Introduction of the job
As the System Electrical Domain Architect in San Jose, you define and steer system-level, domain-specific architectural direction and act as the decisive authority when domain performance, risk, and interface conflicts arise between sub-systems. You lead system-level domain architecture topics (e.g., dedicated architecture sessions) and apply deep, up-to-date expertise in your domain while maintaining a system-wide overview across functions and modules. You translate abstract requirements into executable architecture that balances business context, domain considerations, and system requirements, ensuring a multi-domain balanced solution across relevant business drivers. In doing so, you lead technical teams, align and convince diverse stakeholders, and clearly communicate complex technical topics within ASML processes and domain-specific ways of working (WoW).
You define the scope and work breakdown for the domain architecture of a single product or multiple products within a small set of MDUs (<10) or a small NPI (typically <100 FTE) and drive the domain vision for the product(s) you own. You align across Foundation Heads of Domain, System Engineering, and the MDUs in scope, balancing domain aspects across all relevant modules to ensure overall product performance. You take an initiating role in innovations within your domain and translate customer questions related to your domain into clear, actionable architectural direction within the product.
Responsibilities
In this role, you are responsible for end-to-end system domain architectural accountability by ensuring full lifecycle compliance to domain requirements and standards, delivering an optimized and balanced multi-domain architecture decomposed into sub-systems, and safeguarding architectural coherence, robust boundary conditions, domain performance, and domain interfaces across sub-systems within the product(s).
Deliver system level domain specific SEG documents and provide input for design rules.
Create domain specific PBS items, and work with SE and D&I teams to optimize work breakdown.
Coach technical team on architectural skills.
Deliver system level domain specific SEG documents.
Align architectural requirements with MDU (domain) architects/technical lead.
Review architectural work for the relevant sub-systems.
Include in architecture setup roadmaps and business needs, in alignment with overarching product, sectors and foundation guidelines.
Identify required studies in the domain.
Identify and mitigate domain risks.
Giving direction on domain roadmaps and their connection to SE roadmap.
Escalate architectural risks, conflicts or scope decisions to the Head of Domain Architecture.
Contributes to Architect Development Programs and Architect Community to develop talent.
Education & experience
BS in engineering or in relevant technical field.
MSc or PhD preferred in relevant technical field.
Extensive experience (typically 10+ years) in defining and realizing an architecture within the relevant Domain.
Experience in different sub-systems or different business lines, as Domain Architect responsible for a function.
Proven ability to make sound decisions in ambiguous situations where scale and scope are not fully defined.
Naturally associated with the domain within a product. Widely recognized by others to get technical direction within the product.
Technical leader with seniority within the domain and high impact on technical domain decision within the product.
Skills
Technical & functional skills
System-Level Domain Architecture Governance: Defines and steers system-level domain architecture topics and acts as the decisive authority to resolve domain performance, risk, and interface conflicts between sub-systems.
End-to-End Domain Requirements & Architecture Delivery: Translates abstract requirements into executable system domain architecture, delivering system-level domain SEG documentation and ensuring full lifecycle compliance to internal/external standards across the product(s).
Multi-Domain Sub-System Integration, Roadmaps & Risk Control: Drives an optimized, balanced multi-domain architecture decomposed into sub-systems by aligning roadmaps and business needs with SE/foundation guidelines, reviewing sub-system architecture, identifying required studies, and proactively managing/escalating domain risks, conflicts, and scope decisions.
Proven capability to define the end‑to‑end electrical system architecture across subsystems (power, SEM e-beam control, signal, safety, EMC), translating system requirements into robust electrical concepts, design principles and interfaces while ensuring system performance, reliability, safety, compliance, cost target across all subsystems.
Strong capability to perform electrical trade‑offs, steer design decisions across modules and functions, and identify and mitigate technical and architectural risks early in the development cycle while being able to balance short-term project needs with long-term roadmap considerations. Act as a quality gatekeeper ensuring robust, cost‑effective, and serviceable system solutions and qualification strategies.
Strong knowledge and proven expertise of grounding, shielding, signal and power integrity, and EMI mitigation techniques to ensure compliance with regulatory and ASML internal standards (e.g., NFPA, IEC, SEMI, and CE) and specific customer requirements, including SEC common specifications and customer p-spec compliance. Ability to lead EMC‑aware system design with root‑cause analysis for complex electrical issues across development, industrialization, and field phases.
Behavioral & leadership skills
Drives Results: The ability to translate strategic and technical goals into clear priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes, delivering committed results on time and with the right quality by taking ownership, managing trade-offs, removing obstacles, and sustaining momentum across stakeholders and dependencies.
Demonstrates Self-awareness: The ability to understand and manage one’s own strengths, limitations, emotions, and impact on others; to actively seek and use feedback; and to adapt behaviors and decisions to improve collaboration, leadership effectiveness, and results, especially in high-pressure, ambiguous, or complex environments.
Values Differences: The ability to intentionally seek, respect, and integrate diverse perspectives and working styles to strengthen collaboration and decision quality, ensuring all voices are heard and treated equitably, and enabling inclusive execution across cross-functional and multicultural stakeholders.
Builds Effective Teams: The ability to form, align, and develop teams that consistently deliver results by establishing clear goals, roles, and ways of working; fostering trust and inclusion; enabling healthy conflict and accountability; and coaching individuals to grow performance and capability over time.
Drives Vision and Purpose: The ability to define and communicate a clear, compelling direction that connects strategy to execution, aligns people on priorities and trade-offs, and sustains motivation and focus, especially through ambiguity, change, and competing demands.
Other
This position is located on-site. It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation. A flexible workplace arrangement is available for remote work up to two days a week.
Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.
Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
May require travel (specify domestic and/or international) dependent on business needs.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
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The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:
$177,000-265,500Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.
The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US.
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