MEMS Fabrication Cleanroom Technician – (Electron) Optics MEMS

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As a MEMS Fabrication Technician at TU Delft, you will enable groundbreaking research while helping researchers, students and industry partners transform innovative ideas into working devices.  

Job description

As a MEMS Fabrication Technician, you play a key role in developing, optimizing and supporting advanced cleanroom fabrication processes for cutting-edge MEMS technologies. Your work contributes to a wide range of applications, including electron optics, acoustics, photonics, microscopy and imaging.

Your work focuses on executing and continuously improving a broad range of cleanroom processes, including wet-chemical processing (such as wet etching, sample cleaning and lift-off), conductive and non-conductive coating, optical, laser and electron beam lithography, reactive ion etching (RIE and DRIE), stacking, alignment, bonding and wire bonding. You monitor process quality, investigate deviations and identify opportunities to improve reliability, reproducibility and efficiency.

You work closely with principal investigators, postdoctoral researchers, PhD candidates and fellow cleanroom specialists to support research projects. You also provide hands-on technical support to researchers, students and industrial users, helping them successfully use the cleanroom facilities and fabrication technologies.

An important part of your role is sharing knowledge and enabling others to succeed. You train and guide new users in approved cleanroom procedures, contribute to a safe and efficient working environment, and help ensure the reliability of cleanroom equipment and fabrication processes. You understand that groundbreaking research depends on both discipline and creativity: strict adherence to cleanroom protocols provides the foundation that allows researchers the freedom to explore, experiment and innovate with confidence. This position offers the opportunity to work at the interface of academic research and industrial innovation. Acting as the bridge between the Imaging Physics department and our two cleanroom facilities, Else Kooi Laboratories and Kavli Nanolab., you connect researchers with the technical expertise and infrastructure needed to turn ambitious ideas into reality.

Job requirements

You enjoy working at the interface of fundamental research and industrial innovation, collaborating with both academic and industrial partners to achieve tangible results. Embracing the opportunity to work with leading industrial partners, you know how to collaborate and achieve meaningful results geared to the development of pragmatic applications. You also put your curiosity to good use: you don’t take anomalies for granted and take the initiative to dig deeper and spar with experts. Harnessing your communication skills, you convince colleagues at TU Delft and others of your approach, models and designs.

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We welcome applications from both experienced MEMS fabrication technicians and candidates at an earlier stage of their career.

If you already have extensive cleanroom experience, you will be able to work independently and help train colleagues and users in our state-of-the-art facilities. If you have a foundation in MEMS fabrication but are still developing your expertise, we will support you with a structured onboarding programme, intensive coaching and a personal development plan of up to two years. During this training period, you will be appointed in the introductory salary scale (Scale 9).

TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)

Working at TU Delft means contributing to solutions that really make a difference.

For over 180 years, we have been training engineers who make an impact worldwide in companies, government bodies, or as entrepreneurs. Our alumni turn knowledge into concrete solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow. These challenges are changing rapidly. That is why we focus on themes such as energy, climate, digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), and smart mobility every day. Our education and research are directly aligned with what society needs now and in the future.

At TU Delft, our people make the difference. With their knowledge and curiosity, our staff provide a high-quality education and conduct pioneering research that extends beyond the campus. You will have the opportunity to take the initiative, work with others, and grow as a professional. Working at TU Delft means join an international community of professionals and students. Together, we create knowledge, innovations, and solutions that help move the world forward.

Faculty Applied Sciences

With more than 1,100 employees, including 150 pioneering principal investigators, as well as a population of about 3,600 passionate students, the Faculty of Applied Sciences is an inspiring scientific ecosystem. Focusing on key enabling technologies, such as quantum- and nanotechnology, photonics, biotechnology, synthetic biology and materials for energy storage and conversion, our faculty aims to provide solutions to important problems of the 21st century. To that end, we educate innovative students in broad Bachelor’s and specialist Master’s programmes with a strong research component. Our scientists conduct ground-breaking fundamental and applied research in the fields of Life and Health Science & Technology, Nanoscience, Chemical Engineering, Radiation Science & Tech