Industrial Engineering Internship: AI Usage for Bucketing

Introduction

ASML, the largest supplier for photolithography systems in the semiconductor industry, provides machines to chipmakers to enable mass production of chips on silicon wafers. ASML’s core strength is the lithography technology itself, while the building of the chipmakers is merely an assembly of parts provided by suppliers.

The Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) is responsible for introducing new parts into the supplier base for ASML lithography systems. A key role of our department’s is ensuring that these parts are delivered with the requisite quality standards.

Your assignment

ASML makes designs for parts of our machine that are externally manufactured by our suppliers. These suppliers review our designs and give feedback on various aspects (correctness, manufacturability, testability, etc.).  Beside of correcting the design, this feedback is also used for the feedback-loop to our design community, for improving design quality. In order to do this effectively this feedback is categorized. 
This categorization (or bucketing) is initially done by our suppliers, and later on corrected by the SQE, which takes a lot of effort. In order to reduce this effort, we want to investigate if this can be done or supported by AI.

Your assignment will focus on:

• Applying Artificial Intelligence to categorize (bucket) the feedback raised by the supplier according to the fixed bucketing scheme as used in the review tool;

• Applying AI to categorize the feedback inside each bucket, to indicate the common mistakes made;

• Implementation will be done based on datasets in excel;

• Reporting to show outcome;

This is an apprentice internship (to gain work experience) for minimum 6 months for 5 days per week. The start date is flexible (latest starting date Sept '25).

Your profile

To be a perfect match with this internship, you:

• Are a Bachelor or Master student in the direction Business Administration, Industrial Engineering and Management, Data analytics or AI;

• Have knowledge about artificial intelligence engines;

• Have knowledge of applications and the ability to apply on large data sets;

• Are a proactive person with a can-do mindset;

• Have strong stakeholder management skills;

Other requirements you need to meet

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

• You need to be located in the Netherlands to be perform your internship. In case you ‘re 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).

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

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