Application Engineer / Application Engineeress

Job Title: Application Engineer

As an Application Engineer, you will take on the vital role of overseeing the process-related commissioning of our advanced thin-film coating systems. You will perform internal and external acceptances, train customers and service teams, and support process optimization. Your ideas and expertise will play a key role in the continued development of our technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitoring Vacuum Systems: Ensure that our coating systems operate reliably and produce the required thin films.
• Commissioning Production Systems: Take over systems after the hardware check and bring them into operation from a process perspective, from initial settings to final optimization.
• Performing System Acceptances: Document internal tests (IAT) and accompany the final customer acceptance (FAT), usually directly on-site at our customers' facilities.
• Advising Customers and Colleagues: Share your knowledge, train the service team, and assist customers with technical inquiries.
• Further Developing Systems: Test new components, contribute ideas, and actively support documentation and process optimization.

Qualifications

• Technical Know-How: Relevant education (University of Applied Sciences or equivalent) in physics, materials science, microtechnology, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering.
• Experience or Willingness to Learn: Familiarity with vacuum technology and thin-film processes is beneficial. A motivation to learn PVD processes such as sputtering and evaporation is encouraged.
• Hands-On Mentality: A passion for practical work, tinkering, adjusting, and finding creative solutions.
• Communication & Travel: Enjoy interacting with customers, possess good English-speaking skills, and are willing to travel occasionally (approximately 15% of the time).
• Technical Skills: A knack for tinkering, assembling, and fine-tuning technology; it is in your DNA.

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