Design Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronic, or related Engineering discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of R&D or product development experience in semiconductor equipment, automation systems, or precision machinery.
• At least 3 years of experience leading hardware design or cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical and electrical system design, motion control, and vacuum/optics integration.
• Proven experience managing complex projects from concept to production release.
• Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Fluent in Mandarin; working proficiency in English preferred.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience with high-precision alignment, wafer handling, or bonding equipment.
• Familiarity with design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-for-assembly (DFA) principles.
• Hands-on leadership style with a strong sense of ownership and technical depth.

Characteristic

• Teamwork: Able to working in a cross function and international environment.
• Self-learning: Able to collect information to improve your knowledge pool, and also help the growth of the team by sharing knowledge.
• Proactive: Willing to tackle with technical challenges and the mindset of seeking solutions for continuous improvement.
• Planning: Result oriented thoughts for assigned task and project.

Business travel requirement

• Less than 2 month a year.

Design Engineering Manager TW

Tasks

• Managing and developing a team of 15 engineers with expertise in CAD, electronics and optics
• Defining and prioritising work packages
• Technical communication with customers in TW
• Communication with project managers and other stake holders in Taiwan and Germany
• Implementation and continuous optimization of engineering processes and tools

Skills

• Very good communication skills
• Good command of English
• University degree and background that match the engineering team (mechanics, electronics, optics, semiconductor, physics)
• Affinity with the semiconductor industry
• Experience in leading or coordinating engineering teams