Senior Machine Design Engineer, Custom Production Equipment

Sydney | Full time | Hybrid | $110k to $150k + 12% super + equity
Relocation and visa support available for the right person

The Mission

Some engineers design parts.

Some engineers deliver machines.

This role is for the second type.

You’ll take ownership of custom production equipment from requirements capture through design, build, FAT, SAT, commissioning, handover and stable operation.

The machines are high-precision, multidisciplinary and built for semiconductor manufacturing. Mechanical structure, pneumatics, electrical systems, controls, safety, vision, motion and operator reality all matter.

What You’ll Work On

• Own the full machine lifecycle from concept to stable production
• Capture requirements and turn them into a machine design specification
• Lead mechanical structure, electrical/pneumatic systems, controls architecture and safety systems
• Specify motion systems, sensors, actuators, frames, enclosures, PLCs, HMIs and vision systems
• Produce complete documentation packages across drawings, schematics, BOMs and manuals
• Coordinate internal fabrication, vendors, build, system integration and commissioning
• Walk machines through FAT, SAT and production handover
• Work with production, process and quality teams on throughput, yield and uptime
• Implement safeguards, risk assessments and machine safety requirements
• Support post-deployment iteration and knowledge transfer to operations and maintenance teams

What Matters Here

• 8+ years designing and delivering custom manufacturing or automation equipment
• Strong mechanical design across structures, mechanisms, pneumatics and tolerancing
• 3D CAD experience, such as SolidWorks, Inventor, CATIA or Fusion 360
• Electrical and controls integration experience
• Panel design, motor/drive selection and PLC/HMI fluency, or close collaboration with controls engineers
• Direct commissioning and production handover experience
• FAT, SAT and stable operation experience
• Machine safety standards such as ISO 13849, IEC 62061 or AS 4024
• Cross-disciplinary confidence across mechanical, electrical, controls, production and quality

Nice to Have

• PCB-related equipment experience, including handlers, testers, dispensers, pick-and-place or laser systems
• EPLAN or AutoCAD Electrical
• Beckhoff TwinCAT, Siemens TIA Portal or Allen-Bradley
• Cognex, Keyence or other vision systems
• SISTEMA or similar machine safety calculation tools
• SolidWorks PDM, Vault or other PDM/PLM tools

Why This Role Is Different

This is not a narrow design-office role.

It is blank page to production floor.

You’ll be the person who can see the whole machine, spot the trade-offs early and keep the build moving when mechanical, electrical, controls, safety and production all start pulling in different directions.

Interested to hear more? Apply direct to set up a conversation.

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Equipment

Sydney | Full time | Hybrid | $110k to $150k + super + meaningful equity
Relocation and visa support available for the right person

The Mission

Can you take a machine from idea to production-ready hardware?

Not a product part. Not a bracket. Not a polished CAD model.

A full manufacturing machine.

This role owns the mechanical design backbone of custom semiconductor manufacturing equipment, from early concept through detailed design, prototyping, validation, commissioning and production release.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead mechanical design for custom manufacturing equipment
• Take machine concepts through CAD, drawings, BOMs, build and production release
• Design mechanisms, structures, pneumatic systems, motion assemblies and precision subsystems
• Apply DFM and DFA thinking before manufacturing problems become expensive
• Conduct tolerance analysis, FEA and engineering analysis where required
• Select materials, components, suppliers and vendors for mechanical subsystems
• Support prototyping, commissioning and continuous improvement of equipment
• Work with controls, mechatronics and software engineers on fully integrated machine solutions
• Help define mechanical design standards, documentation and workflows
• Reduce reliance on external vendors by building deeper in-house equipment capability

What Matters Here

• 7+ years mechanical engineering experience
• 4+ years focused on manufacturing equipment, automation equipment or machine design
• Proven experience taking machines from concept to production-ready equipment
• Strong 3D CAD skills, ideally SolidWorks, Inventor or similar
• Strong understanding of mechanisms, pneumatics, motion systems and structural design
• GD&T, tolerance stack-ups and engineering drawings
• Precision prototyping and manufacturing process experience
• Cross-functional confidence with controls, mechatronics, software and production teams
• Semiconductor or chip manufacturing equipment experience would be a major plus

Nice to Have

• FEA and tolerance analysis tools
• PLM, JIRA or Confluence
• Startup or fast-paced engineering environment experience
• Experience setting engineering standards in a team that is still maturing

Why This Role Is Different

This is mechanical engineering for machines that make the technology possible.

The work is not just “design it”.

It is design it, build it, commission it, improve it and make sure it survives contact with the production floor.

Interested to hear more? Apply direct to set up a conversation.

Senior Mechatronics Engineer, Controls & Electronics

Sydney | Full time | Hybrid | $110k to $150k + super + meaningful equity
Relocation and visa support available for the right person

The Mission

What happens when semiconductor tooling needs to get smarter, faster and more repeatable?

You build the controls layer properly.

This role sits across electronics, controls, automation software and the physical machine. Not pure software. Not generic industrial controls. Real equipment, real sensors, real actuators, real commissioning pain.

You’ll help build advanced manufacturing tools for next-generation semiconductor packaging, where precision, uptime and integration matter from day one.

What You’ll Work On

• Design and implement control systems for advanced manufacturing equipment
• Specify sensors, actuators, motors, drives, controllers and electrical components
• Develop embedded software, firmware and PLC programs for machine automation
• Work across motion control, servo drives, actuators and machine-level electronics
• Create electrical schematics, wiring diagrams and control panel layouts
• Commission, test and debug complex electromechanical systems
• Troubleshoot hardware, software and integration issues across the full machine
• Develop machine safety systems and support relevant safety standards
• Help establish controls, electronics and automation standards for a scaling team
• Work closely with mechanical, software and systems engineers to deliver integrated tools

What Matters Here

• 7+ years in mechatronics, controls engineering, automation or similar
• Strong PLC programming and motion control experience
• Embedded C/C++ or Python experience
• Familiarity with protocols like EtherCAT, Modbus or OPC-UA
• Electrical design experience across schematics, panels and wiring diagrams
• Solid mechanical fluency, enough to integrate across the actual machine
• Experience commissioning complex electromechanical equipment
• Semiconductor equipment, precision manufacturing, robotics or industrial automation experience
• Startup appetite without startup chaos tolerance being mistaken for lack of standards

Nice to Have

• MATLAB or Simulink
• ISO 13849 or IEC 62443 exposure
• Semiconductor tooling or fab equipment experience
• Experience building automation standards from scratch

Why This Role Is Different

This is not controls work in a plant that already knows what it is.

This is controls work where the machine, the process and the company are all scaling together.

You’ll be close to the hardware, close to the product and close to the decisions that shape how the tooling platform grows.

Interested to hear more? Apply direct to set up a conversation.