Quality Application Engineer

• Client AGS Automation Products Group is hiring an application engineer to support product development, customer deployment, and services for Client Smart Factory and Smart Factory Rx Automation products and solutions in the areas of manufacturing execution, factory performance, equipment performance, and advanced process control.
• Additionally, candidate will drive continuous improvement, help improve knowledge base management, and seek opportunities to build organizational efficiencies using technology, AI, machine learning, automation, and optimization.
• Test new builds, patches, versions prior to releasing in customer’s environment.
• Triage and troubleshoot issues across the CIM (e.g., MES, Equipment Automation, CMMS, message bus).
• Work with product engineering’s QA team on continuous improvement activities.
• Assist project manager by tracking issues, patches, and resolution.
• Coordinate customer’s internal teams to deploy and optimize CIM solutions to achieve factory KPIs.
• Coordinate with systems administration and IT teams on developing and deploying CIM solutions.
• Present technical information to customers including technical contributors and managers.
• Create and implement software training and/or demonstrations.
• Project management tasks.
• Perform software installations.
• Knowledge base contribution/management.
• Respond to customer requests for proposal (RFP).
• Develop and deliver statements of work (SOW).
• Improve operations through continuous improvement standards such as: 8D, Six Sigma, Kaizen, 5-Whys.

Requirements

• Must have at least 3+ years of experience working in semiconductor manufacturing as process engineer, software or IT engineer, or manufacturing engineer.
• Must have experience with factory automation applications with specific knowledge in MES, equipment automation, and application integration.
• Must be Familiar with SEMI standards.
• Must have experience working with other factory automation systems such as recipe management, process control, planning, scheduling, dispatching.
• Must have working knowledge of databases and use of SQL.
• Must have working proficiency using programming and scripting languages such as R, Python, C#, Java, C++.