Software Engineer
Applied Materials24 hours 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.
- Write maintainable, tested production code with clear APIs and separated responsibilities.
- Process numerical, time-series, statistical, signal, and scientific data.
- Investigate performance bottlenecks and resource utilization using data and profiling.
- Work across data ingestion, computation, services, APIs, and user-facing functionality.
- Develop software documentation, test procedures, designs, experiments, and implementation decisions.
- Troubleshoot software problems and communicate project requirements and technical tradeoffs to internal customers and domain experts.
- Participate in testing, version control, code reviews, and collaborative software development.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python beyond prototype scripting.
- Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, computational thinking, operating systems, memory, concurrency, data layout, I/O, networking, and performance.
- Experience writing maintainable, tested code and contributing to production codebases, services, or tooling.
- Ability to translate research papers, technical specifications, and ambiguous problems into working software.
- Strong analytical thinking, debugging skills, technical communication, documentation, ownership, and learning agility.
- Preferred: a master's or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
- Preferred: research experience turning ideas into practical implementations.
- Preferred: familiarity with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, service-oriented architectures, communication protocols, message queues, or distributed systems.
- Preferred: experience with Rust, C++, or C and interest in systems programming, high-performance computing, profiling, optimization, or low-level debugging.
- Preferred: experience with semiconductor manufacturing, plasma processing, spectroscopy, fault detection, endpoint detection, or noisy sensor and instrument data.
- Preferred: experience with SQL, Arrow, Parquet, dataframe-based data pipelines, and large-scale data processing.
- Preferred: willingness to contribute to front-end or visualization layers using TypeScript, React, Tauri, or Electron.
Benefits
- Supportive culture focused on learning, development, and career growth.
- Health and wellbeing programs and comprehensive employee benefits.
- Full-time regular employment.
- Santa Clara, California location.
- Approximately 10% travel required.
- Relocation eligible.
- Potential eligibility for bonus and stock award programs, separate from base salary.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.