Process Engineer (Ref. RT-05-PA)

This role exists to turn process ideas into processes that hold: it owns the steps that take a Dynamic Drop™ recipe from a promising result to something repeatable on a partner’s substrate. Sample preparation, wet and electrochemical processing, sample post-processing, inspection and metrology are the daily toolset. It is for an engineer who already knows their way around a lab and wants to own processes rather than execute them.

• Own process steps end to end. Sample preparation, wet and electrochemical processes, sample post-processing, inspection and metrology tools: you set the parameters, define the process window, and are the reference for all of them.
• Design experiments, not just run them. Build the test matrix and size it so the outcome will actually be conclusive — DoE and applied statistics rather than one factor at a time.
• Find root causes. When yield drops or a dimension drifts, take the problem apart methodically — data, equipment, material, method — instead of changing three things at once.
• Turn results into standards. Write the procedures and best-known methods that keep a process alive when you are not in the room.
• Own the equipment and what it costs. Qualification, maintenance planning and acceptance of new tools; the technical dialogue with suppliers; and the case for the tooling and consumables your processes need, inside the budget agreed.
• Work across the lab. With electronics, chemistry, mechanics and production, so that a process that works on a sample also works on a product.
• Bring the junior engineer and the technician up. Not a formal management line, the practical kind: at the bench, on the numbers, on the reasoning.
• Degree in Materials Science, Materials or Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• 3 to 7 years hands-on in a lab, pilot line or process production environment.
• Regular cleanroom experience, and at least one process you can honestly say you owned.
• Semiconductor process familiarity from direct experience: electrochemical deposition and plating are the closest fit; thin films, microfabrication, laser processing and advanced packaging are close enough.
• Data skill you can defend: distributions, variability, capability, DoE, in Python, R, JMP or Minitab.
• Fluent English, written and spoken. Italian is a plus.
• Judgment about safety: chemicals, lasers and cleanroom discipline are not negotiable.
• Hands-on, genuinely. This role does not delegate the bench work away; you keep doing it.
• Precision and traceability. Your results are reproducible by someone else, because your record is good enough for them to follow.
• Curiosity and initiative. You go and look. You propose the experiment before it is asked of you.
• Clear technical writing. An unreadable report is a result that does not exist.
• Small team, short cycles, visible mistakes. We value people who say what they think early and change their mind when the data says so.
• Open mindset. You are not afraid to challenge assumptions, and you want to contribute to advancing the state of the art.

Your process work ships inside a product rather than ending in a report, and the scope grows as the line and the team grow. You will spend a significant part of your week gowned and standing, and the work alternates between the interesting problem and the careful repetition that makes the interesting problem solvable. The team is small: there is no layer between you and the decision — and none between you and the consequence either.