APPLIED MATERIALS SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.

Key Responsibilities

High level technical knowledge in at least one R&D discipline (Optic, Electronic, Motion, SEM).

1. Support R&D module owner in “Off & On Tool” Module Integration, Calibration and Qualification;

2. Qualify Module performance to spec (on & off tool);

3. Support R&D development (C&F) activities.

Qualifications:

1. Qualification of non-system components (isolated from application);

2. Define & execute Qualification plans; Define, execute and qualify calibration procedures (off and on tool).

Expert in tool Build and Integration.

Production documentation: define and qualify full build book and some of the sub system ATP tests.

Basic debug abilities and 3rd level of escalation (in some cases) to modules that are within area of expertise

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates expanded conceptual knowledge in own discipline and broadens capabilities

Business Expertise

• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work

Leadership

• No supervisory responsibilities but provides informal guidance to new team members

Problem Solving

• Solves problems in straightforward situations; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents

Impact

• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations

Veranome Biosystems LLC, an Applied Materials company, provides the spatial analysis market with a reliable, easy-to-use, end-to-end multi-omics solution. We enable researchers to deepen their understanding of diseases with high-quality data of how individual cells organize within tissue, using robust workflows, reliable imaging systems and without the need for extensive bioinformatics tools or infrastructure. Veranome’s unique combination of genomics expertise and world-class high-speed diffraction limited optical imaging capabilities enables researchers to access in-situ spatial omics and elucidate reliable disease insights with unsurpassed data quality.

Job Summary: While most industries slowed down in response to the global pandemic in 2020, the field of spatial omics only accelerated. This is an exciting time in this field and we’re looking for an engineering technical manager to lead the product development team. In this challenging and rewarding career opportunity, you will be responsible for leading the team in instrument development, instrument improvement (CIP work), and managing the overall instrument NPI process.

Who you are: You are detailed and process oriented and demonstrate an extensive knowledge and leadership experience in leading product development teams for imaging and/or fluidics hardware work. You have strong project management experience working with various internal teams on the NPI process as well as driving the manufacturing of biotech instruments with external contract manufacturing firms.

Who you will work with: Veranome Bio is a fast-paced, purpose driven company that is at the forefront of building a new product category in the genomics space. You’ll work with an amazing team of experts as we develop cutting-edge products that unlock the potential of high-plex, subcellular resolution spatial omics.

The value you bring + the value you deliver: Your work will be critical in bringing advanced high-content imaging and image analysis from semiconductor optical inspection to high-plex, subcellular resolution spatial omics. You will bring extensive product development knowledge and leadership and in-depth experience working with various contract manufacturing firms for our company to deliver the highest quality products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a product development team to ensure development activities are complete on time.


• Lead and manage continuous product improvement projects (CIP) for the instruments.


• Lead New Product Introduction (NPI) activities with representatives from various groups.


• Lead and coordinate with contractor manufacturers during instrument development, pilot manufacturing, and ramp-up of manufacturing.


• Work with R&D engineers to introduce improvements to the product line.


• Identify risks to project success, develop effective action plans for resolution, and appropriately manage / escalate project issues or risks.

The position is based in the Singapore and will report to the Engineering Director.

Education and Experience:

BS or Masters in Engineering with at least 10 years’ experience in a project/product development role with experiences developing electrical and mechanical systems for the life science sector. Working with optical instrumentation is a strong plus.

Key Competencies:

• Engineering – commanding knowledge and experience with system engineering (electrical and mechanical).


• Knowledge in optics is a plus.


• Experience with Systems Integration and product Verification and Validation highly preferred.


• Familiarity with life science instrumentation design and microfluidics manipulation a plus.


• Experience with quality regulations and standards (e.g. ISO 13485) is a plus.


• Ability to coordinate work within a multidisciplinary team.


• Well-developed documentation and technical report writing skills.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Fluent in English.

