Hands-On Process Engineer, Microfabrication

RiseTech; San Martino di Lupari; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

You will work across electronics, chemistry and mechanics to ensure processes translate from a sample to a product. Fluency in English is required; Italian is a plus, and safety discipline is non-negotiable.

Qualifications

• Degree in Materials Science, Materials or Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• 3 to 7 years hands-on in a lab, pilot line or process production environment.
• Regular cleanroom experience, and at least one process you can honestly say you owned.
• Semiconductor process familiarity from direct experience: electrochemical deposition and plating are the closest fit; thin films, microfabrication, laser processing and advanced packaging are close enough.
• Data skill you can defend: distributions, variability, capability, DoE, in Python, R, JMP or Minitab.
• Fluent English, written and spoken. Italian is a plus.
• Judgment about safety: chemicals, lasers and cleanroom discipline are not negotiable.

Responsibilities

• Own process steps end to end. Sample preparation, wet and electrochemical processes, sample post-processing, inspection and metrology tools: you set the parameters, define the process window, and are the reference for all of them.
• Design experiments, not just run them. Build the test matrix and size it so the outcome will actually be conclusive — DoE and applied statistics rather than one factor at a time.
• Find root causes. When yield drops or a dimension drifts, take the problem apart methodically — data, equipment, material, method — instead of changing three things at once.
• Turn results into standards. Write the procedures and best-known methods that keep a process alive when you are not in the room.
• Own the equipment and what it costs. Qualification, maintenance planning and acceptance of new tools; the technical dialogue with suppliers; and the case for the tooling and consumables your processes need, inside the budget agreed.
• Work across the lab. With electronics, chemistry, mechanics and production, so that a process that works on a sample also works on a product.
• Bring the junior engineer and the technician up. Not a formal management line, the practical kind: at the bench, on the numbers, on the reasoning.

Skills

Hands-on

Data analysis

English fluency

Safety mindset

Curiosity

Education

Materials Science / Materials / Mechanical Eng.

Tools

Python

R

JMP

Minitab

Job description

You will work across electronics, chemistry and mechanics to ensure processes translate from a sample to a product. Fluency in English is required; Italian is a plus, and safety discipline is non-negotiable.