Sr. Mgr, Engineering

Requisition ID202020

Date posted
08/10/2026

Work Location Model On-site Flex Work Location Fremont-CAWork Country United States The group you’ll be a part ofIn the Global Products Group, we are dedicated to excellence in the design and engineering of Lam's Platform products.

We drive innovation to ensure our cutting-edge solutions are helping to solve the biggest challenges in the semiconductor industry.

The impact you’ll makeA Senior Manager in Engineering Operations strengthens GPE operational excellence by improving engineering processes, driving standards, enabling tool and system efficiency. In this role, you’ll utilize an internal customer perspective to coordinate cross-functional teams of impacted stakeholders and manage projects to completion, both on time and within budget. You’ll champion the adoption of modern engineering methods aligned with Lam’s digital transformation strategy.

You’ll provide oversight to our India team, setting direction through roadmaps and annual goals and objectives, developing their capabilities, and ensuring the performance of the team.

Your role directly impacts the productivity, efficiency and quality of the design engineering team. If you have a passion for standards, details and consistent design and documentation methods, we’d love to meet you.

Candidate should be a result-driven, self-starter possessing strong interpersonal skills with a strong focus on supporting internal customers. This individual should also possess the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, to adapt to changing priorities and to work independently in a close-knit team setting.

What you’ll do Provide direction to the global team and assist in the development of skills, capabilities, domain knowledge, technical ownership, and hiring required to meet objectives

Continuous improvement. This includes all elements of the engineering development and release process from the tools used to communicate, to the engineering practices themselves

Develop evaluation methods to assess process strengths and identify areas for improvement

Work cross functionally to develop problem statements and align requirements and functionality with stakeholders to drive solutions

Create, maintain, and develop comprehensive process documentation and drive adoption

Create, present and maintain effective training

Present project plans to senior management, gain buy in, and deliver results

Manage CFTs with a diverse array of talents and responsibilities in both the US and India Resolve escalations

Prioritization and coordination of engineering operations work with a global workforce

Represent GPE operational interests in corporate CFTsCreate, revise, review, release, and communicate engineering standards and best‑known methods

Capture and publish tribal knowledge, working across engineering communities to improve consistency

Organize engineering information for fast discovery using SharePoint, Teams, or other corporate tools

Develop, evaluate and champion tools to improve the quality and efficiency of engineering work

Who we’re looking for Expected minimum of 12 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a master’s degree; or equivalent experience

Experience with engineering product development processes/best practices

Management experience

Design engineering experience, preferably in semiconductor equipment

Related experience with MCAD, preferably Siemens NX or PTC Creo, from part and assembly modeling to on-model annotations and (TDP) Technical Data Packages, to part fabrication and inspection or ECAD, preferably Zuken E3

Experience in analyzing data to draw relevant business conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools

Skills in Excel are a must but demonstrable capability with Quick Base, SharePoint, Power BI, iPLM, TCPLM, SAP, Matlab, or other programming languages is a plus Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills

Strong leadership skills with applicable experience

Strong Influencing, negotiating and conflict resolution skills

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