What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Electrical Engineer position at Mattson Technology?
Company: Mattson Technology, Inc., a 38-year Silicon Valley company, designs, manufactures, markets, and globally supports plasma and rapid thermal processing equipment to fabricate integrated circuits for the global semiconductor industry.
Mattson Technology, Inc. offers processing equipment that utilizes innovative technologies to deliver advanced processing capabilities and high productivity for the fabrication of current and next-generation integrated circuits. Our equipment and technologies are used by leading memory and logic, analog /power device manufacturers worldwide. Innovations from Mattson Technology in Atomic Surface Engineering address the most critical logic and memory manufacturing challenges.
In May 2016, Mattson Technology was acquired by Beijing’s E-Town Capital. Our new investor’s vision is that Mattson Technology, with its Silicon Valley DNA, will continue to operate as a global, market-driven technology provider serving worldwide semiconductor manufacturing customers. In July, 2025, the company successfully listed in Shanghai’s STAR Exchange. As the external trade compliance environment evolves, Mattson Technology now operates independently from the parent company in product, business, and operations, serving customers outside of China.
Responsibilities:
- Generate electrical design concepts and feasibility studies for making proposals for new CES/CIP/R&D project requests
- Conduct and participate in formal/informal design reviews to contribute and generate discussion/alternate ideas on various aspects of the design
- Design and develop system power distribution, voltage transformation/conversion, electrical protection and coordination, EMI and Harmonics management, Electrical Power calculations, electrical load flow analysis, power factor correction
- Detailed electrical system design based on National Electrical Code (NEC), NFPA79 and SEMI standards including electrical components selection, system layout and wiring
- Design of motor drives and control circuits, sensors/actuators control interface, instrumentation and safety interlocks
- Electrical design integration with communication systems and computer networking, developing Fieldbus IO distribution systems, PLC programming
- Electrical design integration with mechanical, control and software engineering
- Electrical Design Safety and risk assessment
- Manage communications and expectations with internal and external customers and vendors to ensure accomplishing project objectives
- Work intensely with SAP, AutoCAD, SharePoint and other software applications to properly manage and document projects
- Work hands-on when needed in the engineering lab and manufacturing to support the installation and test of CES/CIP designs that get delivered on customer systems
- Requires strong skills in change management, problem solving, communication skills, customer orientation, product technology, global business perspective, personal effectiveness, project management, team skills and quality
- Requires knowledge of systems and software necessary to perform job function such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio, AutoCad, SAP
Requirements:
- BS in Electrical Engineering and 5 years directly related experience, or equivalent
- Experience with High Voltage and Pulse Power systems, high voltage safety and designs
- Knowledge of circuit design and simulation, circuit board layout and fabrication, and EMI/EMC compliance
- Experience with SCR, IGBT and other power switching devices-based converters/inverters and gate drive circuits
- Strong knowledge and experience working with NEC, NFPA79 and other electrical standards
- Prior experience in semiconductor capital equipment and SEMI standards knowledge is a plus