
Product Engineer 4
Required skills
- Product Engineer
- Platform Global Product Support
- technical support
- field engineers
- technicians
- product support personnel
- diagnosing
- repairing
- complex electro/mechanical equipment
- robotics
Nice to have
- Failure Mode Effect Analysis
- FMEA
- Root Cause-Corrective Action
- RCCA
- 8D
- 5-Whys
Role summary
Lam Research is seeking a Product Engineer for their Platform Global Product Support team within the Global Products Group. This role provides critical technical support to field engineers and technicians, focusing on diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing, and debugging complex semiconductor equipment and software. The engineer will collaborate with customers and internal teams to resolve issues, analyze failures, and report design or reliability problems. Responsibilities include customer installation, training, and creating/updating documentation. The role requires a Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience or equivalent, strong problem-solving skills (preferably 8D methodology), and excellent communication abilities. Experience with FMEA, RCCA, and semiconductor equipment is preferred. The position involves working in a cleanroom or fab environment and may require up to 25% travel.
The group you’ll be a part of
In the Global Products Group, we are dedicated to excellence in the design and engineering of Lam’s etch and deposition products. We drive innovation to ensure our cutting-edge solutions are helping to solve the biggest challenges in the semiconductor industry.
The impact you’ll make
At Lam, as a Product Engineer in the Platform Global Product Support team, you're the backbone of technical support for field engineers, technicians, and product support personnel. Collaborating closely with customers and internal teams, you will provide real-time problem-solving to customer challenges and to enhance our products. Your expertise is crucial in diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing, and debugging complex semiconductor equipment. Your swift action in responding to situations is critical in resolving issues and ensuring satisfaction of Lam’s valued customers.
What you’ll do
- Global Product Support engineer who will provide technical support to field engineers, technicians, and product support personnel who are diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing, and debugging complex electro/mechanical equipment, robotics, computer systems, complex software, or networked and/or wireless systems.
- Respond to situations where first-line product support has failed to isolate or fix problems in malfunctioning equipment or software, including failure analysis.
- Reports design, reliability and maintenance problems or bugs to design engineering/software engineering and collaborates on solutions.
- Involved in customer installation and training.
- Provides support to customer/users where the product is highly technical or sophisticated in nature.
- Creates and presents reports related to design, reliability, maintenance problems, SW bugs, projects, and escalations to the relevant factory groups and creates and updates documentation for field service engineers and customers.
Work in a cleanroom lab and/or customer semiconductor fab environment
Who we’re looking for
- Bachelors' degree with a minimum of 8 years expeirence or a Master’s degree in Material Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optics, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related field with 6+ years of experience; or a PhD with 3 years of professional experience; or equivalent experience.
- Excellent written/verbal communication, fluent in English, and strong presentation skills.
- Capable of structured problem solving (preferably using 8D methodology).
- Teamwork and ability to establish successful relationships in a multicultural environment with external and internal customers.
- Service orientated and ability to work in a matrix environment.
- Comfortable traveling up to 25% of the time.
Preferred qualifications
- Preferred experience: Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), Root Cause-Corrective Action (RCCA), 8D & 5-Whys Problem solving.
- Experience working with robotics and/or semiconductor equipment.
Our commitment
We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.
Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.
Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.
Our Perks and Benefits
At Lam, our people make amazing things possible. That’s why we invest in you throughout the phases of your life with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits.
Sample Lam Research interview questions
- 1
Build a scalable cache layer for distributed systems.
system designmedium - 2
Connected Components in an Undirected Graph Determine the number of connected components in an undirected graph. Input: n = 4, edges = [[0,1],[2,3]] Output: 2 Explanation: The graph is split completely evenly into two distinct isolated components: nodes {0,1} and nodes {2,3}.
codingmedium - 3
Pacific and Atlantic Water Flow Calculate water flow from a matrix to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Input: heights = [[2,1],[1,2]] Output: [[0,0],[0,1],[1,0],[1,1]] Explanation: All cells can flow to both oceans because water can move to adjacent cells of equal or lower height or directly off the edges.
codingmedium - 4
Longest Substring with Two Distinct Characters Find the longest substring with at most two distinct characters. Input: s = "ccaabbb" Output: 5 Explanation: The substring "aabbb" contains exactly two distinct characters and has a maximum length of 5.
codingmedium - 5
Diameter of a Binary Tree Find the diameter of a binary tree. Input: root = [1,2] Output: 1 Explanation: The longest path is simply the single edge connecting the root node to its only child.
codingmedium
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