Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer - Milpitas, CA, United States
$117,800 - $200,300 USD yearly
Originally posted 9 September 2026 by the employer.
Design mechanical parts and subsystems for wafer inspection tools.
About the role
This role involves designing mechanical parts and subsystems for wafer inspection tools.
What you'll do
- Lead the complete design process, including requirements, concept, design, testing, BOM structure, and scheduling.
- Drive implementation of design best practices into product design that meets requirements, specifications, and SEMI standards.
- Conduct thermal, vibration, and FEA modeling using Creo Parametric.
- Create detailed drawings, design review presentations, procure prototype parts, and integrate systems.
- Collaborate with engineering groups to ensure seamless integration and subsystem or system-level testing.
- Develop supporting documentation, including assembly and test procedures.
What you'll need
- Solid understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals such as mechanics, thermodynamics, and structural analysis.
- Ability to collect requirements, generate conceptual and detailed designs for mechanical parts/subsystems, and evaluate feasibility.
- Experience in assembly, testing, and resolving issues at prototype and integrated system levels.
- Experience in detail drawing creation and application and interpretation of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (ASME Y14.5) and welding (AWS A2.4) symbols.
- Familiarity with engineering materials such as carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum alloys, and plastics.
- Familiarity with manufacturing processes including machining, sheet metal fabrication, welding, and plating.
- Experience in 3D solid/CAD modeling, preferably Creo/Parametric (previously Pro/Engineer).
- Experience in structural finite element analysis (FEA) and software, preferably Pro/Mechanical and/or ANSYS Mechanical.
- Experience in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis software, preferably ANSYS Icepak/Fluent/CFX or similar.
This role has been open 35 days — well below the 50-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
964
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$155k
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| Metric | KLA Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (964 roles · 103 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 64 | 964 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 209 | 6140 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 50 d (−7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $155k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Intel Corporation · 71 open roles · median 33 d
- KLA Corporation (this employer) · 65 open roles · median 42 d
- Teradyne · 55 open roles · median 27 d
- NVIDIA · 52 open roles · median 67 d
- Applied Materials · 49 open roles · median 63 d
- AMD · 45 open roles · median 44 d
How we counted: 964 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 103 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.