Metrology Lab Manager

Role details

About Multibeam

Multibeam is transforming the semiconductor landscape with pioneering e-beam lithography. Our maskless, multi-column direct-write platform delivers full-wafer patterning with exceptional resolution, on a modular architecture built to scale from rapid prototyping to volume production.

Our technology powers advanced packaging, photonics, quantum and other specialized applications behind today’s biggest megatrends, from AI to electric vehicles to next-generation connected devices.

We believe our people are the key to our success. Our team loves what they do and brings unique backgrounds to a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. We are guided by some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley, including Dr. David K. Lam, founder and former CEO of Lam Research. Learn more at multibeamcorp.com.

Position Summary

As Metrology Lab Manager, you’ll own and scale the lab that turns every wafer and sample into fast, trusted answers for our Process and Hardware teams. Your feedback drives recipe improvement and hardware quality — it is the heartbeat of how Multibeam learns.

A lab on the move. Today the lab runs a SEM and a high-power optical/laser confocal microscope. You’ll collaborate on its expansion to multiple SEMs, optical inspection and CD-SEM, and you’ll own the wafer processing steps that feed them, including resist coat and develop.

Built for speed and quality. We image a high volume of samples every day, so speed can be just as critical as image quality. You’ll set the balance for yourself, your technicians and interns — prioritizing the queue, publishing the daily schedule and committed completion times, and keeping results flowing even when priorities shift.

Measure, learn, improve. You’ll establish the tracking methodologies, lab metrics and continuous improvement programs that make the lab faster, more predictable and higher quality every quarter.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the lab: Manage day-to-day operation across SEM, optical inspection, CD-SEM, sample prep, sputter coating, and wafer coat and develop.

• Operate the SEM as needed. You will need to be an expert SEM user to effectively manage the lab’s output, so your guidance and input to the team will be crucial, and actual SEM operation will be needed to maintain the high throughput of the lab.

• Scale the toolset: Help drive the expansion to multiple SEMs, optical inspection and CD-SEM — from tool selection and install support through qualification, recipes and SOPs.

• Support sample flow: Help build a FedEx-style intake, tracking and delivery system for wafers and samples, with clear chain of custody and committed turnaround times.

• Deliver quality data: Own image production, image processing and metrology data that feed recipe improvement for Process and part quality for Hardware.

• Own the schedule: Align daily priorities, publish analysis schedules and expected completion times, and rebalance resources fast when priorities change.

• Build the metrics: Define and report lab KPIs such as turnaround time, throughput, on-time delivery, tool uptime and rework rate.

• Drive continuous improvement: Launch programs that remove bottlenecks, standardize methods and raise both speed and quality.

• Grow the team: Hire, train and coach technicians and interns, and keep the team energized and productive through aggressive schedules.

Why This Is Exciting

• Build and scale groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind technology that’s redefining the industry.

• Shape a metrology lab almost from the ground up — new tools, new flows, and new playbook.

• Be the engine of learning: your data directly decides which recipes and hardware move forward.

• Enable new segments such as quantum computing, next-generation advanced packaging and high-speed photonics.

• Ship real capability — measurable performance and productivity with real-world impact.

What You Bring

You’re a hands-on leader who takes pride in quality, delivers on time, and thrives when priorities move quickly. You organize people and tools so the whole lab runs smoothly.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on SEM experience, including 3+ years leading a metrology lab or team.

• Expert command of SEM imaging: landing energy/acceleration voltage, beam current, raster speed, brightness/contrast, focus and stigmation.

• Strong working knowledge of SE and BSE detectors, and sample coating to mitigate charging.

• Proven record of setting up tracking systems, KPIs and continuous improvement programs in a lab or fab.

• Experience managing high-volume sample queues with committed turnaround times.

• Data-driven: comfortable with image processing, SPC and trending metrology data.

• Clear communicator who partners well with Process and Hardware teams and leads technicians and interns.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• CD-SEM operation, recipe creation and tool matching.

• Optical inspection and laser confocal microscopy.

• Resist coat and develop processing.

• Experience bringing new metrology tools from install through qualification.

• Familiarity with LIMS, Jira or similar job-tracking systems, and Lean or Six Sigma methods.

Job Type: Full Time, On Site

Benefits

401k, Health & Dental Benefits

Pay: $130,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person