Applications Engineering Manager
Core
Leading the startup and scaling of Applications Engineering support for a strategic advanced-node semiconductor customer in Texas, ensuring on-product performance and yield from pilot-line to high-volume manufacturing.
Role type
Senior Applications Engineering Manager (Strategic Customer Support)
Builds
A multi-disciplinary Applications organization supporting node transfer, ramp-to-volume, and sustaining operations for ASML scanner and metrology platforms.
Domain
Semiconductor manufacturing, lithography, metrology, and high-volume manufacturing (HVM)
Deliverable
Production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Technical leadership in IC manufacturing/lithography/metrology, organizational design and hiring, performance management and succession planning, cross-functional stakeholder alignment, strategic roadmap execution, customer partnership building, operational excellence, data-driven problem solving
Preferred skills
Experience in NPI and advanced manufacturing operations, ability to influence global stakeholders, business acumen, change leadership
Technologies
ASML scanner and metrology platforms, semiconductor process technology
Responsibilities
Lead local Applications organization through NPI, ramp-to-volume, and sustaining operations; Define organizational structure and capability development roadmap; Own performance management and talent development; Translate Applications strategy into executable priorities; Deploy long-term HVM support model; Establish operating rhythms and business reviews; Drive alignment between local execution and global strategy; Act as senior Applications representative to the customer; Represent Voice of the Customer internally; Improve ways of working and escalation pathways; Apply lithography and metrology expertise to drive performance outcomes; Identify business opportunities for customer success
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership scope