Head of Systems Engineering DUV (f/m/x)

zeissgroup· Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
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📍 Jena📍 Oberkochen📍 RoßdorfFull time

About this role

ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology​

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Enabler for smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips​

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Working for tomorrow today. ​

Around 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are produced using ZEISS technologies. As the centerpiece of every electronically controlled system, they have become an integral part of our everyday lives – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and process control solutions, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, increasingly powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips, and thus plays a pivotal role in the age of micro- and nanoelectronics.

Your Role

  • Responsibility for the strategic and operational development of Systems Engineering in the DUV environment.

  • Establishment of standards, roles, and interfaces for architecture, requirements management, roadmaps, and decision processes.

  • Technical and disciplinary development of Systems Engineering roles.

  • Harmonization of activities across products, programs, and product lines

  • Ensuring consistent roadmaps, system architectures, requirements, and interfaces in alignment with programs, product management, and development.

  • Management of program-agnostic initiatives (task forces, focus teams, pre-feasibility).

  • Transparency on backlogs, reports, risks, and dependencies; well-founded positions toward stakeholders.

  • Continuing development of the Systems Engineering community and the Product & Solution Generation Process.

Your Profile

  • Completed university degree (ideally PhD) in engineering or natural sciences.

  • Many years of experience in systems engineering, product development, or technical program management of complex high-tech systems.

  • Proven technical and/or disciplinary leadership responsibility as well as team/role development.

  • Proficient in systems engineering methods, requirements management, system architecture, roadmaps, and program management.

  • Ability to structure and present complex technical, economic, and organizational contexts in a decision-ready way.

  • Strong stakeholder management, communication skills, assertiveness, and confident presence at all levels (including internationally). Entrepreneurial mindset: solution-oriented, with a view to portfolio, scalability, risks, and feasibility.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Janina Kalmbach

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