Role Description
Nova is looking for an Application Team Lead who is a highly technical, motivated individual to support our growth in the semiconductor. The Application Team Lead is someone who lead a small team of highly motivated engineers to develop high-value, innovative materials metrology applications in semiconductor manufacturing. He/She will apply scientific methodologies and robust statistical techniques to optimize applications for the high-volume manufacturing (HVM) fab environment: and technical on site customer engagement support.
Why Nova:
- Certified Best Places to Work from "Great Places to Work" in 2022, 2023 & 2024 (Rated by our employees) Top 30 in our industry category
- Doubled in revenue from 2020 to 2022
- Customer focus: We value building strong relationships. You'll be the face of Nova, working closely with customers to understand their needs.
- Continuous learning: We're passionate about growth. You'll gain in-depth knowledge of cutting-edge metrology tools, participate in industry trainings, and receive ongoing mentorship from experienced engineers.
Responsibilities
What will you do as an Application Team Lead?
- Be a customer centric applications and product expert
- Lead on site small team application scientist team on projects, daily activities and customer engagement.
- Promote best known methods for Nova’s XPS/XRF and SIMS solutions
- Able to manage, track and drive projects related to material metrology customer engagements.
- Self-starter with high energy and strong work ethic
- Highly collaborative and able to manage conflicts
- Exceptional presentation, verbal skills to clearly articulate technical/analytical information
- Be polite, cordial, considerate, and respectful when communicating with customers, vendors and fellow employees
- Manage customer requests and requirements in a timely and professional manner
- Mentor and coach less experience engineers
- Train and update field applications engineers
- Seek out opportunities to proliferate Nova’s metrology solutions
- Perform strategic customer demonstrations of Nova solutions
- Support development of new application features and assist in their market penetration
- Assist end-users and Nova service engineers in troubleshooting Nova products in the field
Requirements
- Degrees in Engineering, Physics, Material Science or relevant fields. Graduate degree preferred.
- At least 7 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
- Demonstrated ability in leading projects in solving sophisticated technical problems.
- Key areas of expertise include XPS/XRF, SIMS, metrology, and semiconductor processing.
- Hands-on fab experience and strong background in semiconductor manufacturing processes (lithography, CMP, deposition, wet, dry etch and advanced packaging) preferred.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills and be able to work independently.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills along with strong leadership skills are required.
- Good work ethics with the highest degree of integrity and dignity
- Must be fluent in English language, both writing and verbal communications
- Be able to travel up to 25%, both domestic and international
