Customer Technology Manager

In your career, let’s prove what’s possible.

At Lam Research, we create equipment that drives technological advancements in the semiconductor industry. Our innovative solutions enable chipmakers to power progress in nearly all aspects of modern life, and it takes each member of our team to make it possible. Across our organization, our employees come to work and change the world. We take on the toughest challenges with precision and accuracy.

We push for the next big semiconductor breakthrough. We lead the way in one of the most critical and fast-moving industries on the planet. And we do it together, with deep connections and limitless collaboration. The impact we have on the world is made possible by focusing on our people. So we recognize and celebrate our teams’ achievements. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone’s contribution and voice has value.

We evaluate and evolve our offerings, so our people receive the support and empowerment to do meaningful things for their lives, careers, and communities. Because at Lam, we believe that when people are the priority and they’re inspired to unleash the power of innovation for a better world together, anything is possible.

Date:
Sep 5, 2026

Location:

Fremont, CA, US, 94538

Worker Category:
On-site Flex

The Office of the CTO is where innovation takes center stage. We inspire our global technical community to take on grand challenges, understand emerging trends, identify the critical inflections, and drive our sustainability, Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices that will define the next generation of semiconductors and continued impact.

As a Customer Technology Manager, you will contribute to the growth of the Aether Engineering team.

Technical

• Responsible for performing professional process engineering research, development, and evaluation in support of the company’s complex semiconductor capital equipment and systems.
• Reviews processing techniques and methods applied in the manufacture, fabrication and evaluation of products. Involvement may begin at any step from pilot plant to full-scale manufacturing.
• Conceives and plans projects involving definition and selection of new concepts and approaches in the processing or development of new processes.
• Compiles and evaluates test data to determine appropriate limits and variables for process specifications.
• Supports customer technology managers in the planning, data collection, analysis, and reporting of customer demos to defend existing process applications.
• Drives the adoption of new technology at the customer site. Works closely with customer to demonstrate and introduce new technologies at customer sites through demos, on site evaluations, and new tool qualifications.
• Works with customer and senior engineers cross functionally to understand roadmaps, process flow, inflection points, requirements and business issues/ challenges.
• Works with suppliers to make sure required parts and supplies are available
• Contributes to product development and release activities.
• May act as CTM-single point of contact accountable for process related requests.

Leadership

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.
• Works with cross-functional teams to get information and results needed.

Customer Relations

• Professionally represents the company to the customer. Utilize knowledge of company’s product lines and services to keep existing/ potential customers informed when new/ additional needs are identified.
• Actively addresses any potential issues at the customer site and provide alternative solutions. Drive implementation of new solutions for the customer.

• Ph.D. in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or Physics with 5 years of relevant work; or
• M.S. with 8+ years of relevant work experience; or
• B.S. with 12+ years of work experience.

• Familiarity with working in a chemical laboratory.
• Experience in surface preparation and analytical techniques.
• In-de…