Accelerating quality testing is essential for chipmakers to meet the soaring demand for computing capabilities. To meet this need, Nearfield Instruments has developed revolutionary metrology machines. As a product owner of embedded software, you will help us write software that drives these machines. Would you like to work at the forefront of metrology innovations while rapidly growing your career? Join us and experience the direct impact that your work has on our and our clients’ performance. 

What you’re going to do 

Our Embedded Software team is part of a larger Software group within the Design & Engineering department. The Software group creates the business logic, embedded software and firmware as well as PLC control software for our machines. You will be the product owner for this team of 8 young and talented Embedded Software Engineers. 

This is what you’ll do: 

• Define and prioritize the product backlog for embedded software, aligning with overall product roadmap and business goals. 

• Work closely with applications engineering, product marketing and customers support teams to prioritize and translate customer wishes into product backlog items and acceptance criteria. 

• Collaborate with other disciplines (such as mechatronics, production, systems engineering) to define functional and non-functional software requirements and coordinate dependencies. 

• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring delivery of high-quality software on time. 

• Support validation, verification, and integration activities on test benches and actual semiconductor equipment. 

What you’ll get 

At Nearfield Instruments, you’ll be joining the most creative minds in science and technology from all over the world. We share a drive and have the potential to become the leading metrology instruments manufacturer. This is your chance to visibly contribute to growing our company and building revolutionary machines for the global semiconductor industry. The benefits we offer include: 

• A salary matching your skills, expertise and experience. 

• A one-year contract, which we hope to convert into a permanent contract. 

• Benefits like a good pension scheme, a commuting allowance, and a discount on your health insurance. 

• A holiday allowance of 8% and plenty of time to relax with 30 days of annual leave, based on a 40-hour week. 

• An engaging onboarding program and a buddy to mentor you, so you can start with confidence. 

• Unrivalled on-the-job training as you’ll be working with the industry’s top scientists, developing technology that doesn’t yet exist. And lots of opportunities to grow your career at our fast-paced and rapidly growing scale-up. 

• An open and transparent working environment: we listen to you and empower you to take initiative and get the job done in the way that works best for you.

who you are 

You to recognize yourself in the profile as described below.  

• Demonstrated 3+ years of experience product ownership in a high-tech industrial domain. 

• 3+ years of experience as a senior embedded software engineer. 

• Bachelor or masters level degree in Embedded Systems, Computer Engineering or related studies. 

• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary and fast-moving engineering environment, being in contact with customers, suppliers and the other engineers. 

• Proven experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies. 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. 

• Strong command of written and spoken English, as English is our main language.