Designs, builds, installs, and validates hardware upgrades for pilot manufacturing equipment. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, mechanical design, tolerancing, materials and vendor selection, prototyping, fabrication, equipment-floor troubleshooting, validation, documentation, and root-cause analysis. Collaborates with equipment, maintenance, manufacturing, R&D, quality, and EHS teams to improve reliability, uptime, safety, throughput, and process repeatability.

Leads development, optimization, troubleshooting, and scale-up of sputtering and thin-film manufacturing processes for solid-state microbatteries. Establishes process windows, conducts DOE and root-cause analysis, improves yield and repeatability, integrates deposition with cell manufacturing, transfers processes from R&D to production, supports equipment qualification, and provides technical leadership and mentorship across engineering and manufacturing teams.