Virtual Compute Platform Software Engineer

Intro

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of semiconductor-chip-making equipment. A majority of the world’s microchips receive their critical lithographic patterning in machines made by ASML. In addition ASML produces metrology tools and advanced applications to analyze and optimize 
the performance of the customer production process.

Sector and department information

Within ASML, the sector Development and Engineering (D&E) is responsible for the specification, design, integration, qualification, and sustaining of all ASML products. Taking advantage of customer and manufacturing proximity, the D&E Applications of the ASML Center of Excellence (ACE) is located in Linkou, Taiwan

Position in the Organization

The holder of the position reports to the Manager of ACE D&E in BL Apps

Job Mission

Participate in the development of our distributed data and compute platform infrastructure (on premise cloud solution). Be accurate, be precise and own the specification, design and implementation of features and fixes. Onboard, integrate and configure open source or other packages that support the development of semiconductor process tuning applications on the ASML platform. 

Take initiatives in reducing manual actions for install & upgrade, resolve structural stability issues and design automated tests suites to qualify both design and system setup on customer site. Investigate & solve issues, identify root cause, containment, corrective and preventive actions, and work with customer teams to support TSMC, Micron, Samsung, China and many others.

Geographical Workplace

ACE (ASML Taiwan, Linkou). Travel to the customer sites or the development headquarters (HQ) in the Netherlands for on-the-job training may be needed as part of the assignment

Job Description

You will be working in the virtual compute platform (VCP) and ensure the platform can host analytics applications with the uptime expectation of 4 nine’s (99.99%) in the semiconductor factories of our customers. 

The platform is currently developed based on Kubernetes and DC/OS and migration from DC/OS to Kubernetes is in-progress.  We develop the platform aspects in our team. Scheduling of resources, containerization, fail-over and data collection from scanner and measurement devices inside the fab.

Installations and upgrades are automated with Ansible and Python. Other technologies you may encounter are Spark for data processing, Kafka for notifications and high volume data ingestion. Hadoop and HBASE are used for data storage.

Responsibilities of this role: 

• Develop and deliver new, key features that have high customer impact and help improve the operation efficiency of customer teams (a.k.a. CS/MO)

• Support VCP go-lives and complex activities at customers such as D&E on-site / on-duty, escalation handling and containment creation

• Bridge D&E teams in Netherlands and customer teams in the field to speed up issue handling and solve field issues directly in Asia

• Join VCP system qualification to fill customer IT gaps in system test and test automation to increase platform reliability and system resilience

Educational Level

A relevant BSc or MSc in the area of software engineering, computer science, information systems, IT or MIS

Profile

• Solid experience with Kubernetes, Python and Ansible 

• Experience with automatic testing and qualification, if can be part of CI/CD pipeline 

• Affinity to dig deep into the details of issues, e.g. container orchestration, networking, configuration 

• Linux expertise, administrator, extensive experience troubleshooting complex Linux issues 

• Networking expertise, understand TCP/IP protocol, troubleshoot firewall config issues, etc. 

• Understands RHEV and Virtual Machines 

• Experience with the following technologies is plus: event & messaging, security, storage solutions (e.g., Hadoop), alert & monitoring solutions and cloud technology (Azure, AWS or GCP) 

Personal Skills

• Enjoy working with people and willingly face the challenges that come with human interactions

• Collaborate behaviors: plan and align, manage stakeholders, adapt to changes, and drive for results

• Accountable and able to communicate professionally with SW/non-SW colleagues worldwide

• Customer values and quality oriented. You strive to find the best ways or solutions for top results

• Problem solving. Proven ability to work independently in a team setting and a multi-site environment

• Personal values: taking initiative, growth mindset, continuous improvement and agile development

• Fluent spoken and written English or willing to learn/develop

Inclusion and diversity

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

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