

ASML is one of the world's leading providers of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or microchips. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML designs, develops, integrates, markets and services these advanced systems, which continue to help our customers - the major chipmakers - reduce the size and increase the functionality of microchips, and consumer electronic equipment.
Are you an internationally driven team player who enjoys the company of brilliant minds? Are you passionate about solving complex technological problems? If so, you'll find working at ASML a highly rewarding experience. Per employee, we're Europe's second largest private investor in R&D. This gives you the freedom to experiment in a culture where you can get things done.
Join ASML's expanding multidisciplinary teams and help us to continue pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
| Branche(s) | Omzet | Medewerkers nationaal |
| Industrie / productie / Onderwijs / Onderzoek / Zakelijke dienstverlening | € 4.500.000.000,- | 5000 medewerkers |
| Functiegebieden | Aantal vestigingen | Medewerkers internationaal |
| Onderwijs / Onderzoek / Techniek | 4 vestigingen | 7000 medewerkers |
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| Europa / Azië / Noord-Amerika |
ASML creates the conditions for employees to contribute great ideas, grow their careers and do their best work. We're known as a company that encourages new ideas and where opportunity is wide open. Our human resources organization operates globally to ensure that you have a clear understanding of your job and future career path.
Professional growth brings value to you, your colleagues and the business. Therefore, we promise a career track, not just a job. A career within ASML means working in a very stimulating and challenging environment.
We strive to reward employees competitively for their performance and provide motivating working conditions, including coaching, training and personal career development programs.
Depending on your own interest and qualifications, you can have a career in technology. Or you can choose a managerial career path. Flexibility, enthusiasm, ambition and customer-orientation are essential criteria for all directions. If you meet these criteria, then there will be a world of opportunities open to you.
ASML develops some of the most advanced and complicated systems in the world. Our market is extremely fast moving and our customers very demanding. So we're constantly pushing the boundaries of technology in many different areas and against very tight deadlines. That makes ASML a very challenging place to work. But it also gives you the opportunity to grow in any direction you want - often faster than in other companies.
At ASML, you drive your career - with a few navigational tips from us along the way. Start in a technical role, and within a few years you could decide to take your career in a new direction by moving into people or project management. Or you could decide to stay in the technical domain, building an entire career while extending the depth and breadth of your technical knowledge. The decision to switch path is up to you, your aspirations and your skills. And it's a decision you can make multiple times as your career develops.
At ASML we bring together the most creative minds with various backgrounds, skills and competencies in order to develop ground breaking technologies. We are always looking for professionals with a background in:
•Chemistry
•Electronic Engineering
•Information Technology
•Physics
•Mechanical Engineering
•Software Engineering
Here you will find detailed information about the work involved in each subject area. The challenges you will face, the stimulating colleagues you will work with and the breakthroughs that will become an everyday part of your life. You will also learn more about the unmatched career development opportunities we offer. No matter what your background, there is plenty to excite you at ASML.
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Opleiding:
Functie: Application Engineer Customer Support
What does an Application Engineer do?
Working in the Productivity Group at Application and Business Support, my goal is to help customers maximize the number of wafers out from their system. The lithography system is the most expensive part of the customer's production line, so everything else is tuned to run at the speed of our system. That means the faster we can run, the faster the whole production line can run.
To make those gains, we have to look at how the system fits into the customer's set up. We tune the system according to the customer's process requirements, and analyze their whole lithography cell to reduce cycle time and increase the number of wafers per day.
Room to grow
I studied for a Masters in Systems Engineering, which gave me the basic knowledge about optimizing productivity in complex systems and lines. After that, I worked in R&D at a large truck manufacturer, where I was responsible for noise and dynamical behavior testing. That background gave me a good base to start my job here as an Application Productivity Engineer.
When I switched jobs, I still wanted to work with complex machines and big production lines. And you can think of lithography systems as a big production line themselves. But I also wanted to work for a company that gives you room to grow your technical knowledge and personal skills

Opleiding:
Functie: Team leader embedded software development
ASML is rightly proud of its technological accomplishments. Some other technology companies could do the things we do - if they had the time. But we do it faster. Our lead time for development is very short. That's one of the things that first drew me to ASML: that time challenge and the buzz it brings.
I really enjoy working at ASML because, although it is a very big company, it still has some of the benefits of a small company. You have the opportunity to try a lot of things, and grow to become a generalist in your specialist subject. And then you can move to a completely new subject. Up to now I've led three teams in three different areas.
You also have the chance to be an entrepreneur but you have to be able to sell you ideas to your colleagues. That sums ASML up in a lot of ways; you have lots of opportunities to develop yourself in areas you find fun but it is up to you to take those opportunities.
ASML brings together teams of people with completely different backgrounds: physicists, engineers, chemists. It's great to see their different approaches to problem solving. But we all have the same goals, so we have to speak the same language.
That's why communication is important. It's probably a team leader's biggest challenge (your team members handle the technical challenges). Everyone needs to know what's going on, but you don't want to over-communicate. People need time to actually do their job. So you have to make your communication very efficient.
As a team leader, people often come to me for advice. It's my job to solve problems in a way that benefits others and makes them enthusiastic about what they are doing. Helping others succeed is very satisfying. Probably the best part about being a team leader is seeing people you've coached grow, develop and go on to be successful in their own right
