Senior Vacuum Coating & Thin-Film R&D Engineer

NTI Nanofilm; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NTI Nanofilm, headquartered in Singapore, seeks an experienced engineer to develop and test vacuum coating machines and deposition sources. You will advance PVD/CVD processes, understand film properties, and translate customer requirements into practical machine configurations and recipes.

Responsibilities include integrating deposition sources, optimizing vacuum systems, and supporting technology transfer to production. Requires 5+ years in vacuum coating/thin-film deposition.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Physics, Chemistry, Electrical, Materials or related field).
• At least 5 years of experience in vacuum coating technology or thin-film deposition (PVD/CVD/sputtering).

Responsibilities

• Coating Machine Development: Develop and optimize vacuum thin-film coating machines with focus on vacuum systems and machine architecture.
• Deposition Source Development: Develop, integrate and optimize deposition/plasma sources including magnetron sputtering, FCVA, ICP sources, ion sources and CVD/PECVD.
• Thin-Film Process Development: Develop and optimize PVD/CVD coating processes and characterize film properties.
• Application & Customer Solution Development: Translate customer requirements into machine configurations and process recipes, support testing and tech transfer.

Skills

Vacuum systems understanding

Electrical/control systems

System integration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering

Tools

PVD equipment

CVD equipment

Sputtering equipment

Job description

NTI Nanofilm, headquartered in Singapore, seeks an experienced engineer to develop and test vacuum coating machines and deposition sources. You will advance PVD/CVD processes, understand film properties, and translate customer requirements into practical machine configurations and recipes.

Responsibilities include integrating deposition sources, optimizing vacuum systems, and supporting technology transfer to production. Requires 5+ years in vacuum coating/thin-film deposition.