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# Senior Layout Application Engineer

- **Company:** PDF Solutions
- **Location:** München, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €110,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Configuration Management, Computerised Systems, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a95e02d1af7b0f39

## About the Role

* Bachelor degree or higher in computer science, electrical engineering, physics or similar

 * Knowledge of computer systems
 * Communication skills for interaction with clients as well as internal engineers (English language)
 * Attentiveness to detail to ensure all parts of an application come together and work as intended
 * Working global hours (if needed) and ability to travel (occasionally)

Nice to Have

 * Problem-solving skills
 * Good geometrical understanding
 * Experience with state-of-the-art semiconductor layouts

## Description

Among the products of PDF Solutions is eprobe, an electron beam inspection machine with unique capabilities. This machine especially benefits from layout information for quality and throughput. The task is to apply the inhouse PDF layout software to extract the information needed by eprobe, ranging from simply running existing setups to make modifications, checking correctness of the results and optimizing w.r.t. throughput goals.
Responsibilities:

 * Installation, setup and maintenance of the software

 * Gathering information from customers on their needs
 * Contribute to customer presentations
 * Translate abstract descriptions of geometries into software configurations/scripts
 * For new software configuration, design testcases and run tests to make sure it works as intended
 * Setup job runs and supervise them
 * Troubleshooting problems with software and create fixes/workarounds


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