Process Assistant SEM

Location: Leuven, Belgium; onsite engineering role in a 24/7 production environment

Company

hirify.global is a premier nanotechnology research center headquartered in Leuven, focused on developing technologies that shape the future.

What you will do

• Maintain day-to-day operational readiness, availability, stability, and performance of SEM tools in a 24/7 production environment.
• Coordinate with operators, First Line Support, Equipment Engineers, and Process Engineers to resolve tool and process issues and ensure effective handovers.
• Manage SEM metrology requests, verify alignment with tool capabilities and process specifications, and recommend suitable inspection strategies and techniques.
• Review and interpret inline SEM/XSEM output and macro- and microscopic wafer inspections, escalating non-conformities involving tool behavior, inspection quality, or data integrity.
• Screen wafer flows and reports, coordinate inspection reservations, and support reduced hold times and cycle-time impact.
• Maintain SEM and FIB signature/authorization requests and share Best Known Methods, documentation templates, training, and inspection knowledge.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Physics, Electronics, Electromechanics, or similar industrial experience.
• Proficient English.
• Eager to learn, self-organized, accurate, and organized.
• Flexible and able to prioritize tasks according to project needs, with a strong sense of urgency.
• Dedicated to high standards of quality and work; resilient and capable of solving problems.
• Independent, proactive, decisive, and assertive.
• Good social and communication skills.
• Adaptable to diverse projects or research topics and able to support colleagues within project timelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Open, multicultural, and informal working environment with opportunities to take initiative and responsibility.
• Development support through hirify.global.academy, the corporate university, including technical and personal growth.
• Market-appropriate salary with fringe benefits.
• Opportunity to work at a leading nanotechnology research center with global partners.
• Inclusive employer committed to supporting and guiding employees.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted directly by candidates; hirify.global does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or other third parties without a prior written agreement for the specific opening.