Jobs / engineering
Software Architect
Nearfield Instruments · Rotterdam
What they look for
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
About the company
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.