Key Responsibilities

1. Responsible for assessing existing and potential markets of abstract scope. Demonstrates comprehensive understanding of technical and business environments. Participates in the development and articulation of strategies to meet business objectives


2. Integrates abstract products into a coherent portfolio of products focused on a market. Manages the portfolio like a “product” (business plan, positioning, buying process, market requirements and marketing plan)


3. Analyzes market data to identify trends/opportunities, develops strategic direction from market information and creates compelling market analysis presentations


4. Drives the needs within targeted markets and analyzes the market segmentations. Recommends which segment(s) to actively pursue. Drives the growth process


5. Partners with management team and other marketing functions (e.g. product marketing, product management, MarCom) to ensure that overall marketing function is effectively meeting the organization’s strategic goals.


6. Oversees creation of abstract product strategies that integrates well with AMAT products


7. Supports the vision and key phases on deliverables for abstract products


8. Responsible for portfolio of products.

Functional Knowledge

• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field


• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

Business Expertise

• Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements

Leadership

• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution

Problem Solving

• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions

Impact

• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

Key Responsibilities

1. Contributes towards development of business & marketing plans, assesses market penetration and product positioning to drive competitive advantage, revenue and market share


2. Conducts basic competitive analysis for specific products or product lines. Drives Red Team Analysis


3. Assists with basic pricing strategies to build and protect a leadership position in market share while enhancing profit margins and developing marketing tools for successful product introductions


4. Junior partner with Engineering, Manufacturing and Sales on development of new products and enhancement of existing products as well as communication of market needs and time requirements


5. Understands technical and business environments. Assists with the development of strategies to meet business objectives


6. Supports the Field to ensure synergistic account approaches


7. Contributes towards the release of standard products through the end of their product life cycle

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates conceptual knowledge of theories, practices and procedures within a discipline

Business Expertise

• Applies general knowledge of business developed through education or past experience

Leadership

• No supervisory responsibilities; accountable for developing technical contribution

Problem Solving

• Uses existing procedures to solve standard problems; analyzes information and standard practices to make judgments

Impact

• Has limited impact on own work team; works within standardized procedures and practices to achieve objectives and meet deadlines

Interpersonal Skills

• Exchanges straightforward information, asks questions and checks for understanding

Key Responsibilities

Develops complex scope business & marketing plans, assesses market penetration and product positioning to drive competitive advantage, revenue and market share

Recommends investment decisions for new product development

Conducts complex competitive analysis for specific products or product lines. Drives Red Team Analysis

Assists with complex pricing strategies to build and protect a leadership position in market share while enhancing profit margins and developing marketing tools for successful product introductions

Partners with Engineering, Manufacturing and Sales to develop new products and enhance existing products as well as communicate critical market needs and time requirements

Understands technical and business environments. Assists with the development of strategies to meet business objectives

Supports the Field to ensure synergistic account approaches and optimization of all opportunities for account partnership and penetration

Manages release of complex products through the end of their product life cycle

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field

Business Expertise

• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

Leadership

• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

Problem Solving

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions

Impact

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view

Key Responsibilities

Perform engineering analysis under general supervision

Design or modify mechanical engineering layouts/schematics and/or detailed drawings/specifications of moderate scope under general supervision

Perform and document engineering tests under general supervision

Generate related alpha/gamma documentation for product release under general supervision

Coordinate the procurement and assembly of mechanical components/equipment and identify sources of critical parts and subsystems to resolve moderately complex technical issues

Troubleshoot a variety of mechanical problems of moderate difficultly under general supervision

Implement concepts of moderate product issues and mechanical solutions of moderate difficulty

May be responsible for the design, development and implementation of custom mechanical tooling, fixturing, and associated processes to enable the handling, assembly and/or disassembly of parts, components, sub-assemblies and final assemblies throughout the product life cycle

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates expanded conceptual knowledge in own discipline and broadens capabilities

Business Expertise

• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work

Leadership

• No supervisory responsibilities but provides informal guidance to new team members

Problem Solving

• Solves problems in straightforward situations; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents

Impact

• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations

Veranome Biosystems LLC, an Applied Materials company, provides the spatial analysis market with a reliable, easy-to-use, end-to-end multi-omics solution. We enable researchers to deepen their understanding of diseases with high-quality data of how individual cells organize within tissue, using robust workflows, reliable imaging systems and without the need for extensive bioinformatics tools or infrastructure. Veranome’s unique combination of genomics expertise and world-class high-speed diffraction limited optical imaging capabilities enables researchers to access in-situ spatial omics and elucidate reliable disease insights with unsurpassed data quality.

