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Title: Senior Principal Engineer – Product Sustainability Performance (PSP)<

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Position Summary: The Senior Principal Engineer, Product Sustainability Performance will drive execution to achieve and sustain competitive advantage in all aspects of PSP across ASM’s product portfolio.<

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Semiconductor fab equipment lifecycle energy and resource efficiency is a key driver of fab economics and translates directly into manufacturing equipment performance requirements as a critical competitive selection factor. Equally, with the strategic importance of the semiconductor industry, our customers will receive increasingly acute attention to the sustainability performance of their fabs, and in turn require further innovation from their suppliers. Ultimately, the necessary performance gains can only be achieved through collaboration.<

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This highly visible role will form, inspire, and lead a cross-functional, cross-geography, multi-cultural, internal and external participant innovation and development network:<

· Internal: (e.g., Corporate R&D (CRD) Technologists, Key Product Unit (KPU) Leaders, Key Customer Account Team Leaders, Product and Platform Development Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Services/Spares, Corporate Marketing, Finance, Legal, et al.<

· External: key customers, suppliers, and other partners (e.g., universities, domain-expert consultants, et al.)<

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The ASM product portfolio includes Thermal and Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD/PEALD), Plasma<

Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PDCVD), Epitaxy, Low Pressure CVD and Diffusion, and Services and Spares offerings to enable customer roadmaps and operational success.<

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ASM has principal locations in Europe, U.S., and Asia, as well as customers, suppliers, and key partners across these geographies. Business travel of approximately ~20%, with a likely higher percentage in the first 1-2 years, will be necessary to create the strategic plan, catalyze and mobilize the network, and communicating to key internal and external stakeholders.

This role will be based at a key ASM location, preferably: Phoenix U.S., and will interface with internal organizations and customers globally.

Level: Senior Principal Engineer

Structure: The position reports to Samer Banner, VP of Hardware Platform

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Critical Success Factors:<

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· Leadership: Inspire and lead a multi-national/cultural, cross-functional, internal and external network with exceptional team unity and spirit.<

· Strategy and Execution: Define strategy, objectives, and investment required to achieve sustained competitive advantage in Product Sustainability Performance, aligned with overall ASM strategic plans and operational goals. Translate the strategy into an effective implementation plan and commercialization.<

· Customer Focus: Continuously assess, validate, and deliver to customer requirements and expectations consistent with ASM’s industry-leading brand aspirations.<

· Innovation: Drive innovation in all aspects of Product Sustainability Performance.<

· Trust and IP Protection: Ensure bedrock trust and IP protection of all parties in the collaboration network.<

· Communications: Establish and maintain exceptional network and stakeholder communications with emphasis on customer communications to create confidence in the ASM strategy and progress against it.<

· Results Orientation: Translate the strategy into results. Maintain focus on what matters most. Embed product sustainability in ASM DNA.<

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Education:<

· BS Degree in technical field Material Science, Electrical, Chemical Engineering or equivalent (required)<

· MBA, Masters, or PhD in relevant engineering or scientific field strongly preferred<

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Experience:<

· >10 years of experience working in front-end semiconductor device fabrication or semiconductor equipment technology (required)<

· 3-5 years in semiconductor process, hardware, or device experience in semiconductors<

· 5+ years in program management and/or marketing, sales or customer support roles preferred<

· International work experience, understanding collaborating, and communicating effectively across different cultures<

· Demonstrated success leading substantial scale and impact initiatives<

· Customer Engagement – Accurately assess market requirements and roadmaps and present and validate technical marketing materials and product/program value propositions. Lead or support (as applicable) technical meetings with customers, suppliers, and other partners. Create and manage program presentations with detailed market and competitive analysis.<

· Semiconductor fab - Understands how different front-end capital equipment systems function individually and the process flow in the overall fab environment and then translate that to a full fab system understanding. Examples:<

o Determine chemical consumption and abatement from a deposition tool process on a per tool basis, and then at a full fab usage level<

o Identify innovative, high-value opportunities to conserve energy across a broad/complex fab system including upstream and downstream processes.

· Competitive analysis - Industry experience and acumen to accurately assess competitive position, trajectory, and competitive opportunity

· Supplier and Partner Engagement – Work with Engineering, Global Operations team, and others as needed to engage key suppliers and partners as necessary in design and development collaborations as needed to support ASM PSP strategy and roadmap

· Roadmap – Own the program market requirements (MRS) and roadmap, ensure product development priorities align with MRS and customer requirements<

· Strategic marketing – Detailed market analysis for inflections, development of product strategy and positioning, pricing strategy, business plans, and internal executive alignment to meet business objectives.<

· Financial – work with finance on NPV and IRR for products, maintain cost of ownership models; market share analysis and gross margin enhancement<

· Product development - Lead the development and execution of global PSP strategy and roadmap for entire product portfolio (including common platform hardware and software, supply chain, and services/spares). This includes roadmap updates through discussions with customers, suppliers, internal teams, and other external partners with alignment on priorities and resources.<

· Product Promotion – Create promotional materials for customer meetings, product launches, technical conferences, and sales and support product training<

· Product management - Demonstrated success in managing products through all phases of development, including market introduction and ongoing management<

· Strong experience and demonstrated effectiveness working with semiconductor capital equipment supply chain<

· High proficiency in technical and economic modeling and analysis, creating presentation materials, oral presentation, project management<