Senior Systems Software Engineer — Industrial Fab Automation

ZEISS Group is a pioneer in science with over 177 years of experience, focusing on innovation and technology for a sustainable future. The Senior Systems Software Engineer – Industrial Fab Automation will deliver advanced CT-based inspection solutions for semiconductor packaging, integrating ZEISS Inspect with automation frameworks and ensuring seamless inspection workflows in semiconductor fabs.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement back-end services and interfaces (primarily gRPC) integrating ZEISS Inspect with fab automation frameworks and fab-level controllers
• Develop software supporting wafer navigation and orchestrating end-to-end inspection workflows within semiconductor fabs
• Own service-level concerns including performance, reliability, observability, fault tolerance, and secure deployment
• Build and maintain automated test pipelines, including fab simulators, hardware-/system-in-the-loop testing, and CI/CD workflows
• Collaborate with internal automation, controls, metrology, and computer vision teams, as well as external fab stakeholders, to gather requirements and deliver production-ready integrations
• Integrate with or leverage computer vision frameworks (e.g., Cognex) to support fab workflows where required
• Implement and maintain logging, metrics, and distributed tracing for fab-deployed services to support operations and troubleshooting
• Participate in architecture/design reviews, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Author and maintain technical design documentation, configuration guides, and operational runbooks
• Support root-cause analysis and resolution of issues during fab qualification, pilot runs, and production deployments

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on back-end services or systems software
• Strong coding proficiency in C++ and C#, with working proficiency in Python
• Proven experience designing and building server architectures and networked services (e.g., gRPC or comparable RPC frameworks)
• Hands-on experience with DevOps and automated testing pipelines (e.g., Git-based CI/CD, automated builds and tests, artifact management, and deployment pipelines)
• Solid foundation in software engineering best practices, including version control, code reviews, debugging/profiling, and testable code design
• Experience with fab automation frameworks (e.g., Cimetrix, Kontron, PEER Group)
• Experience with computer vision frameworks (e.g., Cognex) in industrial or semiconductor environments
• Background in industrial automation, including robots, motion systems, PLCs, machine controllers, or factory MES
• Experience developing Windows and Linux services, including containerized and orchestrated environments
• Familiarity with observability practices, performance tuning for high-throughput systems, and secure communication patterns (e.g., Protocol Buffers, RBAC)
• Experience in metrology or semiconductor manufacturing, particularly advanced packaging and wafer-level workflows