Applications Engineering Manager - Semiconductor Metrology

Based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, we are a highly skilled team of more than 125 people and growing rapidly.

We're backed by global financial and industry investors including Applied Ventures, the strategic venture arm of Applied Materials.

Our scientists, engineers and technical specialists are united by a shared mission: enabling the next generation of semiconductor innovation through breakthrough metrology technology.

As our Applications Engineering Manager, you will:

Lead, mentor and develop a growing team of Applications Engineers

Manage delivery of our Early Access Demonstration programme

Work directly with customers to understand use cases, technical challenges and performance requirements

Guide customer demonstrations, feasibility studies and technical evaluations

Act as the escalation point for complex applications and system issues

Support pre-sales activities, technical workshops and customer engagements

Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to translate customer feedback into product improvements

Define and improve application workflows, technical documentation and best practice

Help create scalable approaches for system deployment, optimisation and customer success

Influence future product direction through customer insight and applications expertise

Support prioritisation where customer requirements, engineering resource and product maturity need careful balancing

Applications Engineering, Systems Engineering or another customer-facing technical role

Leading, mentoring or developing engineers within a technical environment

Supporting complex, high-precision metrology, AFM, microscopy or similar instrumentation

Translating customer requirements into practical technical solutions

Delivering customer demonstrations, technical evaluations and system optimisation activities

Troubleshooting complex systems and driving technical problem-solving

Working across mechanical, electronic, software and scientific disciplines

Communicating technical concepts clearly to customers, engineers and stakeholders

Managing competing priorities while maintaining a strong customer experience

Building trusted relationships with demanding technical customers

We're especially interested in hearing from people with experience in:

Semiconductor metrology

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

Surface metrology

Precision instrumentation

Semiconductor process development

Scientific instrumentation

Microscopy or nanoscale measurement technologies

Customer applications engineering

Field applications engineering

Technical product demonstrations

Customer adoption of complex technology solutions

Experience working directly with semiconductor customers

Experience supporting semiconductor fabs or process development teams

Exposure to AFM, metrology, microscopy, inspection or other nanoscale measurement systems

Experience supporting international customers and deployments

Product insight, technical storytelling or pre-sales experience

Understanding of semiconductor manufacturing processes and workflows

Lead a genuinely specialist team in a rapidly growing deep-tech business

Work directly with some of the most advanced semiconductor organisations in the world

Influence product direction, customer adoption and technical strategy

Develop both technical and leadership capability

Help commercialise breakthrough metrology technology

Join a business where your impact is visible and your decisions matter

We'd love to hear from you.

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