Technical Lead - Software Engineer
Applied Materials2 months ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable, reliable software for semiconductor manufacturing automation.
- Drive architecture and technical direction across services, making pragmatic choices focused on scalability, reliability, simplicity, and maintainability.
- Work across frontend, backend, databases, messaging, infrastructure, Kubernetes configurations, agentic systems, and AI-powered systems.
- Partner with product managers, customers, and domain experts to understand manufacturing workflows and translate operational challenges into software solutions.
- Deliver solutions that improve manufacturing productivity, quality, throughput, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Mentor engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Improve system reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Influence product direction through technical judgment and semiconductor manufacturing domain expertise.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production-grade systems.
- Strong foundations in software design, distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and system architecture.
- Strong experience building backend services with technologies such as Python, TypeScript, NestJS, or similar.
- Experience developing modern web applications with React, Angular, or similar frameworks.
- Experience selecting and working with relational and NoSQL databases based on application needs.
- Experience with data science, machine learning, or reinforcement learning-related projects.
- Experience designing event-driven architectures and message-based systems.
- Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes.
- Experience in manufacturing automation, factory operations, industrial engineering, engineering workflows, or productivity platforms is a plus.
- Exposure to AI, machine learning, agentic systems, analytics, optimization, or simulation-based software is a plus.
- Ability to select appropriate tools, simplify architectures, balance delivery with maintainability, make pragmatic trade-offs, learn unfamiliar domains quickly, and contribute at a system level.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employment.
- Location: Chennai, India.
- Supportive work culture with learning, development, and career-growth opportunities.
- Health and wellbeing programs and support.
- Relocation eligible.
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About Applied Materials
Applied Materials builds semiconductor and display manufacturing equipment and related materials engineering technologies used by chip and flat-panel makers. It sells capital tools, process technology, and lifecycle services and software to support high-volume wafer fabrication and display production worldwide. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker AMAT.