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Newburyport, MA, USA
2026-05-20
Rochester Electronics
North America
Intern
Role Description
**About Rochester Electronics**
At Rochester Electronics, we create an excellent employee experience focused on value, performance, motivation, recognition, and career growth.
**General Summary**
The Manufacturing Intern may operate across a variety of areas, or specialize, in manufacturing and semiconductor assembly in support of the company’s products. Areas include, but are not limited to, assembly/process engineering, package engineering, wafer fab integration engineering, product engineering, test engineering, failure analysis, design engineering, quality engineering and reliability engineering.
This role is entry-level targeting internship candidates for a future in semiconductor fabrication.
**Responsibilities**
* Utilize computer-based manufacturing systems to record data
* Analyze/process data pursuant to project goals
* Organize documentation and department records
* Perform computer-aided design, process-flow, manufacturing setup, and other applicable software support
* Adjust, calibrate, align, or modify equipment and record effects on unit performance
* Complete paperwork associated with testing and troubleshooting
* Follow defined specifications and reaction paths in basic operation of equipment
* Execute instructions and perform experiments for improving performance
* Summarize learnings and provide verbal and written reports of results to stakeholders
* Maintain a well-organized and audit ready work areas
* Apply 6S, Six-Sigma, and LEAN concepts to practice
**Unit Specific Responsibilites**
**Failure Analysis**
* Understand and safely use physical, chemical, and electrical concepts surrounding semiconductor function and manufacturing
* Carry out analytical processes such as electrical verifications, chemical and physical de-processing, performing cross-sections, etc
* Conduct optical and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) on samples
**Assembly Engineering**
* Tasks related to semiconductor assembly engineering
**Packaging Engineering**
* Tasks related to AutoCAD semiconductor assembly drawings and packaging
**Automation \& Innovation**
* Tasks related to the automation of RE assembly processes
* Knowledge or interest in software coding and computer science helpful
**Planning or Project Management**
* Tasks related to workflow planning and organization
* Knowledge or interest in Python and Power BI helpful
**Reliability**
* Operate various environmental stress and reliability test equipment
* Record the results of a variety of environmental and mechanical sequence tests.
**Archives**
* Create traceability coding and renaming, data packs, and digitization to support the business
**Qualifications**
* A in-progress high school diploma or higher education is required
* The successful candidate should be interested in math, science, engineering, and/or semiconductor assembly, or a related field.
* Work with statistical methods or Statistical Process Control charts helpful, but not required
* Able to read, understand, and execute Standard Operating Procedures
* Skills
* Basic computer skills
* Ability to communicate verbally
* Pay close attention to detail
* As a Rochester employee it is expected that the individual represents, supports, and encourages the Rochester culture by adherence to work policies and practices set forth within the company