Team Leader for Calibration Products Engineering (Semiconductor)

Location: Leuven, Belgium

Company

hirify.global is a world-leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, using advanced semiconductor fabrication infrastructure to develop products for semiconductor, artificial intelligence, life sciences, and sustainable energy applications.

What you will do

• Lead the engineering team responsible for the technical performance and quality of hirify.global's low-volume calibration wafer product portfolio.
• Maintain and optimise process integration flows and lead New Product Introduction activities for next-generation calibration wafer products.
• Define customer requirements, plan engineering evaluations, and confirm that products can meet requirements consistently.
• Drive quality and industrialisation using FMEA methods to prevent quality incidents.
• Lead root-cause analysis using statistical tools including JMP and SPC, implement corrective actions, and ensure rigorous technical and quality reporting.
• Act as the technical point of contact for key customers, collaborate with R&D experts, and mentor senior and junior integration engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Applied Physics, Chemical Engineering, or a related semiconductor discipline.
• At least 3 years of experience as a section head or team leader for an engineering team, plus at least 5 years of hands-on experience in semiconductor wafer fabrication.
• Strong experience in advanced process integration in a 300 mm fab environment.
• Good understanding of unit-process interactions, device physics, defect mechanisms, and yield learning.
• Proven success moving complex process flows from early development to industrialisation, technology transfer, or New Product Introduction.
• Proficiency in statistical data analysis, Design of Experiments, and fab data analytics platforms such as JMP, Spotfire, or similar.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, including alignment of internal teams and external executive clients around shared technical milestones.

Nice to have

• Experience in advanced CMOS, silicon photonics, or heterogeneous integration.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work at a premier nanotechnology research centre at its headquarters in Leuven.
• Open, multicultural, and informal working environment with opportunities to take initiative and responsibility.
• Professional and personal development through hirify.global.academy, the corporate university.
• Market-appropriate salary with fringe benefits.
• Inclusive employer committed to supporting employee development.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted directly by the candidate; unsolicited resumes from agencies and recruiting vendors are not accepted unless covered by a prior written agreement with hirify.global.