Research Scientist – Light Sources

Introduction

ASML is relentlessly driving the semiconductor industry’s ongoing quest for producing faster, smarter and more energy efficient chips. We are a young, dynamic, international and highly skilled workforce creating, with strong support of our suppliers, the lithographic tools the industry needs to achieve its goals.
Are you looking for a challenge to ensure the ultimate performance of light sources for metrology in our scanners and metrology instruments? Then you will enjoy this position in the Light Sources group at ASML research. You will be part of the group responsible for demonstrating how new or existing technological solutions can be adapted to meet and exceed the needs of our photon based metrology.

Job Mission

As researcher in the light sources group you will be responsible for developing cutting edge light sources and demonstrating their applicability to our industrial context. You will work in a fast paced and multi-disciplinary environment. Your responsibility is to take ownership of the experimental and theoretical work with the rest of the team and drive feasibility studies towards clear conclusions. This includes specification, development, documentation, use of research setups as well as communication of the results towards various stakeholders. Using your technical knowledge, analytical thinking and people skills, you will work closely together with the team and other researchers at ASML.

Job Description

You will join a project team whose mission is to focus on light sources in the UV-Vis-IR regimes. The job consists of:

• Define experiments confirming your hypothesis and support testing on research setups.
• Translate performance / device properties into clear estimates relevant in an industrial context.
• Multiphysics simulations of light matter interaction
• Work together with other physicists towards better understanding of the technologies.
• Generate new ideas and solutions for current and future light sources.

This involves analyzing data, connecting the results to physical phenomena such as optics degradation, beam stability, noise measurements, etc., and steer towards the proper solution directions and conclusions.

Education

PhD in physics/mathematics/chemistry with knowledge of optical systems.

Experience

• Experience with one or more of the following fields will be beneficial: high power lasers, non-linear optics, ultrafast lasers, optical fibers, gas-filled fibers, solid core fibers, light matter interaction, supercontinuum generation, photonic crystals, UV spectroscopy, Harmonic crystals.
• Experience in physical propagation modeling is a plus
• Experience with coding extensive physical models is a plus (Matlab, Julia, Python).

Personal skills

• Ability to translate physical concepts into innovative technical solutions for light sources.
• Ability to think on a functional level and in design details.
• Good communicational skills.
• Ability to switch between complex matters and high-level conclusions, ability to convey these in an understandable fashion.
• Team player with ability to build network towards other parts of the ASML organization.
• Self-propelling, showing initiative and drive, pragmatic attitude.
• Flexible, result driven and committed.
• Strong analytical skills and drive for quality.

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

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