What will you be doing?

As an Systems and Controls engineer you will be responsible for the modelling and development of controls of new and challenging measurement modes and techniques that allow NFI to comply with current and future customer demands. Your practical experience and skills in going from development to integration, testing and deployment allow you to improve the throughput, precision and reliability of our metrology solutions.

You will be part of a diverse research and development (R&D) team that brings together skills and expertise from different fields to allow for the development of SPM technology for some of the most demanding applications in the semiconductor industry. Together with application specialists, physics design engineers, mechanical engineers, electronic engineers and software engineers you will analyse and predict customer needs, translate these to system requirements, create conceptual designs, build or work on existing experimental setups to demonstrate feasibility of new aspects, and realize and experimentally characterize prototypes. As a Systems and Controls engineer, you will also be responsible for the execution of experiments and the implementation of ideas from other specialists within an SPM environment. Your skill and experience will allow you to assess the feasibility and difficulty of new design requests, come up with requirements for changes to the control architecture, execute alterations on test setups and perform measurements in a timely manner.

Moreover, you perform research on the latest developments in the field of advanced control methodologies to keep up to date with the current state of technology and recognize new opportunities to meet (future) demands of our customers. By performing literature reviews, internal reporting, and the filing of patents you contribute to the expansion and the strengthening of the knowledge leadership position of NFI in the field of controls and modelling as applicable to NFI systems.

Regarding our current products, you will be trusted to recommend design changes or substitution of materials when appropriate. You will also advise users of appropriate actions to correct malfunctions and may recommend changes in user procedures. In this role you will travel for about 5 percent of your time and you occasionally perform experiments and support customer demos outside office hours . You will report to the R&D Manager.