Engineering Capabilities Development

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting‑edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT.

If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

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Location: Santa Clara, CA

You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees.

We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go.

• Independently develops and implements concepts for a range of significantly complex product issues and engineering solutions.
• Technically leads and/or executes engineering projects and spearheads research and development of new technologies, as appropriate.
• Identifies problems and troubleshoots a wide range of significantly complex engineering problems.
• Specifies or performs significantly complex engineering analysis.
• Interfaces with internal and external customers regarding significantly complex engineering issues to address customers High Value Problems (HVP) for a range of products.
• Generates product specifications, defines, coordinates, performs, and documents engineering tests.
• Specifies the development, design, or modifies engineering layouts/schematics and/or detailed drawings/specifications of significantly complex scope.
• Specifies and reviews engineering documentation and engineering processes.
• Leads and/or develops and executes exceptionally complex technology and engineering projects and leads research and development of new technologies as appropriate. Works on critical complex issues that impact longer‑term product development and business success measured by incremental revenue growth, market share increases, key customer penetrations, time to market improvement, and commercial value of the work.
• Designs, performs, collects data, analyzes, and compiles reports on unusually complex engineering experiments within safety guidelines and provides highly innovative and ingenious solutions.
• Develops innovative solutions as part of a proven track record of significant technology contributions, recognized internally as one of the limited number of technical experts in their field.
• Conceives and implements new technology, normally named as the primary inventor on numerous critical patents and recognized through awards and/or published papers within the last five years.
• Leads and collaborates to contribute to the development of new principles and concepts, guiding less experienced engineers in utilizing techniques to define methods and new technologies and apply them on unusually complex systems, and judging the approach and verifying the validity of technical strategies.

• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field.
• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function.

• Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements.

• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.

• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines.

• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections…