Metrology Application Engineer

Nearfield Instruments; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Nearfield Instruments is seeking a technically skilled engineer to join our customer-facing metrology team in the Netherlands. You will bridge product development, onsite application services and sales to demonstrate AFM capabilities on customer wafers and contribute to R&D for future needs.

Requirements include a PhD or MSc in Physics, Mechatronics or related fields, experience with metrology tools in manufacturing, knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing, AFM interest, and coding experience

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc in Physics, Mechatronics, or related field.
• Experience with metrology tools in manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing.
• Interest or experience with atomic force microscopy (AFM).
• Proficiency in MATLAB, Python, or similar data-analysis languages.

Responsibilities

• Identify customer metrology needs with marketing and sales, and attend customer meetings.
• Demonstrate capabilities of our products on customer wafers and analyze data.
• Report and present findings to customers, highlighting metrology potential.
• Create measurement recipes in customer fabs and train engineers and operators.
• Collaborate with Development & Engineering and R&D to develop new measurement modes and data-processing methods.

Skills

AFM interest

MATLAB

Python

Data analysis

Communication

Education

PhD or MSc in Physics, Mechatronics, Materials Engineering or related

Tools

Metrology tools in manufacturing

Job description

Meet the complex metrology needs of the semiconductor industry in this customer-facing role at a rapidly growing scale-up.

About Nearfield Instruments

Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a fast-growing scale-up high-tech company. We design, develop, integrate, market and service advanced metrology machines. Our machines enables our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers – to increase the production yields, and thus, functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics.

Founded in 2016, we bring together the most creative minds (approx. 320 employees) in science and technology and develop a one-of-a-kind, revolutionary high throughput Scanning Probe Microscopy system.

What you're going to do

In your role, you will be bridging the gap between product development, onsite customer application services, and sales. Helping the world’s leading chipmakers stay in control of their manufacturing processes, you will convince them of the capabilities of our cutting-edge atomic force microscopy (AFM) systems, demonstrating them on customer wafers, and contribute to R&D to meet future needs.

Your responsibilities include:

• Identifying our customer's 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.
• 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.

Who you'll be working with

As a rapidly growing scale-up, we have no closely defined boundaries or hierarchy. We all work together to realise 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.

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 customer’s needs. You are prepared to occasionally work outside office hours, as you’ll 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:

• A PhD or MSc in Physics, Mechatronics, Material Engineering or another relevant subject.
• Experience in developing or using of metrology tools in a manufacturing environment.
• A good understanding of semiconductor manufacturing.
• 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.
• 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.

Recruitment, consultancy and/or other agency?

We appreciate the interest, but we source all our candidates directly. We understand that you as an intermediary want to present candidates to our interesting positions. This is not how we have structured our recruitment.

This means that all profiles offered to Nearfield Instruments will be treated as direct applications. Unless we have explicitly agreed otherwise.