Maintain high uptime, performance, and operational readiness across fabrication, microscopy, and cleanroom tools. Coordinate preventive maintenance, downtime planning, troubleshooting activities, and vendor service engagements with engineering and maintenance teams. Define, maintain, and enforce laboratory tool rules, contamination controls, approved materials lists, and standard operating procedures. Evaluate tool readiness and compatibility for new materials, chemistries, and process flows, identifying risks and defining safe adoption pathways. Serve as the primary operational interface with external vendors, service providers, and facilities partners. Collaborate with Environmental Health and Safety partners to ensure compliance with chemical, material, and laboratory safety requirements. Required Qulifications: Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related field. Demonstrated experience working in fabrication, cleanroom, microscopy, semiconductor, scientific instrumentation, or ultra‑high vacuum laboratory environments. Experience leveraging artificial intelligence tools to drive innovation, efficiency, performance modeling, analysis, research gathering, and task automation in an AI‑first environment. Strong understanding of contamination control strategies, tool qualification, and laboratory operations standards. Experience supporting semiconductor, quantum hardware, photonics, or advanced materials laboratories. Demonstrated ability to work inclusively across multidisciplinary engineering, scientific, and operations teams.
