Experimental Operations Lead - Research

As an Experimental Operations Lead - Research, you will combine technical knowledge with hands-on operational leadership. You will coordinate complex experimental activities, anticipate project needs, and help multidisciplinary teams execute research safely and efficiently.

• Lead operational readiness of research test rigs, experimental setups, instrumentation, and project-specific equipment.
• Coordinate installation, commissioning, maintenance, calibration, modification, relocation, and lifecycle planning of experimental assets.
• Partner with laboratory, facilities, and safety teams to coordinate access, infrastructure needs, safety reviews, and experimental schedules.
• Coordinate equipment procurement, supplier activities, confidentiality agreements, and movement of experimental hardware between ASML sites and external partners.
• Plan experimental activities, identify execution risks, resolve equipment or infrastructure constraints, and balance competing priorities.
• Support research investigations, test planning, root-cause analysis, validation, data collection, technical documentation, and recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional coordination across Research, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, suppliers, and technical partners in Wilton and Veldhoven.

• A bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, applied science, or another relevant technical field.
• Minimum of two years of relevant professional experience in engineering, research, experimental operations, or laboratory environments.
• Experience supporting complex equipment, test rigs, instrumentation, measurement systems, or experimental hardware.
• Experience with technical troubleshooting, root-cause investigation, test methods, and engineering documentation.
• Experience coordinating projects or technical activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and collaborative information-management systems.
• Experience with MATLAB or LabVIEW is preferred.
• Experience in semiconductor, lithography, metrology, cleanroom, vacuum, motion-control, optical, or precision-engineering environments is preferred.

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you'll always have new challenges and new problems to solve - and working together is the only way to do that. You won't work in a silo. Instead, you'll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you'll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You'll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems. To thrive in this job, you'll need the following skills:

• Collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary and global teams.
• Communicate technical priorities, risks, requirements, and trade-offs clearly.
• Organize complex activities while maintaining attention to detail and project timelines.
• Identify problems proactively and drive practical solutions.
• Apply sound technical judgment in changing or less-defined research environments.
• Influence stakeholders and create alignment without relying on direct authority.
• Promote safe working practices and identify risks associated with experimental activities.
• Balance multiple priorities while maintaining ownership of committed outcomes.
• Build inclusive working relationships and actively incorporate different perspectives.
• Share knowledge and support colleagues through technical guidance and mentoring.

• Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• May require travel (domestic and/or international) dependent on business needs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.