Software Engineer 3

Lam Research

1h • Hybrid

About The Position

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 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. 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. Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees. Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.

Requirements

• Eligibility Criteria: Years of Experience: 6-9 Years
• Educational qualification: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering
• 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.
• Exposure and experience with serial, MODBUS and EtherCat protocol implementation between Software and Hardware controller communication.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in working on embedded systems.
• Experience in programming in C/C++/Python.
• Knowledge on EtherCat based device communications.
• 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 ControlWORKS.

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.

What This Job Offers

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