Application Engineer V

Applied Materials•Santa Clara, CA
•$163,000 - $224,000

About The Position

Applied Materials is hiring an Application Engineer V to lead complex customer application activities and shape product application roadmaps. The role requires deep understanding of customer technologies, critical gaps, technical requirements, and product roadmaps. It leads customer-site evaluations and demonstrations, field execution teams, and the development and transfer of new application capabilities from product divisions to customer application support teams. The engineer defines methodologies to optimize system performance for specific applications and leads customer technical review meetings. The role is regarded as a technical expert in its field, with broad knowledge across related disciplines. It leads projects with notable risk and complexity, solves unique problems with broad business impact, and influences program, project, or service direction and resource allocation. It also requires communicating complex ideas and persuading stakeholders, including senior-level audiences, to adopt different viewpoints. The position is based in Santa Clara, California, is full-time and regular, and requires travel 10% of the time. Relocation is eligible. The posted salary range is $163,000–$224,000. The company also notes that selected candidates may be eligible for bonus and stock awards, as applicable.

Responsibilities

  • Lead product application roadmaps for future solutions based on customer technologies and critical gaps.
  • Technically lead difficult and complex application activities and teams.
  • Create and lead execution teams for customer-site beta sites, evaluations, and demonstrations, with substantial involvement in statements of work and commitment schedules.
  • Define customer technical requirements through analysis and understanding of the product roadmap.
  • Lead complex field execution teams from planning through implementation.
  • Define methodologies to optimize system performance for specific applications.
  • Identify needs, analyze, develop, and transfer new application capabilities within the system envelope from product divisions to customer application support teams.
  • Lead customer technical review meetings.
  • Anticipate business and regulatory issues and recommend product, process, or service improvements.
  • Develop execution strategies for projects with notable risk and complexity.
  • Solve unique and complex problems with broad business impact through conceptual and innovative thinking.
  • Influence direction and resource allocation for programs, projects, or services.
  • Communicate complex ideas, anticipate objections, and persuade others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Potential eligibility for bonus and stock award programs, as applicable
  • Programs and support for employee health and wellbeing and personal and professional growth
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