Application Engineer IV

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Salary: $147,000.00 - $202,500.00
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. Visit our Careers website to learn more.

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. Learn more about our benefits.

Requirements

• MS equivalent or higher in engineering or science with at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Optical thin film metrology including scatterometry, UV-visible and IR techniques
• X-ray based metrology including XRF, XPS, HR-XRD
• Elemental analysis using SIMS
• Electrical film metrology including both contact and non-contact techniques
• Optical defect inspection including unpatterned wafer inspection and edge inspection
• Contamination analysis using TXRF-VPD and VPD-ICPMS
• Nanomechanical techniques using nano-indentation and profilometry using AFM
• Photoacoustic techniques
• Several years of work experience on metrology applications with multiple techniques.
• Work primarily with process teams across Applied and develop metrology applications to support product and process development.
• Implement metrology best practices and provide data analysis for projects.
• Willing to learn application of new metrology techniques.
• Functional Knowledge: 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
• Business Expertise: Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements
• Leadership: Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution
• Problem Solving: Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions
• Impact: Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines
• Interpersonal Skills: Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated expertise, preferably in two or more of the following areas: Optical thin film metrology including scatterometry, UV-visible and IR techniques X-ray based metrology including XRF, XPS, HR-XRD Elemental analysis using SIMS Electrical film metrology including both contact and non-contact techniques Optical defect inspection including unpatterned wafer inspection and edge inspection Contamination analysis using TXRF-VPD and VPD-ICPMS Nanomechanical techniques using nano-indentation and profilometry using AFM Photoacoustic techniques

Responsibilities

• Develop applications based on Optical film metrology techniques to qualify semiconductor process tools
• Actively engage with key vendors to understand the latest metrology techniques and influence roadmap for future solutions
• Technically leads difficult and complex metrology application activities.
• Lead internal and customer technical review meetings to address metrology solutions
• Defines customer technical requirements, through deep analysis and clear understanding of the product roadmap
• Define new methodologies to optimized system performance for specific application
• This technical staff position 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 one or more of the following: incremental revenue growth, market share increases, key customer penetrations, time to market improvement and commercial value of the work.
• Within safety guidelines design, perform, collect data, analyze and compile reports on unusually complex engineering experiments and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
• Develop innovative solutions as part of proven track record of significant technology contributions.
• Recognized internally (across Business Units) as one of the limited number of technical experts in their field of expertise
• Conceive and implement new technology, normally named as 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.
• Guides less experienced engineers in utilizing metrology techniques to define methods and new technologies and apply them on unusually complex systems.
• Leads and collaborates to contribute to the development of new principles and concepts.

Benefits

• Supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Eligibility for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees