Senior Applications Engineer

Introduction to the job

Applications Engineering – Creating Tomorrow’s Value

We proactively enable business development and drive customer adoption of a tailored portfolio of sustainable ASML solutions by applying deep industry, product, process, and system knowledge in a collaborative environment.

The Senior Applications Pathfinding Engineer is a customer-facing technical role focused on system-level pathfinding, node definition, and integrated solution development. This role translates customer technology needs into clear technical requirements, solution direction, and validation plans, ensuring ASML’s product portfolio delivers value in the customer environment.

This position combines field system engineering and applications expertise to support roadmap alignment, new technology pathfinding, on-product validation, and technical issue resolution across advanced DUV and YieldStar environments.

This role offers opportunities to grow in technical leadership, project leadership, and broader management responsibilities.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead customer-facing pathfinding and system engineering activities to translate future customer needs into node and solution requirements

• Define and represent the customer Concept of Operations, ensuring customer constraints, use cases, and technical needs are reflected in solution planning

• Act as a key interface between the customer and internal stakeholders across system engineering, product teams, business lines, and programs

• Support new technology pathfinding (NTP) and related strategic programs by driving technical alignment, progress reviews, issue resolution, and solution decisions

• Contribute to the customer’s global development model through close collaboration with Technology Development (TD) teams and support of cross-site programs and projects

• Identify solution gaps, risks, and required additional node functionality, ensuring alignment with ASML’s product portfolio architecture

• Support customer technology roadmap alignment by ensuring technical consistency in customer-facing materials and pathfinding engagements

• Lead or support projects related to new node introduction, node transitions, and customer ramp-up

• Define and execute on-product experiments with customers to validate performance, generate insights, and demonstrate product value

• Analyze customer and experimental data using appropriate technical methods and clearly communicate findings to internal and external stakeholders

• Translate customer issues into lithography, metrology, or system-level problem statements and drive containment and solution development

• Prepare and deliver technical presentations for customer meetings and support adoption of new capabilities and solutions

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree or PhD in a relevant technical discipline

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a similar technical role

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the semiconductor or advanced manufacturing industry

• Experience in system engineering, applications engineering, pathfinding, product engineering, or customer-facing technical development

• Minimum of 5 years of experience using MATLAB, Python, JMP, or similar analytical tools

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in technical data analysis, problem solving, and presentation of findings

• Proven experience working across stakeholders and managing technical change in a complex environment

• Experience with EUV, DUV, metrology, node development, or system integration is preferred

Skills

Working at the cutting edge of technology requires strong collaboration and the ability to solve complex challenges.

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• Strong system engineering and technical problem-solving skills

• Strong organizational, communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills

• Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into structured technical requirements and action plans

• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Ability to work independently and drive execution in a fast-paced environment

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail

• Basic project management skills

• High drive, accountability, creativity, and technical curiosity

Other Information

• Up to 10% travel is required for training and cross-site/customer support

• Specific vision abilities include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

• This position may be subject to legal and export control requirements

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

Inclusion and diversity

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

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