Senior Controls​/Automation Engineer

Introduction to the job

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 systemdevelopment 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.

As a Senior Controls/Automation Engineer you will:

• 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 activates including trouble shooting the control system, designing and executing test plans, to ensure the system functions as designed in the EUV light source. Such activities can take place in lab test bench and manufacturing cleanroom at various ASML sites.
• Documents work results with system requirements, design specifications, procedures, and training materials.
• Willingness to work in a dynamic customer focused environment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Performs the design, development, and implementation of complex algorithms involving controller design, optimization, system identification, signal processing and stochastic signal analysis for the EUV Source & other equipment used in the semiconductor industry.
• Works from broadly defined systems specifications to determine appropriate top-down automation, control system and algorithm architecture.
• Generates requirements and design…