Job Summary:

In this challenging but rewarding career opportunity, you will work with system engineers, bench scientists and other engineers to drive operational excellence and quality compliance for the services and manufacturing of our high-throughput bioimaging platform.

You should have a flexible and learning mindset, be able to work in a fluid and dynamic environment, be comfortable working with globally distributed development and operation teams and have a strong desire to pursue creative solutions to challenging problems. This requires you to:

• Setup and update procedures, systems or processes to trend and monitor service and manufacturing performance. Devise procedures, forms for recording, evaluating and reporting quality and reliable data.


• Setup and sustain engineering change controls, deviation management, document change management and QC


• Ensures adequacy of non-conformances and CAPA records


• Drive process risk management activities and ensure completeness of device master record, production batch records, engineering study report, validation packages, change orders and customer service report


• Maintain the Quality Procedures and ensure contents are appropriate for business. Drive management system update due to customer, ISO and regulatory requirements


• Coordinate and drives audit closures from customer, certification body, internal audit and regulatory body


• Drive product risk management activities and ensure quality and completeness of validation packages, and change orders for NPI or transfers


• Ensure that the processes are compliant with Quality System and EHS requirements efficiently


• Coordinate investigations associated with field complaints and customer returns


• May coordinate outsourcing activities with external / internal suppliers.


• Drives Process Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis when working with New Product Transfer and sustaining activity.


• May provide leadership and mentor junior staff to resolve routine issues

All listed tasks and responsibilities are deemed as essential functions to this position. However, business conditions may require reasonable accommodation for additional tasks and responsibilities

Education and Experience:

We welcome applicants with Engineering, or Life Sciences related degrees. >5 years of relevant working experience in manufacturing environment is a plus.

Key Competencies:

• Ability to develop procedures to meet requirement of cGMP, ISO9001 or ISO13485 Standard.


• Experience in manufacturing operations, QC/QA or service testing. Individual with CQE or Six-Sigma certification is a plus


• May have experience with statistical analysis packages. Eg. JMP, Minitab. Expertise in at least one scripting languages such as MATLAB (preferred), Python or R for pipelines and complex data analysis is a plus.


• Experience with electronic Product Life Cycle (PLM), enterprise resource planning tools (SAP) and Quality Management System.


• Experience with applying QC tools (ie. 8D, DMAIC) to improve efficiency and root cause investigation.


• Intermediate to advance level of knowledge in FMEA, Statistical Process Control, Gauge R&R


• May have experience with biochemical assays, cell culture and analytical tools.


• Demonstrate leadership as a change agent.


• Highly effective planning, prioritization, organization and implementation skills


• Able to establish working relationships across functions to achieve business objectives


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Fluent in English.

This position is located in Singapore and report directly to the Operations Manager in Singapore. Some travel is required.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for business success from the technology point of view by management of install Base and new products Application Performance to drive Customer Satisfaction & Identify Business Risks. Responsible for managing the definition and implementation of processes and applications, to meet the customer’s current and future requirements for productivity and leading edge technology, using Applied Materials products.

Manages agreed process roadmaps at customer sites and presents technology and product roadmaps both internally and externally. Keeps in depth knowledge of process development roadmaps and strategies up-to-date.

Works closely with the account and factory based process and technology groups, the product sales engineers and Accounts Management, Defines/approves process support plans for installation and warranty periods depending on product and process maturity. Determines and implements continuous improvement plan (CIP) for assigned installed base.

Own install base application performance by ensuring optimization of tool utilization and driving local capability and knowledge. Manage and take ownership of new system evaluations

Supports local support service resources during installation and warranty as required to achieve CPS (Customer Process Specification) and/or "best known" process performance. Trains local support service resources to obtain and maintain required process knowledge to support installed base

Responsible for installation and (product) qualification of "new" processes and technologies. Executes process ß-sites.

Keeps detailed knowledge of installed process performance in assigned technological area up-to-date.

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines

Business Expertise

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

Leadership

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements

Problem Solving

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information

Impact

• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus

Requirements

• 5-8 years in Advance Wafer-level packaging technology, experience in both Electro-plating and wet etching process


• Strong process background on ECD and wet etch processes. A process technical leader.


