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In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

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Enabler for smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips

Working for tomorrow today.

Around 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are produced using ZEISS technologies. As the centerpiece of every electronically controlled system, they have become an integral part of our everyday lives—whether in smartphones, smart homes, or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems, and process-control solutions, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, increasingly powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips, and thus plays a pivotal role in the age of micro- and nanoelectronics.

Within the Irradiation Testing team at ZEISS SMT GmbH, we work in an interdisciplinary environment to advance the future of lithography optics. One of our responsibilities is to characterize the lifetime of optical systems under conditions that closely resemble customer applications and to identify particularly favorable operating conditions. In doing so, we improve current products while directly shaping future systems. Our ambition is to continually push the limits of what is technically and experimentally possible.

Your Role

• Following a structured onboarding process, you will gradually take on operational and technical responsibility for experimental systems and become their primary point of contact.

• Besides setting up experimental systems, you will assume long-term responsibility for their reliable operation.

• Regular system inspections, maintenance, sample handling, and thorough documentation are part of daily, high-quality experimental work.

• You will work independently and pragmatically within agreed processes and procedures.

• Close coordination with the team is essential.

• If deviations or uncertainties arise, you'll communicate them transparently and work together with the team to identify and implement solutions.

Your Profile

• You bring a solid science/engineering background in one of these areas: Technical Physics, Applied Photonics, Optical Engineering, Laser Technology, Optoelectronics, or equivalent.

• You can design and operate experimental setups and measurement techniques (e.g., optical metrology, environmental controls) and you have lab experience (e.g., student work, experimental thesis, or relevant professional experience).

• You describe yourself as self-driven, organized, and pragmatic.

• You are comfortable coordinating closely with the team and communicating in German or English when needed.

• Knowledge in solid-state physics/material science, basic understanding of chemical processes, and capabilities in programming, electronics, control systems, construction, or gas technologies are a plus.

• We'll fill any knowledge gaps together with our well-proven onboarding approach.

• You're willing to take responsibility for lab infrastructure and safety.