Software engineering internship: yieldstar optical column tooling

This internship offers both technical and organizational challenges and will give the intern a very thorough view of how Yieldstar products are
created and how the R&D around it is organized. The internship position consists of two different assignments.

Your Assignment

Assignment 1: Yieldstar Optical Column ART tooling improvements

ASML Yieldstar is an optical metrology tool that can quickly and accurately measure the quality of patterns on the wafer. In Yieldstar, multidisciplinary teams collaborate in a Agile Release Trains. One of these ARTs is the Yieldstar Optical Column ART. The train consists of 10 multidisciplinary teams and share a common way of working (and hence, tooling).

To further enhance inter-team collaboration the ART can benefit from improved tooling (catering for better planning and stakeholder alignment). Onboarding and requirements gathering will form the initial part of the internship. Next up, multiple different tools can be extended/enhanced, of which the most important are:

1. A Holiday Helper application (C#) which:

• Helps the scrum master in automatically determining availability of the team. 

• Takes into account FTE percentages of the respective team members.

• Filters per competency to make PI planning easier.

2. A 6-PI planner application (JavaScript/Python) which:

• Needs to be extended to also be able to use Power BI to a larger extent (cater for e.g. scenario play for Product Owners/Scrum Masters).

• Needs additional drag-and-drop capabilities for features that need to be carried over Program Increments.

• Needs additional conversion-methods for Chief Product Owners (for instance: Story Points to FTE).

• Needs synchronization with JIRA Align.

• Provides imports from e.g. Excel.

Apart from these tools more applications can be worked on, but this at least gives an idea of the challenging context. During the internship you will use:

• C#

• Python

• JavaScript

• HTML

The internship will help us advance in-ART-collaboration and as such the intern will be able to leave a solid mark on our way of working. When successful, the tooling can be adopted in other ARTs in ASML as well.

Highlights:

• Challenging tasks.

• Be part of one of the multidisciplinary teams in Yieldstar.

• Experience working in a scrum team under the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), in an Agile Release Train.

• Be supervised by a software expert.

• Get to know more about the Software Development Life Cycles in a real-life product.

Assignment 2: Yieldstar unrestricted test mode

ASML YieldStar is an optical metrology tool that can quickly and accurately measure the quality of patterns on the wafer. Due to the accuracy and performance needed, a functional and fully calibrated metrology machine holds many settings. These settings are safeguarded in such a way that damage to the machine is prevented by design.

For R&D purposes, both physics- and software engineers would benefit of being able to tests on a machine with settings that are beyond their normal boundaries. These settings are safe from a machine point of view, but should never be open to the customer (because of e.g. risk of performance deterioration). When developing new algorithms, these 'risky' areas are the most interesting ones because they exaggerate possible issues and hence are an ideal vehicle for testing hypotheses and improvements.

Current machine design and operation is such that only with a lot of tweaking, testing beyond the ordinary boundaries is possible. This approach is too cumbersome and costly and hence a solution is needed that easily facilitates this for testing but still will never be exposed to a customer.

The internship will:

• Help us determine which software design-changes are needed to accommodate an 'unrestricted test mode' on the machine.

• Help us determine the optimal mechanism needed to make sure only developers with granted access can use the unrestricted test mode.

• Result in an initial proof of concept on an ASML test-bench. 

• Initial information gathering will provide the intern with a good understanding of the hard- and software interactions in ASML's YieldStar metrology tool.

Your profile

To be a match for this internship, you:

• Are a (HBO) bachelor student in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.

• Have knowledge of C# and object orientation (nice-to-have at beginner level)

• Have experience with Python, JavaScript and/or HTML (nice-to-have, willing to learn)

This is a (HBO) bachelor apprentice or graduation internship for around 6 months, for 4 to 5 days per week (at least 3 days onsite). The start date of this internship is as soon as possible (flexible).

Other requirements you need to meet

• You are enrolled at an educational institute for the entire duration of the internship;

• You are located in the Netherlands to perform your internship. In case you are currently living/studying outside of the Netherlands, your CV/motivation letter includes the willingness to relocate;

• If you are a non-EU citizen, studying in the Netherlands, your university is willing to sign the documents relevant for doing an internship (i.e., Nuffic agreement).