Senior Process Architect

As a Senior Process Architect, you will shape how advanced chips are made. Your work will standardize and improve manufacturing processes that power extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems. You will help teams deliver safe, reliable, and repeatable outcomes at scale. This role supports the San Diego factory with close collaboration in Korea and the Netherlands.

You turn complex manufacturing into clear, consistent ways of working. You connect strategy to shop-floor execution and enable continuous improvement across sites.

• Design and implement standardized end‑to‑end manufacturing processes aligned to global ways of working.
• Map process layers from value stream to workstation steps to enable consistent execution.
• Partner with teams in San Diego, Korea, and the Netherlands to drive alignment and adoption.
• Challenge current practices using data and feedback to deliver measurable improvements.
• Translate business needs into clear process designs, standard work, and controls.
• Define ownership and governance for process changes at the site level.
• Maintain responsibility matrices, best practices, and process documentation to ASML standards.

• For the Senior Process Architect role, you bring strong manufacturing and process design expertise.
• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, operations management, business analytics, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years in manufacturing operations, industrial engineering, process architecture, or a related discipline.
• Proven success standardizing processes in complex, high‑mix or high‑tech environments.
• Hands‑on with process modeling and data tools (e.g., BPMN, Microsoft Visio, Python, SQL).
• Familiarity with ERP and planning systems (e.g., SAP) and lean/flow principles.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills across technical and non‑technical audiences.

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:

• Collaborates across sites and disciplines to build trust and drive adoption.
• Communicates clearly with operators, engineers, and leaders.
• Analyzes data to find root causes and quantify impact.
• Simplifies complex processes into clear standards and visuals.
• Leads workshops, secures decisions, and follows through on actions.
• Anticipates risks and puts controls and ownership in place.
• Prioritizes effectively in a fast‑paced, changing environment.
• Acts with curiosity, initiative, and continuous improvement mindset.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch.
• The employee is occasionally required to move around the campus.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• Will require travel dependent on business needs.
• Can work under deadlines.
• The environment generally is moderate in temperature and noise level.
• Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents.
• Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.
• Can learn and apply new information or skills.

The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:

Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.

The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US.

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