Who is Cymer?
Our mission? Keep Moore’s Law—the prediction that integrated circuits (ICs) would decrease in cost and increase in performance, two-fold, in roughly two-year increments–on track. You won’t see the Cymer logo on your cell phone, tablet, or smartwatch, but chances are the microchips inside those devices were created with a Cymer ultraviolet light source. So even though there won’t be a Cymer commercial during the Super Bowl, we’re proud to deliver the photolithography light sources chipmakers and hardware manufacturers need to produce the next generation of electronics.
TECHNOLOGY
Our products consistently set the pace of innovation, offering a complete range of light source technologies for semiconductor manufacturing applications.
GLOBAL
We’re part of one of the world’s largest semiconductor capital equipment companies thanks to our merger with Netherlands-based ASML in 2013.
COMMUNITY
All together we’ve donated close to $11 million since 2005, and we’re always setting and working towards new goals, pushing ourselves to improve the world for future generations.
Careers & Internships
30 Years of Photolithography Innovation
Cymer is a high-tech company, and the work we do is changing the world around us. When you work here you collaborate with the brightest minds to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the semiconductor lithography industry.
Twice a year the Cymer Talent Acquisition team visits university campuses to attract the best engineering, IT, and business students to our San Diego headquarters. We also have a Summer Internship Program for Undergraduate and Graduate students. Visit our Careers page for details about our fall and spring College Tours.
Our highly-selective Endeavor Program gives university graduates with Masters Degrees an opportunity to join us as full-time employees who interact with, and learn from, senior executives and technical experts within our organization.
ENGINEERING
Mechanical | Electrical | Chemical
OPERATIONS
Logistics | Planning | IT
BUSINESS
Analyst | Accounting | Marketing
University
Students | Graduates
Want to work with us? Check out our current openings.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Bob Akins
Harry Borggreve
Jim Koonmen
Mark Loeffel
LATEST NEWS
Feature Friday | Evans Angaga, Senior IT Business Analyst
Meet Evans Angaga, a Senior Information Technology (IT) Business Analyst here at Cymer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and Design from Kenyatta University in Kenya. “I was contacted by a recruiting agency local to the San Diego area. At the time, I was contemplating leaving SpaceX due to schedules which were getting harder[…]
Now Hiring: Senior Optical Engineer in San Diego CA
Cymer-ASML is looking for a Senior Optical Engineer to join our team in San Diego CA. James Magra graduated from the University of Arizona with Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in optical sciences, and currently works as an optical engineer at our San Diego headquarters. Hear what he has to say about the work[…]
UCLA Engineering & Technical Fair | October 13
Mark your calendars, UCLA Engineering students: on Thursday we’ll be at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science looking for best in class engineering students to join us for our Paid Summer Internship program as well as a variety of entry level engineering positions. Cymer-ASML is a high-tech company, and the work we[…]
Feature Friday | Sylvi Haendel, Senior Systems Engineer
Meet Sylvi Haendel, a Senior Systems Engineer here at Cymer with a PhD in Physics from the University of Durham, UK. “Working in Systems Engineering, I spend most of my time working on projects to improve, develop and advance the current technology of our DUV system. My efforts right now focus on frequency-dependent gain–a phenomena–which affects[…]
Cymer Recruiting Engineers at UCSD, Alma Mater of Company Founders
On Wednesday, October 5, the Cymer-ASML Talent Acquisition team is going back to where it all started: UC San Diego. Back in 1974 Cymer co-founder Rick Sandstrom was the T.A. of the undergraduate physics laboratory class that Bob Akins, the other Cymer co-founder, was taking at UC San Diego. A couple of years later the two were[…]
Get to Know Cymer at University of San Diego Engineering Career Fair
The Cymer University Relations crew will be at the University of San Diego Engineering Career Fair on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. All students currently enrolled in the USD Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering are encouraged to come to Hahn University Center, AB (5998 Alcala Park, San Diego CA 92110) to learn about the paid internship[…]
Calling all Engineering Students | Cymer on Campus
If you’re an engineering student, or on the verge of graduating with a degree in engineering–Controls, Software, Materials, Electrical, Optics, Mechanical, Manufacturing–and think a semiconductor industry career is right for you, our recruiting professionals want to meet you. The Cymer Talent Acquisition Team will at the University of Arizona (10/3-5), the University of San Diego (10/4), and[…]
Neon Reduction Program
A distance of roughly 6,600 miles (10,661 kilometers) separates San Diego and Ukraine. So how, why, did the conflict between Ukraine and Russia lead, at least in part, to the Cymer Neon Reduction Program? The semiconductor industry, and specifically the photolithography process, consumes more than 70 percent of the world’s neon production. In the entire[…]
Bob and Rick and Photolithography Light Sources
Back in the mid-70’s Rick Sandstrom and Bob Akins, both students at The University of California, San Diego, met in a physics laboratory class in which Rick was the teaching assistant. More than 40 years of challenges, technical innovation in the form of photolithography light sources, semiconductor industry business development, failures and successes would follow.[…]
Cymer Summer Internship Program
Benjamin Franklin was a pretty sharp guy. He served as President of Pennsylvania and was the first scientist to state that electric charge can only be collected, not created—aka the Law of Conservation of Electric Charge. He also pointed out that learning happens through involvement, and that is the underlying principle of the Cymer-ASML Paid[…]