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As Team Lead – Flex Foundry you help build and lead our growing Foundry Product Line. As Team Lead Flex Foundry, you own this chain end-to-end: from customer needs and product roadmap, through design rules, sourcing and development, to manufacturing, testing and delivery. This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining product, technology, customers, people and operations. You will report to our CPO and Co-Founder of Delft Circuits.

Our Foundry operation enables customers to design and manufacture advanced flexible circuits using Delft Circuits’ technology. We develop and maintain our Foundry product offering and roadmap, including the design rules and Process Design Kit (PDK), support customers with their designs, manufacture their products and perform basic testing.

• Own and drive the Foundry product roadmap, translating customer and market needs into priorities for new capabilities, products and improvements
• Own and further develop the Foundry offering, including its PDK, design rules, manufacturing capabilities and testing
• Work directly with customers to understand their applications, assess designs, define technical solutions and turn opportunities into executable projects
• Coordinate product and process development with our Research and Process Development teams and bring new capabilities into the Foundry offering
• Lead the day-to-day Foundry operation, including planning people, equipment, materials and shared lab capacity
• Drive product quality, repeatability, yield and continuous improvement in manufacturing and testing
• Manage technical relationships with external suppliers and project partners for substrates, materials and specialized fabrication steps
• Lead, coach and grow the Foundry team while remaining closely involved in technical and product challenges
• Ensure learnings from customers, projects and manufacturing feed back into the product roadmap, design rules and future Foundry capabilities
• You will report to the CPO (Co-Founder Delft-Circuits)

• A PhD in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Applied Physics, Nanotechnology, Microelectronics or a related field, or equivalent industrial experience
• At least 5 years of experience on top of the PhD in a semiconductor fab, flex/PCB manufacturing, microfabrication or comparable high-tech manufacturing environment
• Strong technical understanding of materials, fabrication processes, products and manufacturability
• The ability to translate customer and market needs into product requirements and a technical roadmap
• Experience leading people or technical teams in a development or manufacturing environment
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to coordinate people, projects, equipment and competing priorities
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with Research, Engineering, suppliers, project partners and customers
• Experience working directly with customers, including scoping technical projects and turning customer needs into solutions
• An entrepreneurial mindset: you identify opportunities and find practical ways to turn them into products and customer projects