Mechanical Engineer Manager

You'll be joining the WETS Product Group, a highly collaborative, crossdisciplinary organization within Lam's Global Products Group (GPG), focused on delivering industryleading wet processing solutions for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The WETS organization develops liquidbased process equipment supporting both wafer and panellevel applications, with strong emphasis on new product introduction (NPI), technology differentiation, and manufacturing scalability.

Our teams work closely across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, systems, and process engineering-partnering globally to bring complex, highperformance tools from concept through production while meeting aggressive cost, schedule, and quality targets.

As a Mechanical Engineering Manager - New Product Development (NPI) in the WETS Product Group, you will play a critical leadership role in delivering nextgeneration wet processing tools from early concept through production release. Your work will directly impact product performance, reliability, cost, and manufacturability-enabling Lam to meet customer commitments and maintain technology leadership in advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

In this role, you will lead and develop a team of mechanical engineers responsible for designing complex subsystems and assemblies, while partnering closely with Systems, Process, Electrical, Controls, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Program Management. You will balance technical depth with execution rigor, ensuring mechanical designs meet requirements, integrate cleanly at the system level, and are delivered on time through the NPI lifecycle.

This is a highvisibility role where your technical leadership, people development, and execution discipline will materially influence program success and team capability.

Lead Mechanical NPI Execution

• Lead mechanical engineering execution for one or more NPI programs, from concept and architecture through qualification, release, and production ramp.
• Own mechanical deliverables across all NPI phase gates (PreDR, DDR, CDR, FDR), ensuring scope, quality, and schedule commitments are met.
• Drive strong technical decisionmaking, risk management, and tradeoff analysis throughout development.

Manage and Develop Engineering Talent

• Directly manage, mentor, and develop a team of mechanical engineers, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and growth.
• Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support career development aligned with Lam engineering standards.
• Build team capability in areas such as DFx, tolerance management, reliability, and system integration.

Own Mechanical Design Quality and Integration

• Ensure mechanical designs meet functional, performance, reliability, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Review and approve mechanical architectures, layouts, drawings, and BOM structures.
• Partner with Systems Engineering to ensure clean subsystem interfaces, proper margin allocation, and successful systemlevel integration.

Drive DFx, Cost, and Manufacturability

• Ensure designs meet DFx objectives including reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, safety, and cost.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, and Operations to enable smooth transition from development to production.
• Drive cost reduction, part standardization, and supplychain robustness without compromising performance.

CrossFunctional Leadership

• Collaborate closely with Program Management, Product Management, Systems, Process, Electrical, Controls, and Software teams.
• Communicate technical status, risks, and mitigation plans clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
• Influence across disciplines and organizations to drive alignment and execution, often without direct authority.

Risk Management and Validation

• Own or support mechanical FMEAs, risk assessments, and corrective action plans.
• Ensure appropriate mechanical validation, qualification, and failure analysis are executed and documented.
• Support systemlevel debug, integration, and field issue resolution as required.

Who You Are
You are a handson engineering leader who enjoys developing people while staying deeply engaged in technical execution. You thrive in fastpaced NPI environments, are comfortable managing ambiguity, and know how to balance technical rigor with schedule and business realities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline with 8+ years of experience, including people or technical leadership roles, or
• Master's degree with 6+ years of experience, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong background in mechanical design of complex electromechanical systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading mechanical design through NPI phase gates.
• Experience managing engineers and delivering results through crossfunctional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to prioritize, manage risk, and execute in a highaccountability environment.

• Experience with semiconductor manufacturing equipment, particularly wet processing or fluidintensive systems.
• Strong understanding of DFMEA, tolerance analysis, thermalmechanical design, and reliability engineering.
• Experience supporting production ramp, sustaining engineering, and field issue resolution.
• Familiarity with Lam NPI processes, EPLs, and phasegate development models.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and building highperforming technical teams.
• Exposure to cost modeling, supplier engagement, and global manufacturing environments.