Senior Machine Control Software Engineer

at  Halo Industries Inc

THE COMPANY

Halo Industries has invented a technology to replace a decades-old semiconductor material slicing process that wastes billions of dollars annually.
Halo’s laser-based technology eliminates this waste, delivering improvements in both material cost and performance, while enabling manufacturing advancements in a diverse set of high-growth applications markets, including the automotive, grid infrastructure, telecommunications and power electronics sectors.
Halo originally spun out of Stanford University in 2014, acquiring a significant A round of VC funding in 2020 following the successful demonstration of the company’s precision material slicing equipment.
Halo is now planning its volume manufacturing operations and building a passionate team to meet its next milestone of deploying the company’s first fully integrated production line.
Halo Industries is well-funded, engaged with strategic customers, and staged to achieve rapid operational, revenue, and valuation growth.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Lead the design and development of operator control systems for production-line mechanical and opto-mechanical semiconductor manufacturing tools
• Define control standards to be implemented uniformly across the production line
• Evaluate and select industrial controller hardware (e.g. PC, PLC, embedded microcontroller)
• Write high level device drivers for robotics, motion control, lasers, and data acquisition
• Integrate custom and off-the-shelf device drivers into reliable, robust operator controllable state machines
• Develop easy-to-use operator graphical user interfaces
• Perform thorough testing and debugging from the system level down to the component level
• Maintain thorough documentation and version control
• Work closely with mechanical, electrical, system, and NPI engineers
• Implement Factory Automation features and operations

PREFERRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field with 5+ years of applicable experience
• Candidates with advanced degrees may qualify for a given position with fewer years of experience.

Please refer the Job description for details