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For this position we are also open for an interim contractor solution. ZZP. Preferred startdate asap. To keep pace with the soaring demand for semiconductor performance and precision, Nearfield Instruments is developing and building cutting-edge 3D metrology systems. As a seasoned engineer in the mechatronics team, you will take the technical lead for one or more critical modules or subsystems in our revolutionary machines. Bridging the gap between system-level ambitions and design execution, you'll translate performance requirements into clear, realizable concepts — and ensure they’re delivered with excellence. Would you like to work at the forefront of high-tech innovation while playing a key role in our next stage of growth? Join us and lead the development of next-generation metrology solutions with direct impact on our clients and the semiconductor industry worldwide. What you’re going to do As a Senior Mechatronics Engineer, you are technically responsible for a subsystem or module; from first concept to volume production and beyond. Working closely with System Engineering and Architects, you will translate system-level KPIs into innovative mechatronic solutions. You will participate in multidisciplinary teams to design and realize complex high-precision modules, ensuring they meet ambitious targets for performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost.   Your main responsibilities include: Translating performance requirements into subsystem concepts, functional architectures, and engineering requirements. Taking technical ownership of high-precision motion modules, ensuring alignment between disciplines and stakeholders. Designing and integrating advanced mechatronic solutions involving air bearings, precision mechanics, actuation, sensing, and control systems. Making key design decisions regarding motion system architecture, dynamics, vibration control, thermal stability, sensing, actuation, and system integration. Driving the development of precision positioning systems capable of achieving demanding accuracy and stability requirements. Leading design trade-offs between performance, manufacturability, reliability, risk, and cost. Performing system modelling, simulation, testing, and validation to verify performance and identify improvement opportunities. Shaping subsystem roadmaps in line with company and customer technology roadmaps. Coaching and guiding engineers within project teams by reviewing designs, simulations, and integration plans. Supporting industrialization, validation, and successful release of subsystems into manufacturing and field use. Collaborating closely with System Architects, Control Engineers, Software Engineers, and Precision Mechanics specialists to deliver technically robust solutions. Job requirements Who you are You are a systems thinker with a strong mechatronics background and a passion for precision engineering. You combine analytical depth with a practical, hands-on mentality, enjoying the challenge of translating complex requirements into tangible solutions. You thrive in multidisciplinary, high-tech environments where performance, innovation, and technical ownership go hand in hand.   You Have MSc or PhD in Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Control Engineering, Precision Engineering, or a related field. At least 5 years of relevant experience in the development of high-precision mechatronic systems or motion platforms.   Strong expertise in areas such as: Mechatronic system architecture and subsystem design Precision motion systems and positioning technology Air bearing technology and precision stage design Dynamics, vibration analysis, and structural behaviour Precision sensing and actuation systems Motion control and system integration System modelling, simulation, and experimental validation Experience in multidisciplinary development projects from concept through qualification and release. Proficiency with modelling and simulation tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, FEM, and Python. Strong communication and technical leadership skills. Excellent command of English, both written and spoken.   Preferred Experience: Air bearing-based motion systems. Semiconductor, metrology, or other high-precision equipment. Precision stage development and integration. Cleanroom and contamination-controlled environments. High-performance mechatronic systems combining mechanics, controls, electronics, and software.

For this position we are also open for an interim contractor solution. ZZP. Preferred startdate asap. To keep pace with the soaring demand for semiconductor performance and precision, Nearfield Instruments is developing and building cutting-edge 3D metrology systems. As a seasoned engineer in the mechatronics team, you will take the technical lead for one or more critical modules or subsystems in our revolutionary machines. Bridging the gap between system-level ambitions and design execution, you'll translate performance requirements into clear, realizable concepts — and ensure they’re delivered with excellence. Would you like to work at the forefront of high-tech innovation while playing a key role in our next stage of growth? Join us and lead the development of next-generation metrology solutions with direct impact on our clients and the semiconductor industry worldwide. What you’re going to do As a Senior Mechatronics Engineer, you are technically responsible for a subsystem or module; from first concept to volume production and beyond. Working closely with System Engineering and Architects, you will translate system-level KPIs into innovative mechatronic solutions. You will participate in multidisciplinary teams to design and realize complex high-precision modules, ensuring they meet ambitious targets for performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost.   Your main responsibilities include: Translating performance requirements into subsystem concepts, functional architectures, and engineering requirements. Taking technical ownership of high-precision motion modules, ensuring alignment between disciplines and stakeholders. Designing and integrating advanced mechatronic solutions involving air bearings, precision mechanics, actuation, sensing, and control systems. Making key design decisions regarding motion system architecture, dynamics, vibration control, thermal stability, sensing, actuation, and system integration. Driving the development of precision positioning systems capable of achieving demanding accuracy and stability requirements. Leading design trade-offs between performance, manufacturability, reliability, risk, and cost. Performing system modelling, simulation, testing, and validation to verify performance and identify improvement opportunities. Shaping subsystem roadmaps in line with company and customer technology roadmaps. Coaching and guiding engineers within project teams by reviewing designs, simulations, and integration plans. Supporting industrialization, validation, and successful release of subsystems into manufacturing and field use. Collaborating closely with System Architects, Control Engineers, Software Engineers, and Precision Mechanics specialists to deliver technically robust solutions. Job requirements Who you are You are a systems thinker with a strong mechatronics background and a passion for precision engineering. You combine analytical depth with a practical, hands-on mentality, enjoying the challenge of translating complex requirements into tangible solutions. You thrive in multidisciplinary, high-tech environments where performance, innovation, and technical ownership go hand in hand.   You Have MSc or PhD in Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Control Engineering, Precision Engineering, or a related field. At least 5 years of relevant experience in the development of high-precision mechatronic systems or motion platforms.   Strong expertise in areas such as: Mechatronic system architecture and subsystem design Precision motion systems and positioning technology Air bearing technology and precision stage design Dynamics, vibration analysis, and structural behaviour Precision sensing and actuation systems Motion control and system integration System modelling, simulation, and experimental validation Experience in multidisciplinary development projects from concept through qualification and release. Proficiency with modelling and simulation tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, FEM, and Python. Strong communication and technical leadership skills. Excellent command of English, both written and spoken.   Preferred Experience: Air bearing-based motion systems. Semiconductor, metrology, or other high-precision equipment. Precision stage development and integration. Cleanroom and contamination-controlled environments. High-performance mechatronic systems combining mechanics, controls, electronics, and software.

