Metrology Application Engineer - USA

Nearfield Instruments B.V

Portland, OR

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Adobe Acrobat, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Communication Skills, Customer Relations, Customer Support/Service, Customer/Client Research, Data Analysis, Data Processing, Data Visualization, Diversity, Emerging Technology, High Throughput, Integrated Circuits (ICs), JPEG, MATLAB, Manufacturing, Manufacturing/Industrial Processes, Marketing, Materials Engineering, Mentoring, Metrology, Microscopy, Onboarding, PNG, Physics, Problem Solving Skills, Process Control Engineering, Product Demonstration, Product Development, Programming Tools, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Recipe Development, Research & Development (R&D), Sales, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Software Engineering, Testing, Time Management, Training/Teaching, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)
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Portland, OR
POSTED
30+ days ago

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Meet the complex metrology needs of the semiconductor industry in this customer-facing role at a rapidly growing scale-up. Chips are shrinking, becoming increasingly powerful and complex. But as a result, currently used metrology systems in the semiconductor industry no longer meet process control requirements. Nearfield Instruments offers the solution in terms of speed, precision, and the capability of measuring the very latest, most complex 3D nanostructures. As a metrology application engineer, you will play a key role in identifying and meeting each customers metrology needs. Would you like to collaborate with the worlds leading chipmakers and get to see the results of your work in practice? Were growing, hiring.

What youre going to do?

In your role, you will help the customer get the most out of our products and represent the voice of the customer towards the central teams. You will assist the worlds leading chipmakers stay in control of their manufacturing processes by demonstrating the capabilities of our cutting-edge atomic force microscopy (AFM) systems on customer wafers. Your input will also contribute to R&D to meet future needs of our customers.

Your responsibilities include:

• Identifying our customers metrology needs, for which you will work closely with marketing and sales colleagues and attend meetings with customers. • Demonstrating the capabilities of our products, performing measurements on customer wafers, and analyzing the data generated. • Reporting and presenting your findings to our customers, showing the unique potential of our systems. • Creating measurement recipes in the customer fab, working closely with the customer. • You will also conduct tests to ensure that specifications are met and train the engineers and operators of our customers. • Taking lead to specify and investigate issues related to measurement and data processing, in collaboration with Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, and Development & Engineering colleagues to drive for issue resolution timely. • Working closely with colleagues in Development & Engineering and R&D to develop new measurement modes and metrology solutions, data processing algorithms, and improve user-friendliness and product performance. You will provide input based on your insights into our customers roadmaps, user experiences, and needs. • Demonstrating a customer-oriented attitude while performing responsibilities stated above.

Who Youll Be Working With

As a rapidly growing scale-up, we have no closely defined boundaries or hierarchy. We all work together to realize Nearfield Instruments growth strategy. What connects us is a drive to develop and build deeptech metrology solutions, enabling 5G connectivity, AI, autonomous mobility, and so much more. As an international team, we have different cultural backgrounds, which is why diversity and inclusion come naturally to us. Our combined identities and ambitions enrich our culture and make up our strength. We encourage you to be authentic and empower you to grow your role and career in an open, friendly, and supportive atmosphere.

What Youll Get

At Nearfield Instruments, youll be joining the most creative minds in science and technology from all over the world. We share a drive and have the potential to become the leading metrology instruments manufacturer. This is your chance to visibly contribute to growing our company and building revolutionary machines for the global semiconductor industry. The benefits we offer include:

  • A salary matching your skills, expertise, and experience;
  • Benefits like a good pension scheme, health insurance, and other benefits;
  • An engaging onboarding programme and a buddy to mentor you, so you can start with confidence;
  • Unrivalled on-the-job training as youll be working with the industrys top scientists, developing technology that doesnt yet exist. And lots of opportunities to grow your career at our rapidly growing scale-up;
  • An employer who has a diverse and inclusive culture. People from over thirty countries inspire, care for, and support each other. We encourage you to be or become who and what you want to be;
  • An open and transparent working environment: we listen to you and empower you to take initiative and get the job done in the way that works best for you;
  • A community that loves working at our high-tech facilities. Because thats where we connect at a professional and a personal level, learning and growing together;
  • A fun place to be.

Job requirements

Who You Are

You thrive on working as an engineer in a customer-facing role at a deeptech scale-up, where interdisciplinary collaboration is crucial. Leveraging your communication skills, you effortlessly interact with customers and colleagues to secure the best possible metrology solutions for each customers needs. You are prepared to occasionally work outside office hours, as youll be sharing our demo and product development tool. Suffice to say this flexibility is reciprocated, as part of our drive to support your work-life balance. You also have:

• Experience in developing or using of metrology tools in a manufacturing environment. • Experience in collaborating directly with customers. Experience of working with or as semiconductor foundry customers is a plus. • Experience or a keen interest in atomic force microscopy. • Your ability to learn quickly will help you bridge any gaps you may have in your knowledge and skills. • A PhD or MSc in Physics, Mechatronics, Material Engineering, or another relevant subject. • A good understanding of semiconductor manufacturing. • Experience in coding in MATLAB, Python, or other relevant languages for data analysis and visualisation geared to improving communication with clients and colleagues. Experience of algorithm development is a plus.

Who We Are

At Nearfield Instruments, we develop, integrate, market, and service advanced 3D metrology solutions, tackling the process control challenges in the nano industry. Its our high-throughput QUADRA with four mini atomic force microscopes that helps the worlds leading chipmakers assure the quality and increase production of increasingly smaller, complex, and powerful IC devices. Our daringly innovative, atom-scale systems offer solutions for next-gen chips, the latest technologies such as hybrid bonding, and even the most critical layers, including gate-all-around transistors. Being a scale-up founded in 2016, we now employ more than 200 of the most creative minds in science and technology.

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