engineer - US - CA - San Jose, United States
$100,799 USD yearly
Originally posted 27 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Field Service Engineer, you will lead onsite installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair activities for complex Veeco systems at a major customer site in San Jose, California.
What you'll do
- Lead the installation, upgrade, calibration, testing, warranty service, preventive maintenance, and repair of Veeco semiconductor equipment while meeting safety and security standards. - Diagnose complex equipment and system malfunctions, determine root causes, implement corrective actions, and verify stable performance prior to returning systems to service. - Own onsite technical coordination and customer communication, delivering status, risk, and recovery updates for equipment-related activities. - Improve service quality by creating and implementing processes, methods, and technical solutions that reduce downtime and prevent repeat failures. - Mentor and train junior field service engineers in troubleshooting, safe work practices, documentation, and customer-site execution. - Document equipment events, corrective actions, and daily service activity in the Veeco Service Portal.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or a related technical field with at least 8 years of semiconductor equipment experience (or equivalent military technical experience/combination of education and experience). - Hands-on experience installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, or repairing complex semiconductor process equipment in a customer-site or production environment. - Advanced knowledge of vacuum systems, gas delivery, electronics, mechanics, pneumatics, robotics, and semiconductor wafer-processing equipment. - Demonstrated ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and piping and instrumentation diagrams. - Proficiency in system integration, equipment testing, debugging, and using hand tools on complex electrical, pneumatic, and mechanical assemblies. - Working knowledge of semiconductor cleanroom protocols, hazardous materials controls, and contamination-prevention requirements.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting metal-organic chemical vapor deposition systems or comparable deposition equipment.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 57-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3904
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$126k
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| Metric | Veeco Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (3904 roles · 84 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 61 | 3904 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 92 | 10170 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 49 d | 57 d (−8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 663 open roles · median 56 d
- Lam Research · 568 open roles · median 40 d
- KLA Corporation · 290 open roles · median 68 d
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- ASML · 183 open roles · median 81 d
- ASM International · 157 open roles · median 85 d
How we counted: 3904 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 84 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 28 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.