Senior Technical Project Manager R&D
As Senior Project Manager R&D, you will lead the execution of innovative, challenging R&D projects that bring our next-generation metrology solutions to market. Working closely with our R&D team, you enable a multi-disciplinary group spanning hardware, software, and algorithm development to deliver against an ambitious roadmap. Your role is pivotal in ensuring our technology meets customer performance requirements and delivery timelines — and you do this through structure, clear planning, and strong cross-functional leadership rather than deep domain expertise. You'll support the R&D Manager, who drives the overall technology roadmap.
What you're going to do
You will lead end-to-end R&D projects from concept through prototype and validation, all the way to productization readiness. You build and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, resource allocation, deliverables, risk; and you keep a complex, cross-functional team moving even when the path isn't fully defined yet.
Your main responsibilities include:
Leading end-to-end R&D projects, from concept through prototype and validation to productization.
Developing and maintaining detailed project plans, including timelines, resource allocation, deliverables, and risk management.
Coordinating cross-functional project teams spanning multiple engineering disciplines.
Driving alignment between technical development and customer or market requirements, in collaboration with product marketing.
Working with product development programs, design & engineering, and systems engineering to deliver what's needed for productization.
Monitoring progress against milestones and budget, escalating issues early and driving them to resolution.
Ensuring projects comply with relevant quality and regulatory standards.
Acting as a key liaison between R&D, Product Marketing, Systems Engineering, and Design & Engineering.
Continuously improving how we plan and run projects, in a fast-moving, precision-focused environment.
Who you'll be working with
You will work closely with the R&D Manager and a multi-disciplinary engineering team, alongside Product Marketing, Systems Engineering, and Design & Engineering. You'll be the connective tissue between technical development and the customer and business requirements it needs to serve, building trust and alignment across teams, often without a formal reporting line to draw on.
Who you are
You are an experienced project manager who brings structure to ambiguity. You're equally comfortable building a detailed plan and adjusting it on the fly, and you know how to keep a multi-disciplinary team aligned and moving, even under pressure.
You have:
Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional projects in a high-tech, engineering, or R&D environment, ideally using structured methodologies such as Agile or Stage-Gate.
Strong planning and organizational skills, with the ability to manage scope, timelines, budget, and resources across a multi-disciplinary project.
Solid risk and issue management skills — you spot problems early and drive them to resolution.
Excellent stakeholder management, communicating effectively with technical teams, senior leadership, suppliers, and customers.
A structured, data-driven approach to tracking progress and supporting decision-making.
The ability to translate business goals and customer needs into clear, actionable project plans.
Strong communication skills and the presence to build trust and motivate teams, including where no direct reporting line exists.
Comfort working in a fast-paced, technical environment, even without deep prior knowledge of metrology or AFM technology — a technical affinity and the willingness to learn fast are what matter most.