Senior Staff Metrology Engineer

About the Company

Level: Senior Staff Engineer (Senior Individual Contributor role; no direct reports)

The HGA Process Development team owns early-stage process invention, feasibility, and KPIV understanding to enable future product requirements. The team builds deep, physics-based process knowledge, focusing on identifying critical KPIVs, defining their relationships to KPOVs, and delivering validated, tool-ready concepts. Development is strongly engineering-driven, with focus on process physics, materials behavior, and reliability, supported by analytical tools such as modeling and FEA.

Location: Teparuk, Thailand. The Teparuk site produces nano-recording heads and offers on-site amenities including a 24/7 canteen and coffee shop, sports and fitness facilities, recreational activities, and employee resource groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead the metrology and characterization strategy for advanced HGA process development, ensuring critical features and process behaviors are accurately measured and understood.
• Define and develop measurement approaches for key KPIVs and KPOVs to enable understanding of process performance, variation, and sensitivity.
• Operate and advance lab-based metrology and characterization tools, providing high-quality data and insights to process engineers.
• Establish correlation between different measurement techniques and tools to ensure consistency, accuracy, and reliability of data across development activities.
• Partner with process architects and tool/controls engineers to align measurement capability with process requirements and support root-cause understanding.
• Collaborate with internal and external metrology teams to leverage specialized tools and capabilities beyond the local lab.
• Define measurement requirements and specifications for new processes and tooling to keep pace with increasing precision and complexity.
• Drive development of data analysis approaches linking measurement results to process behavior, variation, and performance outcomes.
• Support rapid experimentation and learning cycles to provide timely feedback for concept development and decision making, including cross-time-zone engagement with periodic evening meetings.
• Deliver robust characterization methodologies and data sets to enable confident decision making and support downstream process development and scaling.

Qualifications

• Background in metrology, materials characterization, or precision measurement, with experience in engineering or manufacturing environments.
• Experience with lab-based measurement or characterization tools; exposure to optical, mechanical, electrical, or surface analysis techniques is a plus.
• Understanding of measurement fundamentals, including accuracy, repeatability, and correlation across different systems.
• Familiarity with data analysis and interpretation, able to extract meaningful insights from complex or variable data sets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to connect measurement results to underlying process behavior.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and external technical groups and demonstrated initiative and ownership to lead technical direction.
• Good communication skills in English (written and spoken) for effective collaboration with global teams.

Benefits

• 24/7 on-site canteen and coffee shop.
• On-site sports and fitness facilities (running track, gymnasium) and organized activities (volleyball, basketball, table tennis, badminton, football).
• Recreational and cultural activities including music, dance, and aerobic classes, plus lush green areas for relaxation.
• Employee resource groups, on-site festivals, celebrations, and opportunities for community engagement.