Application Specialist

What we are looking for

Nova is looking for a Field Application Specialist with exceptional talent and mature leadership skills. At Nova, we leverage advanced physics, mathematics, algorithms, and both software and hardware expertise to push the boundaries of semiconductor technology.

In this role, you will join a dynamic team of innovators who view challenges as opportunities and collaborate across disciplines to solve complex problems at the atomic level. Your leadership will be vital in guiding a team that helps extract unique insights and provides our customers and partners with crucial decision-making data.

• Nova provides insights into process control in the world’s most technologically advanced industry. We employ physics, math, algorithms, software, and hardware expertise to redefine the limits of possible in semiconductors’ manufacturing.
• We invite you to join our dreamers and winners! Brilliant high- aimers who see impossible as the starting point to exciting challenges and work together in multidisciplinary global teams to find answers.
• We dive deep, into the nanometric and atomic levels, to extract unique insights and provide our customers and partners with crucial decision-making data. Each and every one of us helps redefine what people can achieve through technology.

You will be joining Application Team

• Supporting each other anytime is our culture; plan as a team is our tradition.
• We supply creative ideas to fulfill customers’ requests and promote company’s products.
• We contribute the support and provide unique customer value around in Japan Application Team.
• We consider everyone an important partner and respect each other's opinions
• You can learn the advance technical skills and collaborate with leading customers across the globe.
• Teamwork is our spirit; we are the team to make impossible to possible.
• Come as you are, do what you love and grow with team.

What will you do as Field Application Specialist?

• Supply/Sustain OCD / XPS / Raman / SIMS metrology solution support multiple modules, i.e., Litho/CMP/Etch/Dep based on business need
• Communicate and establish good relationship with customers for process & issue understanding.
• Involve up-to-date new metrology technics / products / applications and perform pre-sales demo / presentations to customers.
• Co-work with HQ or other subsidiaries (i.e., IL/US/CN/JP/SG) to develop new application solutions, able to support / work abroad.
• Pro-actively maintain semiconductor knowledge from industry and international academic conferences.
• Be highly sensitive in collecting market information.
• Own presales activities for tools adoption/utilization.
• Be flexible to cross-divisional activities per company’s requirements.
• Education : Above master’s degree in physical, Chemistry, Material Science Engineering or Chemical Engineering background
• Experience : Experience in metrology/inspection and experience in Semiconductor industry is a big plus.
• Knowledge : Basic knowledge with semiconductor process, good project management/leadership skill
• Flexibility : Willing to travel to various regions for customer support activities or trainings
• Language : Proficient in English, Japanese both written and verbal.

That special something you bring in

• Continuous Learning: Never stop growing.
• Open-Minded Collaboration: Communicate well, work effectively in teams.
• Resilience under Pressure: Thrive in high-pressure situations.
• Customer-Centric Focus: Prioritize excellent customer service.
• Autonomy and Interpersonal Skills: Work independently yet excel in interactions.
• Always think out-of-box and Dare to Dream, Dare to WIN!

Get to know us better

Nova (NASDAQ: NVMI) is a global company and a leading provider of innovative metrology solutions for process control in semiconductor manufacturing.

With a team of ~1200 people in three R&D centers and 27 field offices, we bring insights into the world’s most advanced industry. We leverage multiple technology fields such as physics, optics, chemistry, and algorithms to develop hardware and software solutions that measure almost every advanced computer chip built in the world.

Nova dives deep into dimensions and layers at the atomic level to extract unique insights and provide our customers with crucial decision-making data, managing critical challenges by providing unique, differentiated solutions.

Our outstanding people-focused and innovative culture means every person at Nova has the power to make an impact and significantly redefine what people can achieve through technology.

Join us if you are

A dreamer and brilliant high aimer who sees the impossible as the starting point and loves working in a multidisciplinary global team to create innovative breakthroughs.

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