
Laboratory Service Engineer 3
Required skills
- technical field
- schematic diagrams
- electrical
- fluidic
- mechanical
- vacuum systems
- hazardous gas
- liquid materials
- Personal Protective Equipment
Nice to have
- semiconductor equipment
- metrology equipment
- Hitachi
- Thermo Fisher
- Zeiss
- SEM/STEM
Role summary
Lam Research is seeking a Laboratory Service Engineer to join their Metrology Core group. This role involves hands-on maintenance, troubleshooting, calibration, and modification of state-of-the-art metrology lab equipment in an R&D environment. You will support engineering teams by ensuring equipment functionality, diagnosing and repairing mechanical, electromechanical, electronic, and vacuum systems, and handling hazardous materials safely. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, developing procedures, and maintaining documentation. Preferred qualifications include experience with Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV) and specific SEM/STEM equipment.
The group you’ll be a part of
This position will be for a highly functional and adaptive team member for Lam's Metrology Core group. Teamwork and communication are paramount to this team's success and will rely heavily on the skillsets and abilities to work both in group settings and individual operations. Our Metrology Core team is highly motivated and focused on continuous improvement for career growth and opportunities within our team.
The impact you’ll make
As a Laboratory Service Engineer at Lam, you're a pivotal force in maintaining and modifying equipment in our applications lab for the Metrology Core engineering equipment team. It’s not the typical lab; you’ll be hands-on with state-of-the-art equipment performing maintenance, troubleshooting, and calibration. You'll support and maintain innovative equipment providing direct support to engineering teams, making you an integral part of our technology’s success.
In this role, you will support testing, modification, fabrication and assembly of SEM/STEM sample systems, and specialized related Metrology equipment for the development of next generation semiconductor equipment.
What you’ll do
- Operate in an R&D environment performing preventative and corrective maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, and calibrations on metrology lab equipment.
- Diagnose and repair mechanical, electromechanical, electronic, and vacuum equipment.
- Ensure safe handling of hazardous gas and liquid materials using required Personal Protective Equipment.
- Partner with cross-functional teams – including process development, hardware, and software engineering – on R&D activities, customer demos, and supporting equipment.
- Install and provide support for prototype equipment, developing procedures and documentation.
- Maintain alignment on priorities across tasks that vary from dynamic to consistent with clear and proactive communications.
- Provide training needs for our self service areas.
Who we’re looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field with 5+ years of experience; or Associates degree in a technical field or equivalent military training with 7+ years of relevant experience; or 9+ years’ relevant industry experience.
- Hands-on equipment maintenance experieince
- Able to read schedmatic diagrams.
- Able to troubleshoot electrical, fluidic, mechanical and vacuum systems
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ years Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV) experience.
- 5+ years hands on experience maintaining semiconductor equipment, ideally metrology equipment.
- Experience operating or maintaining Hitachi, Thermo Fisher (Formerly FEI) and Zeiss SEM/STEM equipment.
- SEM/FIB operational skills
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.
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Salary
CA San Francisco Bay Area Salary Range for this position: $32.21 - $70.19.
The above salary range for this position is relevant to applicants that reside or work onsite in the California, San Francisco Bay Area only. Salary offers will depend on factors that include the location you work from, your level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience and comparison to other employees already in this role. Actual salary may vary from salary offered due to numerous factors including but not limited to unpaid time off, unpaid leave, company mandated shutdown, and other relevant factors.
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.
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Build a scalable cache layer for distributed systems.
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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}.
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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.
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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.
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