Senior Equipment Automation Engineer


Posted on: 6 Nov 2025
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Position Summary

Are you a driven individual passionate about disruptive technologies and driving cost reduction and business growth in the Semiconductor industry? Join us as a Senior Equipment Automation Engineer at Alpha X Technology, where you'll play a pivotal role in design, development, testing and implementation of the tailored AI driven digitalization and automation solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Contribute to Equipment Automation System (EAS) Implementation: -

  • Gathering details of client’s factory automation requirement and document

  • Generate Equipment Driver – including Equipment SECS/GEM documentation study, define related protocol Stream and Functions, conduct equipment characterization

  • Design and finalize the equipment automation scenario, construct event flow diagram and communicate with client for final buyoff. These include linkage with MES, EAP Operators and other peripheral/application (e.g. RFID reader, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Recipe Management System (RMS) etc.)

  • EAS Development, and Integration testing with Equipment simulation

  • Final acceptance test with Equipment guided with Test plan finalized and approved.

  • Hardware architecture design, setup and configuration for EAS project implementation.

  • Coordinate and interaction with both external & internal parties including IT department, users and equipment vendors.

  • Troubleshoot and fix automation software and interface problems.

  • Involve in EAS core modules enhancement and development

  • Involve/conducting DEMO of EAS product to customer

  • Perform any ad-hoc duties assigned by the Company as and when required.

 Qualifications & Skills

  • Degree in Electronics, Mechanical Engineering or any equivalent discipline.

  • Min. 5 years of related working experience in semiconductor or solar industry.

  • Proven experience in equipment integration and automation development, and Semiconductor Automation standards such as SECS/GEM protocol (e.g. E30, E37, GEM300, and SEMI PV2)

  • Knowledgeable of C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, Java, CORBA, Windows MFC Application development.

  • Understand factory automation technology and familiar with various semiconductor equipment types.

  • Proven experience in working with cleanroom automated equipment, knowledgeable cleanroom work environment and requirements.

Preferred / Additional

  • Knowledgeable of relational database especially Oracle and DB2.

  • Good knowledge of Industry 4.0 and IOT.

  • Good communication and documentation skills in English.

  • Fluency in Mandarin essential for effective communication with Mandarin-speaking stakeholders.

  • Willingness to travel as needed.

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