Engage customer process engineering, R&D, quality and technology-roadmap teams at application level rather than limiting discussions to material specifications.
Lead technically credible conversations across crucibles, fused-quartz consumables, clean thermal applications, etch and other targeted semiconductor applications.
Build structured engagement plans for strategic ecosystem participants, including equipment makers, fabricators, research institutes and end users.
Application and product development
Map customer process conditions, failure modes and performance requirements to relevant HPQ material properties.
Translate application requirements into product targets covering impurity chemistry, hydroxyl content, particle-size distribution, fusion behaviour, bubble formation, devitrification, viscosity and component lifetime.
Co-lead application-specific product development and validation with T&I, operations, external laboratories and customers.
Develop value-in-use dossiers that link HPQ characteristics to yield, component life, particles, downtime, process stability and qualification risk.
Qualification and technical problem solving
Provide application-level input to qualification strategy while Technical Sales & Customer Qualification retains milestone and quality-interface ownership.
Support root-cause analysis of qualification failures and customer performance issues, converting findings into product, process or specification improvement actions.
Define testing protocols, acceptance criteria and evidence packages for application validation.
Capture and reuse qualification learning across customers, applications and regions.
Technology roadmap and competitive intelligence
Monitor semiconductor process evolution, advanced logic, memory, HBM, advanced packaging and other trends that may change quartz performance requirements.
Assess application-level threats and opportunities from synthetic silica, silicon carbide, ceramics and other alternative materials.
Identify defend, grow, explore and no-go application zones based on technical fit, qualification barriers and value creation.
Provide technical insight to long-range HPQ product and capacity roadmaps.
Knowledge and capability building
Create and maintain a central application knowledge repository combining analytical, modelling, laboratory, qualification and customer information.
Publish internal application guides, customer-facing technical papers and training materials.
Coach Strategic Account Sales, Technical Sales, T&I and operations teams in semiconductor applications and customer process requirements.
Help recruit and develop additional application engineers as customer demand and the co-development pipeline scale.
Experience and qualifications
Education
Master's degree required; PhD preferred in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Semiconductor Engineering, Physics, Ceramics, Glass Science or a related discipline.
Professional experience
Typically 10 to 15 years of relevant experience in semiconductor equipment, device manufacturing, process integration, semiconductor materials, fused quartz or high-purity materials.
Demonstrated experience translating process or device requirements into material or component specifications.
Experience with customer qualification, change control, failure analysis and cross-functional technical problem solving.
Credibility engaging technical leaders within equipment OEMs, fabs, wafer producers, crucible manufacturers or quartzware fabricators.
Experience leading technical work across multiple regions and organisational boundaries.
Preferred industry backgrounds
Semiconductor equipment or process technology companies such as Lam Research, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, Kokusai, ASM or comparable organisations.
Device, foundry or memory manufacturers such as Intel, TSMC, Samsung, Micron or comparable organisations.
Quartz, crucible or materials companies such as Heraeus, Momentive, QSIL, SUMCO, Shin-Etsu or comparable organisations.
Employee Type
Permanent
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