Fab Equipment & Maintenance Engineer

Why this work matters

Touchdown is engineering modular manufacturing for the chips and memory systems future computing needs. This role helps turn a buyer's physical result into a qualified process or a defensible decision to use an existing supplier. Advanced packaging is our intended first fab class; no production fab is operating today.

Overview

You will translate process requirements into equipment acceptance criteria and service plans. Before a tool is purchased or installed, you will compare vendor capability, utilities, safety, throughput, spares, and lifecycle cost. Once a qualified site and owner authorize physical work, you will help bring tools up, sustain them, and document what must happen after a fault.

What you will own

• Evaluate tools; after authorization, own installation interfaces, qualification, calibration, preventive maintenance, spares, and recovery.
• Evaluate installed-tool fit, utilities, throughput, safety interlocks, and vendor support.
• Specify commissioning, acceptance, calibration, maintenance, spares, and recovery procedures.
• Track faults and downtime to determine whether repair, supplier service, or route change is best.
• Define tool-state records that connect maintenance events to lots, recipes, process holds, and measurement drift.
• Run fault reviews with operators and vendors to choose repair, replacement, route change, or shutdown.

Technical territory

Tool specifications, FAT/SAT, installation interfaces, interlocks, vacuum and fluid systems, controls, calibration, PM, spare-parts strategy, fault codes, mean time to repair, service contracts, and restart qualification.

Representative outputs

• An installed-tool readiness and service plan with utilities, EHS, spares, calibration, and downtime limits.
• A tool acceptance checklist with facility and service dependencies.
• A PM, spare-parts, calibration, and recovery plan tied to process holds.
• A fault-to-restart playbook with safe isolation, diagnosis, qualified signoff, and affected-material disposition.

What success looks like

• Tool state and maintenance history are visible before material is released.
• A fault leads to a safe hold, diagnosis, and documented restart.
• A tool is not released on availability alone; safety and process checks are complete.
• Recurring faults are measured and resolved without concealing lost capacity or affected lots.

What you bring

• Semiconductor or packaging equipment engineering, service, interlocks, uptime, and vendor support.
• Supported semiconductor or packaging equipment in a qualified operating environment.
• Can troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, vacuum, fluid, and controls interfaces safely.
• Can write PM and lockout procedures with qualified EHS review.
• Can evaluate vendor acceptance data and document gaps before installation or purchase decisions.
• Can turn a failure history into specific PM, spares, service, and recovery changes.

Helpful experience

• Tool installation and vendor acceptance
• Equipment data interfaces and condition monitoring
• Vacuum and plasma systems
• Advanced packaging equipment
• Equipment reliability analysis

How the role works

• Applications are open; the exact work location, arrangement, compensation, and start date will be discussed during hiring.
• Early work can produce engineering plans and partner comparisons. Hands-on work begins only at qualified, authorized facilities.
• You will work with process, equipment, quality, test, customer, and supplier owners as the scope requires.