Manufacturing Engineer

San Jose, CA / Science & Research / Full time

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Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer
 
Vibrant America LLC, 3100 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95134
 
Job Duties:
 
• Design, debug, troubleshoot, and test 3D prototypes of pillar plates (microfluidic plates) using Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software to enable rapid, one-step fabrication of complex designs used to build medical diagnostic devices.

• Identify issues in the manufacturing process and implement changes using knowledge of tooling and fabrication equipment, materials, parts, and fabrication processes.

• Integrate the manufacturing processes by working with multidisciplinary teams to improve device performance. Implement Statistical Process Control (SPC), develop process plans and participate in operational excellence activities.

• Collect and maintain data adhering to quality standards for incoming semiconductor wafer lots and perform batch quality control for manufacturing processes.

• Analyze image datasets obtained from capturing images using images of biochips used for assays using image scanning systems.

• Use image data to optimize biochip layout and chip size and to evaluate protein binding capacity to the chip surface.

• Apply continuous improvement methods for the semiconductor fabrication process and document new manufacturing or engineering procedures.
 
Requirements: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a closely related field.
 
Must have taken courses, such as Computational Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer Theory and Applications, and Digital Manufacturing.
 
Must possess the following skills or experience:
 
• Research and development with CFD simulation software tools.

• Use data analysis and regression techniques to organize data and formulate correlations between variables.

• Design and set up experimental rigs for heat transfer analysis experiments.

• Develop computer simulation programs using ANSYS, MATLAB and Python to simulate heat transfer experiments.
 
Annual Salary: $121,000 - $130,000
 
Please submit your resume/application to hr@vibrant-america.com