Director, Mechanical Engineering

About The Role

Problems You'll Solve

• Deliver systems with performance capabilities at micron-to-submicron precision, enabling high-volume, high-mix combinatorial manufacturing capability.
• Develop systems capable of executing novel manufacturing processes to meet cutting edge product requirements.
• Chart the roadmap from prototypes through qualification, repeatable machine builds and sustained operation supporting high-volume device production.
• Building cutting-edge machines for world-class fabrication processing.

Build, Own, Drive

• Build. You set the bar, run the interviews, shape the team structure, and grow the team to support our corporate needs and vision. You'll turn senior engineers into tech leads, tech leads into managers, and mold teams to run without you.
• Own. You hold responsibility for company outcomes. You oversee Node performance, throughput, reliability, and cost through direct architectural definition, technical leadership, and organizational scale-out. You establish engineering standards and drive root-cause problem solving using frameworks like DMAIC.
• Drive. You set priorities, allocate resources, and own delivery across your programs. You empower managers and technical leads, lead by example through tough technical problems, and tailor phase-gate processes to ensure production readiness.

How We Work

• Fast learning loops. In-house robotics labs and our shop and build team let you validate machine designs early and iterate within weeks. Our Hybrid Fab supports device and process validation using your equipment.
• First principles over opinions. We decide through analysis, experiments, and open technocratic debate.
• System in the loop. Your machines produce devices for customers, so your work gets tested by physics and by the market.
• Forecasts over predictions. We cannot predict the future with certainty, but we can update our priors with new evidence and revise our forecasts, accelerated by fast learning loops, driving us toward convergence between our forecasts and actuals.

What You'll Need

• Designing robotic systems from concept to production release.
• Optical systems design and manufacturing.
• High-vacuum systems, deposition equipment, or vacuum material handling.
• Fluid handling, dispensing, or electrochemical processing systems.

Ideally Your Background

• 15+ years developing complex integrated systems, including 7+ years managing engineering teams.
• Currently managing at least five people directly, with experience scaling a team toward 25, including managers and senior technical leads.
• A record of hiring top engineers, developing them into leads and managers, and growing them.
• Deep expertise in precision engineering, machine design, systems development, and the fundamentals to back it up.
• A record of delivering complete systems from concept through qualification, documentation, and sustained volume production.
• Experience turning ambiguous requirements and new process physics into working machines with customer stakeholders and process engineers.
• Operational leadership: guiding technical strategy, establishing engineering tools and processes, and mentoring managers.
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.