Equipment Engineer, Deposition

The role

You will own a set of vacuum deposition tools including ALD and PECVD platforms. You will perform hands-on maintenance, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis to ensure tool availability and production.

What you will do

• Own OEE, availability, MTBF, and MTTR for the toolset.
• Diagnose and restore failed components on tools.
• Close root cause on chronic failures, wafer breakage, and leaks using 8D, FMEA, and Pareto.
• Analyze alarm histories, maintenance records, and tool data in JMP, SQL, Python, or Excel.
• Own the PM schedule and set critical-spares levels.
• Maintain interlocks, gas detection, exhaust, abatement, and vacuum safety systems.
• Work with Process Engineering on chamber condition and hardware.
• Bring tools through install, SAT, and qualification into production.
• Write procedures and train technicians.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Mechatronics Engineering, or an associate degree with equivalent hands-on experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on equipment engineering in semiconductor, solar, or similar high-volume manufacturing.
• Hands-on repair of vacuum deposition tools (ALD, PECVD, LPCVD, or sputter).
• Repair of dry and turbo pumps, gauges and valves, RF generators and matching networks, electrodes, precursor delivery and vaporizers, and chamber kits.
• Component-level troubleshooting from electrical schematics, pneumatic drawings, P&IDs, and PLC/HMI diagnostics.
• Track record of eliminating chronic equipment failure.
• Safe working practice with pyrophoric and toxic process gases, vacuum systems, helium leak detection, and LOTO.

Nice to have

• Solar cell (TOPCon, PERC, or HJT) or semiconductor fab experience.
• Greenfield tool install, SAT, and ramp experience.

About the company

T1 Energy is an American solar manufacturer building a domestic solar supply chain. They operate facilities including G1_Dallas and G2 in Rockdale, Texas.