Software Engineer
Applied Materials1 day ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$152k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, develop, and debug software solutions for semiconductor equipment components and devices.
- Build maintainable, tested software components with clear APIs, interfaces, and separation of concerns.
- Work across data ingestion, computation, APIs, and user-facing functionality, including numerical, time-series, and sensor data.
- Investigate performance bottlenecks, resource utilization, software problems, and root causes using data and profiling.
- Develop software documentation, test procedures, design records, experiments, and implementation decisions.
- Translate research papers, technical specifications, and ambiguous problem statements into working software.
- Collaborate with engineers, researchers, domain experts, and internal customers to understand requirements and communicate technical tradeoffs.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python beyond prototype scripting.
- Experience writing maintainable, tested code with clear APIs and sound engineering practices.
- Familiarity with NumPy, Pandas, Polars, SciPy, numerical data, time-series data, statistics, and signal-processing concepts.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, computational thinking, debugging, operating systems, memory, concurrency, data layout, I/O, networking, performance, and scalability.
- Ability to contribute to production codebases, services, or tooling and work effectively in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Familiarity with testing, version control, code reviews, and collaborative software development.
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field is a strong plus.
- Preferred experience includes research implementation, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, service-oriented architectures, distributed systems, Rust, C++, C, high-performance computing, profiling, optimization, or low-level debugging.
- Preferred domain experience includes semiconductor manufacturing, plasma processing, spectroscopy, fault detection, endpoint detection, or noisy real-world sensor and instrument data.
- Preferred data experience includes SQL, Arrow, Parquet, dataframe-based pipelines, large-scale data processing, TypeScript, React, Tauri, or Electron.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package and programs supporting employee health, wellbeing, and professional development.
- Supportive work culture with opportunities to learn, develop, and grow.
- Full-time regular employment in Santa Clara, California.
- Approximately 10% travel required.
- Relocation eligible.
- Candidates may also be eligible for bonus and stock award programs, as applicable.
About Applied Materials
Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor and advanced display in the world. The technology we create is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation chips. At Applied, we push the boundaries of science and engineering to deliver material innovation that changes the world. We look forward to engaging with you on compelling topics about the semiconductor industry. We want to hear from you, but offensive comments that create an unpleasant environment for our community will be removed. Thanks for your understanding.