Principal Equipment Engineer

Boston Materials is seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Principal Equipment Engineer to lead the design, build, and commissioning of specialized production equipment used to manufacture our advanced materials. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of mechanical design, automation, and process engineering. You will be responsible for delivering highly automated, instrumented, and reliable custom machines that enable Boston Materials’ next-generation production capabilities. The role demands a seasoned engineer with a proven track record of taking complex system and machine designs from concept to production on tight schedules—balancing innovation, practicality, and attention to detail at every step.

Join us to solve one of the most critical challenges facing the Semiconductor and Electronics Industry – thermal management!

Your Responsibilities

• Design, build and commission production-grade equipment to automate novel manufacturing processes for advanced materials.
• Design and requisition mechanical machinery and components using CAD (SolidWorks preferred), ensuring design specifications are met, and manage design files, revisions, and workflows within a Product Data Management (PDM) system
• Integrate structure, safety systems, automation, HMI, sensing, data acquisition, SPC and health monitoring / alerting for precise manufacturing and high duty cycle operation.
• Starting from a problem statement, clarify and fully define requirements, develop a solution in collaboration with stakeholders; design, test and iterate to meet requirements, leading the project while drawing effectively on needed resources.
• Accurately estimate and regularly update timetables to ensure on-time delivery of new machine builds, and early resolution of timeline risks.
• Evaluate, downselect and validate subsystems and components, drawing on experience and industry best practice to maximize robustness and future expansion.
• Rapidly design and launch pilot-scale equipment for new process development.
• Respond to feedback and feature requests to improve workflow efficiency, quality and safety.
• Conspicuously exemplify high standards of safety, organization, communication and documentation.
• Mentor and oversee work of mechanical engineers and assembly technicians.
• Diagnose and resolve electrical and mechanical issues in assemblies and machinery. Collaborate with tech support and purchase necessary parts and equipment as needed.
• Operate machinery such as waterjets and mini-mills to fabricate parts as required for assemblies. Assist in general machining tasks as needed.