Field Applications Engineer Portland, Oregon (USA)

at  Nearfield Instruments

At Nearfield Instruments we’re looking for a Field Applications Engineer Portland, Oregon (USA) to join our team.
Full-time · Portland, Oregon (USA)

WHO WE ARE

At 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.
Learn more about Nearfield Instruments

MEET THE COMPLEX METROLOGY NEEDS OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY IN THIS CUSTOMER-FACING ROLE AT A RAPIDLY GROWING SCALE-UP.

Chips are shrinking, becoming increasingly powerful and complex. 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.

WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO DO?

In 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.

Your responsibilities include:

• Identifying our customer’s metrology needs, for which you will work closely with marketing and sales colleagues and attend meetings with customers.
• Demonstrating the capabilities of our products, performing measurements on customer wafers, and analysing the data generated.
• Reporting and presenting your findings to our customers, showing the unique potential of our systems.
• Creating 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.
• Taking 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.
• Working 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.
• Demonstrating customer-oriented attitude while performing responsibilities stated above.