Manufacturing Test Engineer II - (E2)

About the job

General Profile

The Manufacturing Test Engineer is responsible for developing, deploying, sustaining, and improving production test solutions used to verify product quality and performance. This role owns manufacturing test procedures, automated test scripting, product-to-test-system interfaces, and test fixture development while partnering with Central Test Engineering, Product Engineering, Quality, and Operations to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing execution.

Key Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and optimize manufacturing test procedures and production test scripts used to validate product performance and quality.

Translate product requirements into robust manufacturing test solutions by defining test sequences, pass/fail criteria, and production test methodologies.

Design, specify, source, validate, and sustain test fixtures, adapters, cabling, and tooling required to interface products with manufacturing test systems.

Collaborate with Central Test Engineering to integrate product-specific test requirements into standardized test platforms and ensure successful deployment to production. Maintain overall test platform knowledge to provide feedback, design change requests, and repair requests to Central Test Engineering.

Write, debug, and maintain automated test scripts and software routines used in production test environments.

Troubleshoot test software, hardware, fixture, and process-related issues using structured root cause analysis methodologies.

Analyze manufacturing and test data to identify trends, improve first-pass yield, reduce test escapes, and increase equipment uptime and throughput.

Support new product introductions by developing and validating production-ready test processes and fixtures.

Partner with Design Engineering, Product Engineering, Quality Engineering, Software Engineering, and Operations to improve product testability and manufacturing performance.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, cycle time, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Train and mentor technicians and manufacturing personnel on test procedures, test equipment operation, troubleshooting techniques, and best practices.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Skills

Certifications:

Languages:

Years of Experience:

2 - 4 Years

Work Experience:

Additional Information

Shift:

10-Day 8-Hr (United States of America)

Travel:

Yes, 20% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

Yes

Referral Payment Plan:

Employee Referral (Standard)

Salary Range:

$78,500.00 - $108,000.00

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.