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Job Description

Advantest is looking for a Mechanical Engineer for our San Jose, California office, to design, develop and support mechanical solutions, for customers in the standard Semiconductor (CMOS) and Silicon Photonics (SiPh) design/development and manufacturing/testing ecosystems.

Responsibilities :

Provide mechanical design support, including 3D modeling of parts and assemblies as well as generating related drawings.

Contribute to the planning and execution of Design of Experiments (DOEs).

Prepare and deliver technical presentations covering design concepts, reviews and DOE.

Support planning and implementation of design validation and product qualification activities, which may involve hands-on tasks, such as prototype fabrication and testing.

Support product definition and structuring in the Advantest PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) system

Communicate effectively and timely, in an organized and structured fashion, using collaboration/communication tools like Teams/SharePoint/Jira/Confluence/Webex