Principal Scientist - Tin Management Architect (EUV)

Location: San Diego, CA, US. On-site work includes campus activities, clean-room gowning, laboratory experiments, and occasional business travel.

Salary: $171,200–$235,400 base annual salary

Company

Develops and services advanced lithography machines that enable leading chipmakers to produce smaller, more powerful, and energy-efficient microchips.

What you will do

• Define and drive the long-term Tin Management architecture and technology roadmap for future EUV light sources.
• Identify architectural challenges, technology gaps, development priorities, trade-offs, and critical learning needs.
• Shape experimental strategies and research test-rig campaigns to answer key architectural questions.
• Define modeling, simulation, AI, and data capabilities for Tin Management decisions and guide their development.
• Align research, systems engineering, product development, and external stakeholders on future source architectures.
• Provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on with experimentation, modeling, technology development, and problem solving for approximately 50% of the role.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Physics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline, plus 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Expertise in complex physical systems and one or more of thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, lasers, photonics, or related technologies.
• Strong experience with experimentation, modeling, simulation, data-driven decision-making, data analytics, AI/ML, and digital engineering tools.
• Experience creating multi-year technology roadmaps and aligning technical maturity, cost, integration readiness, and business strategy.
• Ability to influence technical direction across organizational boundaries and communicate clearly with varied audiences.
• Must be legally authorized to access controlled technology under United States Export Administration Regulations before starting work.

Culture & Benefits

• Multidisciplinary collaboration across research, modeling, systems engineering, product development, and external stakeholders.
• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance for employees and families.
• 401(k) plan participation.
• Eight hours of vacation leave per month and 13 paid holidays annually.
• Extended hours and second-shift work may be required for critical experiments and investigations.
• Regular clean-room work with Class 10K gowning and occasional exposure to high-pitched equipment noise.