Junior Product Manager - Product Development

Silex Microsystems is the world’s leading pure-play MEMS foundry, partnering with global clients to develop some of the most advanced MEMS products in the world.

As a Junior Product Manager in our Product Development team, you will develop your expertise in MEMS product development — working hands-on with cutting-edge processes while learning to drive technical projects alongside experienced colleagues. This is a highly technical, project-driven role where you build on your microfabrication knowledge and develop your project management skills to help take products from concept to market.

Read more about Silex here.

The Team

You will join our Product Development team of around 40 colleagues, including Product Managers, Process Design Engineers and CAD Engineers, and you’ll be reporting to a Group Manager.

The team works at the core of Silex’s offering — translating customer designs into manufacturable MEMS products. Collaboration is key, and you will work closely with both internal experts and international customers in a highly knowledge-driven environment.

The role

In this role, you will contribute to the development of MEMS products from early concept through prototype, gradually taking on greater responsibility as you build your technical expertise and project management skills.

Customers typically come to Silex with a design concept, and together with our CAD Engineers and technical experts, you will help evaluate and shape that design to ensure it is manufacturable. Early in the process, you will work alongside experienced colleagues and specialists from different process areas to define a robust concept and create a scalable process flow, and a recipe for the new product. In this concept phase, you will help ensure that all critical aspects are considered before the customer approves the concept, and the project moves into prototyping.

As the project progresses into the prototype phase, you will support project execution — helping to track timelines, identify risks, and solve technical challenges with guidance from experienced colleagues.

A part of the role is hands-on work in the cleanroom. After each process step, you will evaluate the outcome using tools such as SEM analysis to determine whether the desired result has been achieved. Based on your findings, you will work closely with Process Engineers to tweak parameters in processes to achieve the desired result. Finally, you will contribute to the delivery of the final prototype to the client, with increasing ownership as you gain experience.

To ensure a strong start, you’ll receive hands-on training from an experienced colleague to familiarize you with our development process and tools before taking part in client discussions. You will initially join customer meetings alongside experienced colleagues and gradually take a more active role in discussing progress, challenges, and next steps.

In this role, you will

• Contribute to MEMS development projects from concept to the delivery of a final prototype.

• Evaluate customer designs and ensure manufacturability together with CAD and process experts.

• Help define process flows and build fabrication recipes for new products with support from experienced colleagues.

• Collaborate with cross-functional experts early in the project to ensure a robust concept.

• Analyze process results using SEM and other characterization methods.

• Collaborate with Process Engineers to achieve desired results after each fabrication step.

• Support the planning and follow-up of project timelines, order portfolios, progress, and delivery.

• Help identify risks, troubleshoot issues, and ensure forward momentum together with the team.

• Develop into a technical point of contact for customers.

• Participate in technical discussions, reporting, and planning.

What We’re Looking For

• A recently completed PhD, or a Master’s degree combined with few years of relevant professional experience, with coursework in microfabrication/nanotechnology.

• Experience with microfabrication through work or academic research, ideally using processes like lithography, plasma deposition and plasma etching.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to discuss technical topics in English. Swedish is considered highly beneficial as a lot of internal documentation is written in Swedish.

• An interest in customer collaboration; previous experience with customer interaction is beneficial but not required.

• Experience planning and carrying out technical work through research or industry, and a motivation to develop your project management skills.

To succeed in the role, we also think that you are

• A clear and adaptable communicator, able to engage both colleagues and customers.

• Organized and methodical in how you approach your work and contribute to project progress.

• Curious and eager to deepen your expertise in MEMS.

• Business-minded and focused on delivering value to customers.

About the recruitment process

We review applications on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. To apply, please attach your CV, and answer a few questions.

If you progress through the full process, you will start with a digital interview with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners, followed by a personality and logical ability test. Next, you will meet with one of our Group Managers together with a Talent Acquisition Partner for an in-person interview, and finally with our VP of Product Development for a concluding interview. Before an offer, we also conduct reference checks, a background check, and a drug test. Randomized alcohol- and drug testing is conducted for all of our employees during the employment.