NPI - Product Technical Expert (m/f/d) - for semiconductor industry
Applied Materials · Posted Nov 9, 2026
- Heimstetten, Bavaria, Germany
- Full-time
- €70K–€97K per year
We are seeking a Product Technical Expert (PTE) to join our Operations team, focusing on driving manufacturability during new product introduction (NPI) projects for next-generation semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Compensation
Salary: €70.400,00 - €96.800,00
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical owner of a product line or module within operations division throughout the product lifecycle (from NPI to series production).
- Work closely with the industrial, equipment and supplier engineering teams to assure stable, lean and yield optimized processes along the series production as well as safeguarding future products meeting manufacturability requirements.
- Drive design for manufacturability (DFM) to optimize cost, quality, and uptime during NPI phase.
- Driving structured, complex and technical troubleshooting via professional root cause analysis within a field of high voltage & high vacuum.
- Upscaling, running AI initiatives for optimization of processes and loss-times.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in physics, electrical-, optics- or systems engineering
- Nice to have: knowledge in CAD tools (e.g., SolidWorks, NX)
- Nice to have: PLM systems
- Nice to have: LEAN methods
- Nice to have: SAP