Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Veeco · - MA - Waltham, MA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A senior manufacturing role at Veeco (industrial) in - MA - Waltham, MA. Support a concurrent engineering approach that strengthens collaboration between product development and manufacturing teams.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, FMEA, Control plans, CAPA, Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 9, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Massachusetts: typical posted base $100k–$150k.
Median of the low and high ends of 46 live postings that list pay, out of 89 manufacturing engineer openings in Massachusetts, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Massachusetts plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 88 other live manufacturing postings in Massachusetts.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (8+ vs 5+)
Typical $93k–$143k, from 38 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 55%
- Lean 52%
- Automation 48%
- Six Sigma 36%
- ✓ Root cause 35%
- ✓ New product launch 33%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Control plans, CAPA, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
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This plant: Veeco in - MA - Waltham
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Full description from VeecoAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
are incorporated before release.
- ✓Collaborate with engineering teams to proactively address manufacturing risks and reduce downstream ECO churn, rework, and production disruptions.
- ✓Influence design decisions through manufacturing expertise, risk analysis, and practical problem-solving.
- ✓Support a concurrent engineering approach that strengthens collaboration between product development and manufacturing teams.
Required Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree or Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- ✓At least 8 years of manufacturing engineering experience, or equivalent combination of advanced degree and experience.
- ✓Experience supporting complex electromechanical products in manufacturing, sustaining engineering, NPI, or production scale-up environments.
- ✓Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis experience in a manufacturing setting.
- ✓Experience with PFMEA, process validation, risk assessment, Control Plans, and manufacturing quality systems.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and technical decisions without direct authority.
- ✓Ability to operate independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Semiconductor capit
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About Veeco
You probably don’t realize it, but what we do at Veeco touches the lives of every person, every day. It’s a bold statement, but it’s true. From the smartphones in our pockets that access the world’s collective knowledge, to the cloud-based services where all that information lives, to high-speed wireless communication and computing power needed to drive artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, gaming and so much more, our technology is all around us.
We design, develop, manufacture, and service highly complex, cutting-edge machines used by our customers to create the essential devices that drive the digital age, connect the world, and improve the human experience. Along with the world’s leading technology companies, many of which are household names, we help solve their most difficult material science challenges, enabling technologies for a more connected, sustainable, and convenient world.
We’re looking for material difference-makers to join our growing team. Interested? Learn more at www.veeco.com/careers .
Overview
Help Build the Future of Semiconductor Manufacturing
Veeco is the world leader in Ion Beam Deposition Technology and we have been hard at work further advancing the technology to make a material difference in the success of our customers. Join Veeco and help bring the next-generation Ion Beam Deposition (IBD) platform from development into full-scale production. This is a unique opportunity to work on the world’s most advanced deposition tool that promises to revolutionize metal deposition for the semiconductor industry. This new technology will deliver a step function improvement for memory and logic devices. We are looking for motivated, intelligent, and dedicated engineers that can bring these sophisticated semiconductor systems to volume production.
As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer IV, you will play a key role in establishing the manufacturing process, designing the process and sequence that this complex system will follow from assembly, testing, and transportation. Working closely with hardware, Quality, Reliability, software, service, and manufacturing engineering teams, you'll drive manufacturing readiness initiatives, support PFMEA-based risk reduction efforts, and help transition traditional manufacturing methods to scalable modular build and test strategies.
This senior-level individual contributor role offers a unique opportunity not only to hone your technical skills but also lead a complex set of deliverables visible across the enterprise. You'll take point on complex manufacturing challenges, drive technical decisions through data and expertise, and help develop the processes, controls, and manufacturing systems required to deliver repeatable, high-quality products at scale.
If you enjoy solving complex technical problems, partnering with the smartest physicists and engineers in the industry, look no further, this is the job for you.
Our vast portfolio of products and patents supporting Ion Beam Deposition (IBD) will transform Veeco and the rest of the industry, and you will have the opportunity to play a key role. Please contact us, we'd love to hear from you.
Drive Manufacturing Readiness & Scale-Up
- •Support the transition of a next-generation semiconductor platform from product development into sustained production.
- •Develop and optimize manufacturing processes, assembly methods, test strategies, and production documentation.
- •Support implementation of modular build and modular test strategies that improve quality, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- •Identify and mitigate manufacturing risks associated with product commercialization and production ramp activities.
- •Drive continuous improvement initiatives that improve yield, throughput, quality, and manufacturability.
Partner Early with Design Engineering
- •Participate in design reviews and development discussions to ensure manufacturability, assembly, testability, and scalability
Solve Complex Manufacturing Challenges
- •Lead root cause investigations using 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, CAPA, and other structured problem-solving methodologies.
- •Support PFMEA activities, Control Plan development, process validation, and risk mitigation efforts.
- •Analyze manufacturing data and implement corrective actions that improve performance, reliability, and quality.
- •Take ownership of complex technical projects and manufacturing improvement initiatives.
What You'll Bring
