Applications Engineer
Oxford Instruments plc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Bristol • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Maintain progress in your allocated projects at the level necessary to achieve successful outcomes.
- Collaborate with your team leader in planning and understanding projects and agreeing their schedules along with the allocated project manager.
- Provide frequent and regular progress updates on ongoing projects and flag obstacles as they become apparent.
- Ensure project work is in the ‘house style’ and that output is in a standard format, complies with company quality, as well as other regulatory and compliance standards.
- Carry out hardware development and improvement activities under the guidance of a hardware specialist.
- Gain and contribute specialist understanding of critical market or application areas to inform the understanding of problems to address, their solutions and value to the business.
- Liaise with Product managers and the business development teams, and extract information on product performance requirements in order to produce satisfactory samples and validate hardware specifications.
- Where necessary provide technical process expertise for generating marketing literature and supporting conferences.
- Develop an excellent working knowledge of the technology to facilitate fault finding and root cause analysis on processing results or equipment performance to deliver optimised processes and hardware performance.
Requirements
- A relevant science or engineering degree.
- Desirable: Further degree in a related topic.
- Experience in the semiconductor industry or relevant experience in an academic institution.
- Practical experimentation.
- Typical lab measuring skills (e.g. SEMs, ellipsometry etc.).
- Experience in one of the following: III-V photonics, RF devices, Quantum devices, Sustainability in processing, SiC power devices.
- Comfortable living for extended periods in a foreign country.
- Desirable experience in at least one of the following areas: Plasma etching, Plasma deposition or Cleanroom technique.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave
- early finish on Fridays
- private healthcare
- share incentive plan
- defined contribution Group Personal Pension Plan
- flexible benefits package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
hardware developmentfault findingroot cause analysispractical experimentationlab measuring skillsplasma etchingplasma depositioncleanroom techniqueIII-V photonicsRF devices
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproject managementproblem solvingadaptability
Certifications
relevant science degreeengineering degreefurther degree in related topic