First Line Support Production Engineer (Semiconductor Manufacturing)

Location: Wilton, Connecticut, United States; onsite work in the Wilton factory. Back End Nights shift: 6:00 PM–6:00 AM on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and every other Saturday. Occasional cleanroom work, off-hours/weekend coverage, and travel may be required. The role involves controlled technology governed by United States export regulations; candidates must be legally authorized to access it before starting.

Base annual salary range: $0–$0.

Company

hirify.global develops, integrates, markets, and services lithography machines used by leading semiconductor manufacturers to produce smaller and more powerful microchips.

What you will do

• Provide first-line engineering support for production interruptions and engineering disturbance notices.
• Work hands-on with opticians and technicians to troubleshoot, document, and resolve production-floor issues.
• Develop short-term containment actions and structural solutions for production problems.
• Evaluate failed parts, determine rework paths, and support production output through operator-dashboard engineering steps.
• Prepare failure reports, daily quality reports, manufacturing procedures, and technical work instructions.
• Support root-cause and cycle-time analysis and escalate structural process issues to the Production Engineering team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or in physics, materials science, mathematics, or chemical science.
• At least 1 year of production or manufacturing engineering experience; the posting also references 0–1 year in a high-tech production or manufacturing environment.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, ownership, adaptability, and teamwork skills.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical, electrical, and optical drawings.
• Ability to perform hands-on work, safely use cleaning solvents, work around chemicals, lasers, cranes, forklifts, ladders, platforms, and potentially strong magnetic fields and high voltage.
• Must be legally authorized to access United States-controlled technology before beginning work.

Nice to have

• Experience in optical fabrication or assembly, including etching, optical polishing, lithography processes, or optical contacting.
• Cleanroom manufacturing experience.
• Knowledge of statistical process control, PFMEA, Teamcenter, SAP, optical tolerancing, specifications, and Scratch-Dig requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and senior leadership.
• Work in a quality-focused, continuous-improvement environment.
• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• 401(k) plan, eight hours of vacation leave per month, and 13 paid holidays annually.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants and employees with disabilities.