Probes QA Engineer

About Nearfield Instruments

Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a fast-growing scale-up high-tech company. We design, develop, integrate, market and service advanced metrology machines. Our machines enables our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers – to increase the production yields, and thus, functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics.

Founded in 2016, we bring together the most creative minds (approx. 380 employees) in science and technology and develop a one-of-a-kind, revolutionary high throughput Scanning Probe Microscopy system.

In an AFM system (like the Quadra of NFI), probes (the measurement needles) are a crucial element. Probes have a limited lifetime and thus are a consumable, which need regular supply, to prevent unavailability of the measurement tool. Therefore, probes supply is an essential element of the service to our customers.

Each probe has individual characteristics (resonance frequencies, stiffness, etc.) which are important parameters to tune the measurement process with that specific probe. These characteristics should be measured when probes are delivered to our customers.

As probes QA Engineer you play an important role in the daily operations for probes delivery. You will be end-to-end responsible for the quality of the probes. Meaning you have to oversee the whole chain of supplier quality, incoming and outgoing inspections, handling and characterization and the performance of the probes. You will develop new or improved procedures for qualification and characterization and ensure these new procedures as well as required trainings are in effect. With suppliers you will align on their quality requirements, qualification processes and quality improvement plans. You will evaluate the reports on probe usage and performance from the customer sites, and investigate issues where scores are lagging. To investigate such issues you will cooperate with colleagues from R&D and D&E to perform root cause analysis and propose & implement solutions.

Key responsibilities:

•        Establish well-defined procedures for all probe quality related activities

•        Monitor quality of probes

•        Identify areas where performance is lagging or where improvements are feasible.

•        Drive quality improvements internally and at suppliers

Your Profile:

•        Mechanical engineering, material engineering, physics or similar background

•        Minimum 3 years experience in Quality Control

•        Experience with SPC

•        Preferred experience in the semiconductor industry and part manufacturing

•        Preferred experience working in clean rooms

•        Familiarity with AFM probes is a plus

•        Good analytical & presentation skills

•        Good (English) communication

What can you expect from us?

Getting on board now is a great opportunity to grow with the company from a technical, personal, and financial perspective. Nearfield's momentum is energetic and promising!

Our starting point is of course to pay someone a fair and competitive salary and besides this we offer you:

• Valuation of your work-life balance;

• Time for some relaxation: 30 holidays per calendar year (based on 40 hours);

• 8% holiday allowance;

• Commuting allowance;

• Discount on your health insurance;

• We are here to support one another, and colleagues are there to help you. TEAM is very important, Together Everyone Achieves More!

• Besides a challenging role where you can utilize the full extent of your professional knowledge.

Apply for the job

If the above challenges excites you, we encourage you to send us your details using the Apply now button on our career site.

Our recruitment process:

• Screening by Recruiter

• Technical Interview

• HR/ Director Interview

• Offer and reference check

• Chat with the CEO

• Onboarding and welcome at Nearfield Instruments!

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We appreciate the interest, but we source all our candidates directly. We understand that you as an intermediary want to present candidates to our interesting positions. This is not how we have structured our recruitment.

This means that all profiles offered to Nearfield Instruments will be treated as direct applications. Unless we have explicitly agreed otherwise.