• Good communication skills (English, Mandarin)


• Strong ownership and good leadership


• Good customer management skills


• Project management skills required

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for all technical support related aspects at a specific customer: escalations, fleet performance, system installations, improvement programs and upgrades.

Acts as intermediary and field escalation focal point between customer and Division by providing technical support and documentation to field engineers, technicians and product support personnel who are diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing and debugging equipment.

Provides Alpha Site support to Engineering specifically related to installation, operation, calibration, service and /or testing of a new hardware, process or software design in house or on an engineering tool

Provides Beta Site Support; specifically related to installation, operation, calibration, service and/or testing of a new hardware, software or processes on a customer tool.

Initiates and provides review of ECO's to ensure data supports fix and follow up with communication to the field.

Generates and presents system performance data as required. This includes performance metrics such as MTBF, MTBI and Availability. Reporting will also include process data and I/W spending analysis.

Supports GPS in the generation of documentation such as CENs and BKMs. Creates and reviews documentation covering technical improvements, system upgrades, and support plans. Presents at customer level. Ensures field implementation.

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines

Business Expertise

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

Leadership

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements

Problem Solving

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information

Impact

• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus

Requirements

• 5-8 years in Advance Wafer-level packaging technology, experience in both Electro-plating and wet etching process


• Strong HW & process background on ECD and wet etch processes. A HW technical leader.


• Good communication skills (English, Mandarin)


• Strong ownership and good leadership


• Good customer management skills


• Project management skills required

Key Responsibilities

Design or modify electrical/electronic engineering assemblies, layouts/schematics and/or detailed drawings/specifications of moderate scope under general supervision

Perform basic engineering analysis under general supervision

Perform and generate basic engineering test reports under general supervision

Generate related alpha/gamma documentation for product release

Coordinate the procurement and assembly of electrical/electronic components/equipment and identify sources of critical parts and subsystems to resolve technical issues

Troubleshoot a variety of moderately complex electrical problems

Implement concepts for product issues and electrical solutions of moderate difficulty

Assist in development of electrical product specifications

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates expanded conceptual knowledge in own discipline and broadens capabilities

Business Expertise

• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work

Leadership

• No supervisory responsibilities but provides informal guidance to new team members

Problem Solving

• Solves problems in straightforward situations; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents

Impact

• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations

Key Responsibilities

• Support engineering projects that have a substantial mix of optical, physics, algorithms, and software design, and understand the underlying system implications


• Support system integration during the assembly and final testing of new product designs.


• Definition and implementation of metrology solutions addressing the gaps


• Creation of new methodologies to optimize existing system performance for specific applications


• Analysis, development, and transfer of metrology solutions to customer sites


• Documentation of BKMs and procedures


• Design test plans, collect data, perform analyses, present results and conclusions to engineering teams


• Own design of experiments, characterization, and data analysis from R&D to productization.


• Interface with customers, align on technical requirements and schedules

Functional Knowledge

• Thorough, in-depth understanding of customer technologies, processes, and critical gaps;


• Understanding of pros and cons of commonly used semi processing optical metrologies


• Apply knowledge of statistical methods and designing, executing, and analyzing DOE.


• (Preferred) Perform data processing and analysis with scientific analysis tools such as Matlab and/or Python

Business Expertise

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

Interpersonal Skills

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements


• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus


• Training to new employees and target customers


• Ability to work individually and in groups

Education: • Preferred doctoral degree in a relevant field, or Master's Degree with proven experience of >7 years experience

Key Responsibilities

• Support engineering projects in running metrology tests


• Design test plans, collect data, perform analyses, present results and conclusions to engineering teams


• Support metrology system maintenance and operation


• Documentation of BKMs and procedures

Functional Knowledge

• Understanding of customer technologies, processes, and critical gaps;


• Understanding of pros and cons of commonly used semi processing optical metrologies


• Apply knowledge of statistical methods and designing, executing, and analyzing DOE.


• (Preferred) Perform data processing and analysis with scientific analysis tools such as Matlab and/or Python

Interpersonal Skills

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements


• Training to new employees and target customers


• Ability to work individually and in groups

Education: • Preferred Bachelor or Master Degree