# Hamidreza Javani > Mechanical Engineering Manager, Automation Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/hamidreza Passionate and experienced mechanical engineer with solid background in engineering and technical leadership. Technical leading of large multidisciplinary (Mechanical, Analysis, Electrical, Control, etc.) engineering team. Component, assembly and system level mechanical and multiphysics (fluid, gas, electromagnetic, etc.) analysis. Multidisciplinary experiences including Architecting, reliability, availability, thermal management, servo performance, requirement management and etc. Broad experience in semiconductor industry (dealing with challenging requirements of nanometer accurate positioning stages/sensors that require a comprehensive understanding of robotics, precision mechanics, servo motors, electro mechanical, dynamic, vibration, thermal, etc.). Solid experience in design tradeoffs, concept design and managing competing requirements (both component and assembly optimization). Knowledgeable in complete product life-cycle including tooling, manufacturing techniques (metal, glass/ceramics and plastic fabrications process), etc. and effective utilization of that insight to propose design improvement based on practical considerations (cost, lead time, manufacturability, etc.). Adhesive properties and modeling, designing adhesive bonds, testing, etc. Proficiency in a large variety of engineering/programming packages including Ansys, Ansys APDL, Comsol, Altair, Creo, Ansys Icepak, NX Unigraphics, NX advanced simulation, Hyper mesh/HyperView, Optistruct, Teamcenter, Abaqus, MSC Marc, AutoCAD, Inventor, Star-CCM+, Matlab, SolidWorks, etc. ## Work Experience ### Mechanical Engineering Manager, Automation @ Tesla Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States Leading a cross-disciplinary team of mechanical, robotics and automation engineers at Tesla, I architect and deliver robotic test systems from concept to first build. Starting from a blank page, we design, analyze, and fabricate custom equipment—integrating sensors, servos, pneumatics, and controls—then validate and fine-tune the system for production release. ### Engineering Manager, Instrumentation Product Design @ Apple Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 ### Manager and Technical Lead - Metrology Hardware Development @ Apple Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Cupertino, California, United States • Managed the development of a robotic system used to pick and place DUT for metrology purposes. • Led a multidisciplinary engineering team to define requirements, select vendor, design architecture, perform sensor DOE, develop metrology process and etc. for an optical metrology machine. A few examples of current/past activities include: • Managing multidisciplinary teams of mechanical, optical metrology, software, etc. engineering. Recruiting new team member, conducting performance review, career development, design review, etc. • Technical project management, vendor selection, budgeting, defining requirements, developing new technologies, technical leading of internal/external teams, architecting new design (sensor/stage selection, optical, etc.). • Creating roadmap, people management, Metrology System Analysis, data analysis, etc. • Conducting design review meeting for mechanical, optomechanical and software compositions. ### Technical Lead - Metrology Equipment Development @ Apple Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Functional Architect (mechanical systems engineering) @ ASML Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 • Technical leading of a large multidisciplinary engineering team consisting of Mechanical, Analysis, Control, etc. towards designing, manufacturing and testing a complex module for next generation advanced Lithography machine. • Defining, clarifying, and documenting hardware design requirements; performing the necessary parametric analysis and tradeoffs; design the architect layout and sub-assemblies (product architecture); organizing product design reviews and brainstorming to mitigate high impact risks; vender management, building relationship with multidisciplinary and teams. • Performing (and/or coaching) critical Multiphysics analysis (structural, thermo-mechanical, fluid, gas, etc.) to verify top-level system performance. Working with cross-functional teams to validate mechanical design, simulations, testing, identifying risks. Proposing simple and effective physics-based modeling to characterize complex system behavior. • Leveraging quantitative approaches and knowledge of analysis, reliability, prototyping, empirical testing, mechanical design, manufacturing considerations (supply chain, etc.), in order to assess the technical feasibility of various solutions. ### Senior mechanical architect (mechanical analysis/design) @ ASML Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area • Senior Architect responsible for analysis and detail design of complex components, sub-assembly, technical guidance of senior and junior analyst, coaching mechanical designers. • handled customer escalations (customer support) by problem analyzing, root cause analysis, solution development, analysis/design team forming and team target setting, brainstorming, implementing and daily monitoring of the progress. • Performed challenging analysis including Ceramic Lifetime/fast fracture, Rarefied gas flow, system-level thermal management, nanometer-level mechanical/thermo-mechanical induced overlay error, data-driven approach for troubleshooting component/module problems. ### Senior Design Engineer (Mechanical Analysis) @ ASML Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area • Senior Analyst responsible for coaching junior and senior analysts, design improvement, and design optimization. • Worked on modeling of structural vibration, thermal management, adhesive properties, composite materials, polymers, damping, dynamic loadings and harmonic response analysis, random vibration, seismic analysis. • Developed test method for material/design characterization (rubber viscoelasticity, Hyperelastic, material, frequency-dependent damping) ### Mechanical Analyst @ ASML Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 • Mechanical analysis of wafer positioning stage: o Stress and Fatigue analysis including stress life, strain life, low cycle, and high cycle. • Thermal and thermomechanical modeling of structures. • 3D modeling of fracture (ANSYS). • Fluid-Structure Interaction modeling (COMSOL, ANSYS APDL): o Developed a Numerical methodology (FEM) for modeling 3D interaction between the pressurized thin film and solid structure in an air bearing design. • Stiffness/Modal/Thermal analysis of structures. • Air bearing competence leader. ### Postdoctoral Researcher @ Eindhoven University of Technology Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 • Developed a 3D FEM of fully coupled overlapping domain method for FSI problems. • Baumann & Oden (stabilized) coupling on fluid-fluid interface. • Studied artificial heart valves damage through modeling. ### FEA Expert @ Product and Process development of Philips Research Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | High Tech Campus, Eindhoven • Implementation and validation of a locking free large deformation elastic-plastic damage Tetrahedral element in MSC-MARC ### PhD Researcher @ Materials innovation institute M2i Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 • Non-linear finite element modelling of non-local damage (developing locking free element for large deformation elastic-plastic damage problems) • Developing remeshing and transfer schemes for elastic-plastic damage materials in three dimensional problems • Three dimensional mesh simplification for coarsening 3D complex surfaces (computational geometry) • Three dimensional damage driven crack initiation-propagation in large strain settings for ductile fracture ### Internship @ Tata Steel Europe Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Ijmuiden • Finite element modelling of Invertube (car crash component) using Gurson damage model. ### Mechanical Engineer @ Isfahan science technology town Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 • Research and Design of an automated spot welding machine • Investigation of gas detector sensor for detecting CH4 • Design, Finite element analysis and manufacturing of an innovative deep drawing die for car brake component • One of the founder and member of Non-destructive consulting company ### Lecturer @ Azad University (IAU)- دانشگاه آزاد Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 • Teaching Hydraulic & Pneumatic, Azad University of Majlesi, Isfahan, Iran (2005) • Engineering Drawing & CAD/CAM, Azad University of Majlesi, Isfahan, Iran (2004) ### Manufacturing Engineer @ Machine Ajza Co. Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 • Detail assembly drawings of heavy steel structures • Project manager in structural components manufacturing ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mechanical Engineering (Mechanics of Materials) Eindhoven University of Technology ### Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing Division) Isfahan University of Technology ### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing Division) Isfahan University of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hamid-javani --- Source: https://flows.cv/hamidreza JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/hamidreza/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13