Software Technical Lead Engineer

The group you'll be a part of

In the Global Products Group, we are dedicated to excellence in the design and engineering of Lam's etch and deposition products. We drive innovation to ensure our cutting‑edge solutions are helping to solve the biggest challenges in the semiconductor industry.

As a Software Engineer at Lam, you will be at the forefront of innovation by designing, developing, and troubleshooting, and debugging software programs. Your role is pivotal in developing software tools that support design, infrastructure, and technology platforms. Your expertise will determine hardware compatibility and influence design, ensuring seamless integration between software and hardware.

In this role, you'll make an impact across Lam's entire product portfolio of equipment working within our centralized software engineering team, collaborating with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

• Job Summary
  • Responsible for development and maintenance of control systems software for semiconductor wafer fab equipment's manufactured by Lam.
  • Independently owns and drives complex projects involving HW device interfacing in all phases of software development.
  • Responsible for leading, mentoring and driving projects involving multiple developers from within and other departments by taking complete ownership of component or product software.
  • Interacts with cross functional teams across global regions to participate and contributes to technical discussions.
  • Provides quick response in handling critical issues reported by customers and product groups.
• Primary Responsibilities
  • Software requirement gathering, design, development, testing of projects for a chamber in wafer fabrication equipment involving multiple device interactions.
  • Responsible for defect fixing and maintenance of software install base by analysing, debugging, and fixing customer issues.
  • Analysis and troubleshooting of software and hardware communication issues, command/response implementation on serial, Ethernet, Ether CAT connectivity.
  • Actively contributes to technical reviews, guide junior engineers in design and implementation phases of product software.
  • Plans, co-ordinates, technical reviews multiple SW development activities (multi-tasking) in parallel to SW project development.
  • Applies past learnings and experiences to demonstrates abilities in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions based on customer and product groups business requirements.

Years of

Experience:

5-7 Years

Mandatory Skills

• Exposure and experience in CFT to understand hardware specification, schematics and convert into Software requirements, design, and implementation.
• Hands on experience of design and developing equipment/machine control software using object-oriented program.
• Interested in semiconductor domain and keen to work in wafer-fabrication equipment software using Smalltalk programming language.
• Strong understanding and experience in OOPS concepts
• Strong analytical, logical, problem solving, trouble shooting skills.
• Hands on experience in complete project development life cycle like waterfall, Agile, Kanban models etc.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in working on embedded systems.
• Experience in programming in C/C++/C#/Python.
• Hands on experience in software source control and bug tracking tools.
• Hands on experience in RTOS.
• Experience in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry.
• Understanding of distributed systems.
• Knowledge of equipment control framework like Control
  
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• Hands on experience in programming using Visual Studio
• Hands on experience in semiconductor Factory Automation
• Exposure and experience with serial, MODBUS and Ether Cat protocol implementation between Software and Hardware controller communication.

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

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