Senior Controls/Automation Engineer

About the position

ASML US, including its affiliates and subsidiaries, bring 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. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, 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. The EUV Source team in San Diego operates in a fast-paced, uniquely innovative and challenging environment to create new-to-industry solutions with rapid productization to support an aggressive commercialization plan for the EUV technology within ASML. The Plasma Controls Department is responsible for the development and engineering of the metrology, automation and control loops for the EUV light source system. The complexity of the EUV source puts exciting and challenging demands on the Plasma Control Engineers who will be engaged in all phases of the control system development and integration involving sophisticated control algorithms, real-time embedded software, high speed electronics, precision sensors, and all working under extremely challenging dynamic conditions to produce stable EUV light.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical expert for one or more control/optimization/calibration subsystems, capable of independent decision making for critical technical issues.
• Perform feasibility studies, support the development of product roadmaps, advise on future product definition and system specifications.
• Monitor integrity of system architecture during development, ensure the availability of Test Specifications, and coordinate or execute the testing process and design verification.
• Coordinate or execute the testing process and design verification in lab test bench and cleanroom fabrication environment.
• Coordinate the specification of system functionalities, and design the system architecture based whilst ensuring commonality between products and subsystems across all programs, support program definition, co-ordinate decomposition and specification of sub systems, and support the review process and approval of designs in co-operation with applicable Product- and Project- Management.
• Define, plan, manage and coordinate assigned (portfolio of) projects and ensure execution and delivery, within the project management guidelines.
• Ensure and support optimal communication of specifications to all relevant parties to improve the decision processes, and prepare the introduction of approved new projects by defining all technical specifications on system level for Development & Engineering.
• Leads and mentors junior controls engineers, leads the development and integration of innovative control system solutions to enable stable and efficient production of EUV.
• Organize, coordinate, optimize, lead, coach, develop and appraise employees within the person's expertise / team.
• Applies broad knowledge in sensors, actuators, control algorithms, automation, software, and data analysis tools to drive control system improvements to enable continuously increased EUV power and system availability.
• Leads and performs integration activities including trouble shooting the control system, designing and executing test plans, to ensure the system functions as designed in the EUV light source.
• Documents work results with system requirements, design specifications, procedures, and training materials.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelors' degree in Controls, Mechanical, Computer, Chemical, Aerospace or Electrical Engineering or Physics; Master's or PhD. preferred.
• 5+ years' experience with a Bachelor's degree.
• 3+ years' experience with a Master's degree.
• 1+ years' experience with a PhD.
• Specialization in advanced control systems or plasma physics preferred.
• Courses in Linear systems, feedback control, optimization, signal processing, estimation and system identification and non-linear systems will be highly regarded.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing and implementing practical feedback control or optimization systems of significant complexity.
• Knowledge of modern control theory, optimization, stochastics, and some nonlinear control theory.
• Working knowledge of C/C++ and Python desirable.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Participation in the Company's 401k plan.
• Eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month.
• Thirteen (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year.