If a potentially good or excellent match, we will contact you within 3 weeks from applying.

As a member of the High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) team, we're looking for a methodical, problem-solving PVD process engineer. Your role is to help build and to operate our PVD deposition equipment to produce HTS tapes that meet specifications. You work closely with the HTS engineering and characterization team.

Responsibilities

• Provide process expertise for guiding the design of the PVD machine

• Design and implement characterization methods for seed layers and HTS films

• Participate in machine commissioning and troubleshooting

• Develop Design of Experiments for PVD process optimization leading to uniform epitaxial growth of high performance HTS and related thin films

• Prepare and operate the PVD machine including maintenance and documentation

• Write and regularly update operation guide for the PVD process

• Contribute to continuous improvements in manufacturing large format HTS films in collaboration with the rest of the HTS team

• Develop novel solutions and contribute to new intellectual property

• Identify machine design improvements and participate in their implementation based on modelling and data from characterization methods

Qualifications -essential:

• PhD or Master’s degree + equivalent experience in materials science, physics, or chemical engineering, or related field, or equivalently:

•  Working experience in PVD processing or/and development for at least 2 years

• In-depth knowledge in thin film deposition and/or nanofabrication

• Detailed knowledge of PVD equipment

• Basics knowledges on automation and process monitoring

• Knowledge of CAD: Solid Works or Inventor

• Fluent in English (C1)

Qualifications -desirable:

• Coding experience in Python, Matlab or other programming language

Qualified and interested?

Send your cv and motivational e-mail to jobs@renfusion.eu.