Senior Materials Expert Job in Veldhoven, Netherlands

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment.

Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life.

To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry.

ASML's guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment.

Senior Materials Expert Job Description

As a Senior Materials Expert you will get the responsibility to improve the Yieldstar capability to measure critical dimension on customer product wafers. Knowledge of the technical possibilities and its challenges will make you an expert on CD scatterometry. This knowledge enables you to find solutions for our customer metrology needs. Designing and developing solutions is part of your job as well as bring in your knowledge to influence the roadmap and therefore the choices for the next generation of Yieldstar CD Products.

Job Description:

The job consists of following activities: • 

• Build up and maintain relevant material database on n&K, incl. external & internal material characterization (i.e. YS measurements versus ellipsometer (Woolam))• 
• Build up the means and methods to store & maintain customer wafer at ASML, in line with confidential requirements defined by customers• 
• Support projects & field with relevant advise on specific layers• 
• Support the n&k specific part of the Yieldstar qualification test at ASML factory as well as Customer site qualification with (potential) customer specific substrates (matching against holy reference)• 
• Keep up state of the art know how about potential future materials in cooperation with device specialist within & outside ASML to define “material roadmap”• 
• Setup & maintain training program & train youngsters within & outside the team on material (n&k) aspects• lead & drive internal & external SW integration (n&k tooling database related)

• Within ASML the sector Development & Engineering is responsible for the specification and the design of the ASML products.
• The Product Group Applications provides integrated solutions with computational, metrology and control technology for extendibility and improved efficiency of lithography products.
• Within D&E Application the group CD (Critical Dimensions) applications covers the area of physics and mathematics development required to extract relevant metrics with required performance characteristics from the raw acquisitions, as well as the design, integration and test of new measurement functions enabling the necessary applications on and meeting the usability criteria of the metrology tool.

Senior Materials Expert Job Requirements

​Education:

• To qualify for this position you have a Master or PhD in Solid state physics

• You have >10 years' experience in thin film, material (optical) properties.
• Experience in the industry of semiconductor or photovoltaic)

• Drive to take lead in securing & coordinating deliverables.•
• Strong analytic capability; you should be able to analyze complex datasets to identify root causes of observed issues and transfer them into generic solutions.•
• Ability to translate new questions into technical requirements and potential solution space and generate the “helicopter view”.•
• Result oriented attitude; be able to work with set deadlines•
• Pragmatic approach and pro-active attitude •
• Affinity to see the solution working at the customer•
• Team player; you should be able to work efficiently in multifunctional teams•
• Strong communicator; able to convince and motivate others; clear and open communication toward team and stakeholders

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Contact Information: RC02777-QR-COM

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