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 defining software architecture for the next generations of lithography systems, driving the progress in the semiconductor industry finding the best solutions for embedded control systems, considering modularity and sustainability, hardware limitations and performance specifications analyzing system requirements, negotiating technical requirements and proposing solution options with the team maintaining consistency/compatibility with the legacy and technical solutions space that is available internally and externally across products proving technical feasibility and guiding the dev-teams during implementation and verification defining work packages and integration plans - thereby steering internal and external development hands-on creation of prototypes, PoC's and final software, also promoting new technologies, concepts and ideas to drive innovation leading communications with internal and external stakeholders like systems engineers, software developers, project managers/POs and electronics teams definitive contributions to our technology roadmap by providing your ideas and supporting innovation Your Profile studies in Engineering, Control Systems, Mathematics, Physics or similar - Masters desirable you have proven experience as a software developer or architect in a professional software development environment for bare metal controllers (C/C++), real-time operating systems (Linux) or similar machine-oriented applications you have an excellent understanding of real-time applications like fast embedded control systems additionally you have in-depth knowledge of another technical domain, for example software under real-time operating systems you can efficiently develop optimum solutions using the latest tools and methods in low level programming and you are able to present them convincingly to management and stakeholders you can communicate clearly, precisely and with empathy and have a passion to successfully solve complex challenges independently and in a team optionally you have experience with VHDL or similar languages good English and optionally German language Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Matthias Sonnentag