Freeform
Design Engineer (Semiconductor Machinery Hardware)
About this role
Design Engineer at an AI-native manufacturing company focused on reimagining semiconductor machinery hardware through additive manufacturing. This role combines advanced mechanical engineering with semiconductor fabrication expertise to create novel part designs that leverage new manufacturing capabilities.
What you'll do
- Drive part design and redesign for semiconductor fabrication applications including wafer handling and robotic end-effectors
- Design thermal management hardware, high-precision cold plates, and ultra-high vacuum chamber components
- Develop gas delivery manifolds, high-purity fluid systems, and lithography tool structural components
- Evaluate manufacturability, materials, tolerances, and performance tradeoffs from first principles
- Collaborate with sophisticated semiconductor engineering teams to identify new design possibilities
- Identify performance regimes and geometries made possible by advanced manufacturing techniques
What they're looking for
- Mechanical engineering and part design
- Semiconductor fabrication machinery knowledge
- CAD and design software proficiency
- Materials science and tolerance analysis
- Thermal management and vacuum systems design
- Systems-level engineering reasoning
- Additive manufacturing design principles
- High-precision component design
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Freeform
Freeform builds autonomous metal 3D printing factories powered by AI-native manufacturing systems, creating integrated platforms that handle production-scale operations with advanced controls and physics-based optimization. The company is hiring embedded software engineers, full-stack software engineers, simulation engineers, and process engineers to develop the core software, hardware systems, and manufacturing processes enabling automated metal additive manufacturing at scale.
View all jobs at FreeformLikely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience designing parts for semiconductor fabrication equipment. What specific components or systems have you worked on, and what were the key performance constraints?
- Describe a time when you had to redesign a part from first principles. What legacy constraints did you eliminate, and how did you validate that your new design met all requirements?