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Senior Development Engineer Product Realiability (f/m/x)

ZEISS
Jena; Oberkochen Posted Sep 28, 2026
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Senior Development Engineer Product Realiability (f/m/x)

locations Jena

Oberkochen

time type

Full time

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Posted Today

job requisition id

JR_1053174

ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology

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

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

  • You are responsible for Reliability Engineering and Technical Risk Management for complex processes and machinery within a highly innovative research and development environment.
  • Leveraging your expertise as a developer/system engineer, you proactively contribute to sustainable project success by applying appropriate Design for Reliability concepts and your knowledge of process assurance.
  • Together with our international customers and suppliers, you define and coordinate activities to ensure the required level of reliability.
  • You actively manage the various interfaces and reduce risk through effective networking and collaboration across teams and functions.
  • You support our interdisciplinary teams in root cause analysis in cases of customer complaints or field incidents, assess their impact on reliability, and develop and implement appropriate corrective actions.

Your Profile

  • You have successfully completed a degree in a scientific or engineering discipline.
  • You have several years of professional experience as a development or systems engineer in an international high-tech research and development environment.
  • You have in-depth methodological expertise in Reliability Engineering or process development, Six Sigma, FMEA, and statistical methods.
  • Ideally, you have experience in the field of Physics of Failure (e.g., failure mechanisms or degradation effects) and their modeling.
  • You are well organized and communicate confidently in both German and English, enabling you to collaborate effectively across different interfaces and present your results clearly and convincingly.
  • You are enthusiastic about working in an interdisciplinary role that offers ample scope for personal initiative.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Janina Kalmbach

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