What will you be doing?

As an Acoustic Research Engineer you will be responsible for the development of our next generation metrology solutions for the semiconductor industry. You will be responsible for concept evaluations, design of acoustic metrology systems as applicable to NFI, lead development, integration and testing of PoC setups that allow NFI to develop metrology solutions to comply with future customer demands. Your practical experience and skills in developing novel acoustic metrology technologies allow you to define and build challenging SPM metrology ssystems successfully.

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 analyze and predict customer needs, translate these to system requirements, create conceptual designs and build experimental setups to demonstrate feasibility of new aspects, and realize and experimentally characterize prototypes.

Moreover, you perform research on the latest developments in the field of acoustic imaging 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 SPM.

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.