Automation Engineer

Canatu (CANATU, Nasdaq First North, Finland) is a fast-growing deep technology company creating advanced carbon nanotubes (Canatu CNTs), related products, and manufacturing equipment for the semiconductor, automotive, and medical diagnostics industries. Together with pioneering companies, Canatu transforms products with nano carbon for a better tomorrow.

Canatu's versatile platform technology has broad potential applications. Its current core includes CNT membranes for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) processes in the semiconductor industry, enabling the manufacturing of the most advanced chips, as well as film heaters for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) in the automotive industry. Additionally, electrochemical sensors for medical diagnostics are in the development phase. Canatu’s patented CNT reactors and Dry Deposition^TM method yield clean and pristine CNTs. The company operates through two business models: selling CNT products directly, as well as selling CNT reactors and licensing the related technology so that customers can produce CNT products under a limited license.

Headquartered in Finland, Canatu also operates in the US, Japan, and Taiwan. Founded in 2004 as a spin-off from Aalto University’s Nanomaterials Group, Canatu currently has around 140 employees representing over 35 nationalities, with 20 per cent holding or pursuing doctorates. Discover more at www.canatu.com
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We are looking for an Automation Engineer to strengthen our Systems Engineering team.

In your work you will be working with both Siemens and Beckhoff automation systems. You will be part of a larger team providing insight from automation and software point of view in creation, development and improvement of our equipment and products. You will be planning, developing and testing features according to set requirements. Support for production will be required to sort out bugs and issues arising at short notice. Work also entails infrequent travel to customer sites for automation support up to 60 days per year.

To succeed in this role we require qualifications and experience in;

• BSc or MSc in automation engineering


• PLC programming


• HMI development


• Hands-on experience in troubleshooting automation systems


• Fluent in English, Finnish language is seen as an advantage

In addition to requirements, we will value you having:

• Experience in the semiconductor industry automation and working in cleanrooms


• Experience with Siemens TIA portal and Beckhoff TwinCAT


• Familiarity with SEMI standards


• Experience in working in the customer interface.

ABOUT CANATU

As an entrepreneurial company, you will be a part of a dynamic and forward-looking scale-up with great team spirit and peer support. At Canatu, the following core values define who we are and who we want to be, guiding us in our day-to-day work:

• Curiosity to discover provides us with the spark that takes us out into the world to observe and find.


• Commitment to achieve is how we take those discoveries from ideas to something concrete.


• Collaboration for impact is required to develop what we create into impactful and meaningful products.


• Passion for progress keeps us working for new ways to do things for better tomorrows.

Does this resonate? It’s what defines us. Join us to do work with an impact.

For more information on this position, please contact Salla Oksala at [email protected]. Pls apply latest by 23rd of May, 2025.