Process Engineer – Microfabrication (Ref. RT-04-MO)

About the Position

Process Engineer – Microfabrication (Ref. RT-04-MO)

We are seeking a Process Engineer for our microfabrication group to ensure a consistent presence at the workbench. You will work alongside the Senior Microfabrication Engineer, executing experiments, manufacturing components, and collecting data. This role is not a leadership position and does not involve managing a team. Instead, you will be responsible for specific process phases, with your scope of responsibilities expanding as you demonstrate your ability to maintain stability independently.

Responsibilities

• Manufacturing Components: Laser writing, scribing, laser ablation; wet and chemical etching; additive manufacturing and precision mechanical machining. Components in microscale, fixtures, jigs, and test vehicles necessary for the development program, week after week. Much of what we use in the lab does not exist until someone here manufactures it.
• Conducting Experiments and Reporting Data: Prepare samples, execute the experimental matrix as designed, record everything, and report results with numbers, not impressions.
• Taking Charge of Process Phases: Starting with those assigned to you: parameters, process window, repeatability from one run to another. Your responsibility grows as you demonstrate your ability to maintain a stable process without supervision.
• Closing the Loop with Metrology: Optical microscopy, profilometry, and dimensional control: connecting what you set on the machine to what you actually get on the component.
• Keeping Equipment Operational: Periodic qualification, cleaning, consumables, and rigorous maintenance of lasers, wet benches, 3D printers, and machines, along with the habit of reporting a drift before it becomes a batch to discard.
• Documenting Your Work: Parameter sheets, run logs, and procedures clear enough for another person to reproduce your result without asking you anything.
• Collaborating with Your Surroundings: The Senior Microfabrication Engineer, the electrochemistry group, mechanical design, and the Technical Office. You will often act as a liaison between the workbench and technical design more often than you think.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Materials Engineering, Physics, or Chemistry, or a technical diploma accompanied by solid workshop and laboratory experience.
• Experience: 2 to 5 years of practical experience in a laboratory, cleanroom, pilot line, or precision machining workshop.
• Practical Experience: Concrete experience in at least one of these areas: laser micro-machining, wet or chemical etching, precision mechanical machining and CNC, additive manufacturing. One is enough, as long as it is done well.
• Familiarity with Micrometric Tolerances: Surface and edge quality, and the measurements needed to verify them.
• Basic CAD (SolidWorks or equivalent): CAM and G-code can be learned here.
• Familiarity with Data: Basic statistics sufficient to interpret your results with intellectual honesty. Python, JMP, or Minitab are a plus.
• Common Sense in Safety Matters: Chemicals, lasers, machines, and cleanroom rules do not allow for compromises.
• Fluent English, written and spoken: Italian is a plus.

Who You Are

• Visible Desire to Learn: The position is designed for you to grow significantly in micro-fabrication over two years. Show us a skill you've acquired as a self-taught, or a machine you've learned to use because no one else would.
• Practical Spirit: You enjoy machines and equipment, and making something work at the workbench.
• Curiosity That Resists Routine: The twentieth sample deserves the same attention as the first, and you still want to understand why it came out differently.
• Precision Before Speed: A tolerance is a tolerance, and a number without units is not a number.
• Frankness: Small team, short cycles, visible errors. We appreciate those who say what they think from the start and change their mind when the data requires it.

We Offer

• Growth: A budget dedicated to training and professional development.
• Economic: Relocation package, performance-linked bonus (MBO), and meal vouchers.
• Well-being: Health insurance and supplementary pension fund.

About the Company

Joining us means being part of a small reality that allows an engineer at this stage of their career to personally manage lasers, wet benches, and 3D printers, and see their components enter a product within a few weeks.

Being Honest About the Job

This is not an office job, nor is it a design job. Most of the week is spent at the workbench, wet bench, laser, and machines; some days are a sequence of accurate repetitions, and in each repetition, precision matters more than speed. You won't be leading anyone: in the first years, you're the one doing the work, while the Senior Microfabrication Engineer sets the direction and verifies what you do. If you see this as a step back, this role is not for you. If, however, this is where you want to become very skilled, it's the right role.

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