About Nearfield Instruments Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a fast-growing scale-up high-tech company. We design, develop, integrate, market and service advanced metrology machines. Our machines enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers – to increase the production yields, and thus, functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Where you will be working? Within our Design & Engineering department this role is part of the Software Group. The SW Group consists of roughly 40 engineers within several teams working on the areas of Machine Control, Device Control, Integration and Data Science. Our technology stack is based on Cand Python but our true passion lies making customer solutions. Here are the different aspects of our stack: Machine Control: business logic, UI and semiconductor-foundry communication logic of our machines, giving commands to device control. Device Control: governing the motion and measurement aspects of our machine in close collaboration with mechatronics engineers in cross disciplinary teams. Data Science: Converting signals into images into KPI’s for our customers. Integration: Making sure individually tested components work together and with our machine. Further, there are cross-cutting concerns of customer integrations, cybersecurity, computation, requirement gathering and AI where architects play a crucial role. What will you be doing? You will take a responsible for the architecture, design, and lifecycle management of one of the aspects above, while taking the lead in one of the cross-cutting concerns. At the same time, you will have a deep understanding of our domain, our machine and use this to perform requirement-analysis and come up with MVP-proposal so that we can truly be agile. Your responsibilities include: Collecting requirements from (Internal) Customers and translate product requirements to SW level requirements for large projects Making a high-level architecture and design to fulfill both SW level requirements and product requirements Leading the development of multiple features along with a handful of other developers Troubleshooting technical issues that involve software development, engineering tasks and product releases Driving software quality and reliability through structured testing strategies, validation, and continuous improvement Proactively identifying system-level risks and resolving complex technical issues Leading and supporting the integration of multi-disciplinary subsystems Acting as a mentor and escalation point for senior software engineers While software architecture is mostly a post-developer role, you are expected to stay hands-on and enjoy locking yourself in and turning your brilliant ideas in to production code. That said, we don’t care what language you have developed in as long as its modern. Why is this position interesting for you? You take ownership of complex technical systems and make architectural decisions You are recognized as a subject matter expert within the organization You work on high-performance mechatronic systems using advanced technologies You operate in an environment where engineering excellence and autonomy are valued Job requirements As a scaleup, we can provide phenomenal learning and development opportunities but can also be a hectic environment at times. You should understand agile quite well. You embrace the culture and keep working on following aspects such as customer collaboration, Individuals and interaction, responding to change over following a structured plan, prototyping/working solutions over comprehensive documentation. Education: Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Physics or Electronics Above 10 years of experience in software development Above 7 years of experience in software architecture and design Experience with modern software development practices, languages and tools (git, CI/CD, automated testing, JIRA, C, Python, PlantUML and use of LLMs) Outstanding communication skills: You can describe a complex technical topic in 2 sentences to a non-software person Above 7 years of experience with precision equipment or semiconductor industry Coaching ability, as a technical advisor, you make sure that the team stays up-to-date with relevant knowledge Ability to influence other lead engineers, managers and teams in the organization and convince them of your technical vision and direction

Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a fast-growing scale-up high-tech company. We design, develop, integrate, market and service advanced metrology machines. Our machines enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers – to increase the production yields, and thus, functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Where you will be working? Within our Design & Engineering department this role is part of the Software Group. The SW Group consists of roughly 40 engineers within several teams working on the areas of Machine Control, Device Control, Integration and Data Science. Our technology stack is based on Cand Python but our true passion lies making customer solutions. Here are the different aspects of our stack: Machine Control: business logic, UI and semiconductor-foundry communication logic of our machines, giving commands to device control. Device Control: governing the motion and measurement aspects of our machine in close collaboration with mechatronics engineers in cross disciplinary teams. Data Science: Converting signals into images into KPI’s for our customers. Integration: Making sure individually tested components work together and with our machine. Further, there are cross-cutting concerns of customer integrations, cybersecurity, computation, requirement gathering and AI where architects play a crucial role. What will you be doing? You will take a responsible for the architecture, design, and lifecycle management of one of the aspects above, while taking the lead in one of the cross-cutting concerns. At the same time, you will have a deep understanding of our domain, our machine and use this to perform requirement-analysis and come up with MVP-proposal so that we can truly be agile. Your responsibilities include: Collecting requirements from (Internal) Customers and translate product requirements to SW level requirements for large projects Making a high-level architecture and design to fulfill both SW level requirements and product requirements Leading the development of multiple features along with a handful of other developers Troubleshooting technical issues that involve software development, engineering tasks and product releases Driving software quality and reliability through structured testing strategies, validation, and continuous improvement Proactively identifying system-level risks and resolving complex technical issues Leading and supporting the integration of multi-disciplinary subsystems Acting as a mentor and escalation point for senior software engineers While software architecture is mostly a post-developer role, you are expected to stay hands-on and enjoy locking yourself in and turning your brilliant ideas in to production code. That said, we don’t care what language you have developed in as long as its modern.