PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT RELIABILITY ENGINEER

Axcelis Technologies, Inc. is a world-leading provider of equipment and services to the semiconductor manufacturing industry. For thirty five years, chipmakers from around the globe have relied on Axcelis' systems and process expertise to form the transistors that power all electronics - from smart phones and tablets, to laptops, personal music players and more. Our goal is to accelerate the pace of innovation in these markets, to power the digital revolution.

The position title will be commensurate with the qualifications of the selected candidate. The ideal candidate will champion reliability across the corporation and be intimately involved in our concurrent product development.  Candidate will actively facilitate and participate in improvement of new product development processes, CIP activities and design for reliability initiatives.  The position requires active and continuous interaction with manufacturing, engineering, marketing, and supply chain to ensure reliability requirements are well defined, understood, incorporated and met in our processes and products.

As the Product Development Engineer focused on Reliability, you will lead or direct multiple reliability engineering projects in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. You will also work with other product development engineers to ensure proliferation of Design For Reliability methods into new product developments, plan the reliability validation tests, and lead the qualification of parts/assemblies in support of release.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE RELIABILITY ENGINEER

• Have an understanding of SEMI-standard reliability metrics.  Understand customer requirements, product specifications and product application and how it relates to part/product/process and lead the qualification in support of release.
• Work cross-functionally to resolve reliability problems that result in excessive field failures.
• Drive Failure Analysis and Corrective Actions towards successful implementation of solutions.
• Interface with design engineering & marketing organizations to generate and/or approve product verification and validation plans, including performance, life/reliability testing.
• Participate in the design reviews representing as a customer advocate on fleet health, failure modes and mechanisms and the design impact on Reliability.
• Develop reliability test plans that represent the expected use environment and operational conditions.
• Select, analyze, and interpret the results of various test methods to be used during product development and end product testing.
• Identify highest-impact opportunities to optimize existing systems reliability performance
• Develop processes, systems and tools to improve effectiveness of the Reliability Engineering function
• Develop reliability allocation across the products
• Develop predictive maintenance and field diagnostic tools
• Perform component & system level modeling/simulation.
• Use the reliability data to define product improvements (both hardware and software).
• Ensure organizational knowledge regarding design for quality and reliability of products is documented, archived, maintained, disseminated and consistently applied.
• Consult and work with development teams and other project teams regarding the application of Reliability Engineering tools (e.g. statistical analysis, reliability modeling & prediction, FMEA, FTA, DFx techniques, fault tolerance, optimization, DOE, etc) to achieve quality and reliability goals.
• Travel to customer sites, as required. Work with multiple customer and service organizations worldwide.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Technically astute and detail oriented. High-energy, hands-on, self-confident leader with broad knowledge of product development, manufacturing quality and reliability methods.
• Strong interpersonal skills, personal presence, style, and demeanor, to effectively influence and lead others to find and implement solutions to complex quality and reliability problems.
• Excellent listening, written and verbal communications skills.
• Strong desire to learn and grow your career with the organization.
• Able to travel to supplier sites worldwide (10% travel).

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

BS in Engineering field with experience in Reliability.  MS degree and Semiconductor capital equipment experience a strong plus

Required Skills Required Experience