Principal Software Engineer

ASML • San Jose, CA

1d • $223,125 - $334,688 • Hybrid

About The Position

ASML US brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. ASML Brion is the worldwide leader in computational lithography for integrated circuit Lithography-Driven Design and Manufacturing™. ASML Brion’s Tachyon™ platform, a highly accurate and ultra-fast OPC and OPC verification system, enables a unique set of capabilities that address the interrelated challenges of design, photomask making and wafer printing for semiconductor manufacturing. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, ASML leads the worldwide market for OPC verification, and is rapidly expanding in the OPC market. ASML Brion is seeking highly talented individuals to join our innovative team to accelerate our leadership in delivering Computational Lithography-Driven Design and Manufacturing solutions to our customers. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler Arizona, San Jose and San Diego California, Wilton Connecticut, and Hillsboro Oregon.

Requirements

• M.S, and above in electrical engineering, physics, chemical engineering, IC manufacturing or process technology related field
• Have >15 years semiconductor computational Lithography application experiences.
• product requirement analysis, system design, function development and customer promotion.
• Knowledge of Advanced DUV process and NXE/EXE scanners.
• Optical physics (especially Fourier optics, EM theory), resist chemistry or etch mechanism.
• Experiences of OPC (Optical Proximity Correction)recipe tuning, OPC tape out flow, ILT (Inverse Lithography Technology), resolution and process window enhancement, Computational geometrics principles.
• Strong customer focus and sense of business urgency.
• Be able to handle multiple tasks with proper prioritization.
• Interact with customers to gain understanding of their technical requirements and effectively translate these requirements onto new product and system capabilities.
• Ability to work independently and also effectively as a member of a team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, in a multi-cultural environment
• Strong problem solving and innovative thinking skills
• Quick learner and flexibility

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing processes, scanners and metrology tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Product engineer owns application technical spec requirements and functional design for new product, integrate solutions with best practice and automation to maximize their value in different customer environments, and 2nd line product support.
• Analysis issue data to identify problems, conduct new product feasibility studies.
• Perform acceptance tests of the new products.
• Collect proof book data working with customers, and determine best practices for the products.
• Conduct key customer engagement project which need demonstrate the best performance of our product.
• Support ASML Brion’s on-site customer support engineers and be responsible for new product introductions, including educating on-site engineers about ASML Brion’s new products.
• Top level experts of OPC, also abundant knowledge in modeling, inspection and computational end-to-end flow optimization.
• Lead path finding to break key technical barriers, enable product roadmap and critical to business win.
• Lead high performance team to quickly deliver solutions to solve customer production issues in application level.
• Oversee Tachyon product family in system level.
• Drive end-to-end performance enhancement continuously.
• Organize technical review meetings to coordinate cross department communication and collaboration.
• Foresee industry trend and explore business opportunities, have vision of holistic solutions that integrate multiple products to deliver unique values to customer.
• Organize cross team efforts to realize new solutions.
• Lead strategic product development, give directions and make decision on technical challenges, organize collaborations among multiple teams through full product lifecycle.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan.
• Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal