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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 customer’s metrology needs. Would you like to collaborate with the world’s leading chipmakers and get to see the results of your work in practice? We’re growing hiring.\nWhat you’re going to do?\nIn your role, you will help the customer get the most out of our products and represent the voice of the customer towards to the central teams. You will assist the world’s 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.\nYour responsibilities include:\nIdentifying our customer’s metrology needs, for which you will work closely with marketing and sales colleagues and attend meetings with customers;\n\nDemonstrating the capabilities of our products, performing measurements on customer wafers, and analysing the data generated;\n\nReporting and presenting your findings to our customers, showing the unique potential of our systems;\n\nCreating 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;\n\nTaking 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;\n\nWorking 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;\n\nDemonstrating customer-oriented attitude while performing responsibilities stated above.\n\nWho you’ll be working with\nAs 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.\nWhat you’ll get\nAt Nearfield Instruments, you’ll 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:\nA salary matching your skills, expertise and experience.\nBenefits like a good pension scheme, health insurance and other benefits.\nAn engaging onboarding programme and a buddy to mentor you, so you can start with confidence.\nUnrivalled on-the-job training as you’ll be working with the industry’s top scientists, developing technology that doesn’t yet exist. And lots of opportunities to grow your career at our rapidly growing scale-up.\nAn 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.\nAn 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.\nA community that loves working at our high-tech facilities. Because that’s where we connect at a professional and a personal level, learning and growing together.\nA fun place to be.\nRequirements\nWho you are\nYou 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.\nYou also have:\nExperience in developing or using of metrology tools in a manufacturing environment;\n\nExperience in collaborating directly with customers. Experience of working with or as semiconductor foundry customers is a plus;\n\nExperience 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;\n\nA PhD or MSc in Physics, Mechatronics, Material Engineering or another relevant subject;\n\nA good understanding of semiconductor manufacturing;\n\nExperience in coding in MATLAB, Python or other relevant languages for data analysis and visualisation geared to improving communication with clients and colleagues;\n\nExperience of algorithm development is a plus.\n\nWho we are\nAt Nearfield Instruments, we develop, integrate, market and service advanced 3D metrology solutions, tackling the process control challenges in the nano industry. It’s our high-throughput QUADRA with four mini atomic force microscopes that helps the world’s 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.\nLearn more about Nearfield Instruments\nApply for the job\nDo you want to join our team as our new Field Applications Engineer Hsinchu, Taiwan? Then we'd love to hear about you!\nApply now! If this role has sparked your interest, we’d love to hear from you and get to know you. 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