DTL Active Charge Control Laser - HMI 4XX & Nebula (TT26)

All internal employees are welcome to apply for this role. In line with our transition principles, impacted colleagues will receive priority consideration during the selection process. Non-impacted applicants may be placed on a waitlist by default, depending on application volume and role-specific suitability.

DTL Position

• Active Charge Control (ACC)

DTL Preferences Note

You will be asked to provide a ranked order of preference for your top three DTL leadership roles during the selection process. 

Introduction of the job

As the DTL Leader in San Jose, you drive end-to-end engineering delivery for the submodule, ensuring predictable, high quality execution within scope, time, and budget constraints. You reinforce D&E standards, foster a healthy and high performing team culture, and manage people and capacity with clarity and accountability.

You make technical “how” decisions aligned with Primus Inter Paris, oversee hiring within budget, and allocate internal and farm‑out capacity to optimize delivery. In close partnership with the MDU Leader, you align sequencing, integrate deliverables across teams, and introduce improved ways of working to strengthen execution and advance MDU objectives.

The role spans innovative, multidisciplinary technology with multiple products in scope; involves significant collaboration with other Delivery Teams and integration across smaller MDUs; operates with two core competences within the team; carries broader competency and sub‑module responsibilities; and requires strategic stakeholder influence across adjacent MDUs, multiple sectors, and external partners.

Responsibilities

In this role, you are accountable for driving end‑to‑end Delivery Team performance, ensuring predictable execution within triple‑constraints, strict adherence to D&E ways of working, and a healthy, high‑performing team environment.

Delivery

• Own end-to-end delivery of all engineering outputs for the sub-module and drive PGP execution for the sub-module based on a profound understanding of business success criteria.

• Drive Delivery Team planning to realize the agreed objectives, proactively identifying and mitigating risks and issues incl. potential escalation to sector MDU roles on sector deliverable dependencies.

• Set boundary conditions for sub-module elements, balancing QLTCS trade-offs across, ensure sub-module elements integrate into a coherent performant and reliable sub-module, and resolve bottlenecks escalated by architects, engineers, planner & integrators and sectors.

• Day-to-day steering to realize Delivery Team deliverables, including industrialization deliverables.

• Ensuring that risks, operational dependencies, and blocking items are solved or properly escalated.

• Provide robust means & methods, tools, and competency development to enable high‑quality execution, including tailoring where needed—subject to Foundation approval—to best support Delivery Team performance.

• Potential add-on: Serve as the key liaison between a Module Delivery Unit and the Guild, ensuring clear alignment, effective knowledge flow, and consistent application of Guild standards and practices.

People

• People and performance management of the Delivery Team (max. 10 direct reports and sector indirect reports), including talent development and succession.

• Guaranteeing team stability, knowledge management, and workforce planning, including escalating resource shortage or surplus.

• Creating a safe and inclusive environment in which employees feel engaged and can grow to their full potential.

• Building a high performing team by setting right conditions and expectations, including for sector roles, to step-up their impact.

Education & experience

• BS in engineering or in relevant technical field.

• MSc or PhD preferred in relevant technical field.

• 5 years of engineering experience, including technical or team lead role, ideally within equivalent industry or within ASML as: (Chief) Product Owner, Group Lead, Project Lead, Team Lead or Main Delivery Owner.

• Proven delivery track record on complex, multidisciplinary work.

• Specialized knowledge of technical domain (incl. learnings from previous/ similar products in the field), and good understanding of interfaces with other Delivery Teams within MDU.

• Planning and delivery leadership with proficiency in setting priorities and driving alignment in a fast-paced, ambiguous and customer-focused environment).

• Analytical and pragmatic attitude. Accurate, structured and quality focused minded.

• Experience in leadership.

Technical & functional skills

• For ACC: Applies precision motion, opto‑mechanical design, laser physics, optics, and mechanical tolerancing to develop stable, high‑precision system solutions from prototype to high‑volume manufacturing.

Behavioral & leadership skills

• Drives results: Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances. 

• Demonstrates self-awareness: Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. 

• Values differences: Recognizes the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

• Builds effective teams: Builds strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.

• Drives vision and purpose: Paints a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action.

Other

• This position is located on-site.  It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation. A flexible workplace arrangement is available for remote work up to two days a week. 

• Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.

• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

• Ability to travel (~10%) is required.