Software Architect
Applied Materials1 day ago
Base Salary
$132k - $182k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end software architecture for assigned products, platforms, and major subsystems.
- Translate product and functional requirements into technical solution concepts and architectural designs.
- Lead architecture and design reviews, approve technical solutions, and establish design standards and best practices.
- Identify technical debt, refactoring needs, infrastructure limitations, and scalability risks.
- Guide technology selection, system integration, API strategy, modularity, performance optimization, and modernization.
- Provide hands-on guidance through design reviews, code reviews, proof-of-concepts, and resolution of technical blockers.
- Collaborate with product, systems, algorithms, hardware, DevOps, quality, and field teams.
- Mentor technical leads and engineers and promote architectural thinking and knowledge sharing.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and ensure software quality, reliability, security, debuggability, maintainability, and performance.
- Influence product and technology roadmaps while developing technical talent and engineering excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant responsibility for architecture and system design.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture patterns, object-oriented design, distributed systems, APIs, and modular application design.
- Proficiency in one or more of C++, C#, Java, or Python.
- Experience with software development lifecycle practices, Agile delivery, CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, and code-quality tools.
- Ability to analyze complex requirements, make technical decisions, and communicate trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with large-scale high-reliability, customer-facing, industrial, or hardware-coupled software systems.
- Preferred qualifications include knowledge of cloud-native technologies, containers, microservices, high-performance computing, AI/ML, or data-intensive architectures.
- Preferred qualifications include experience in semiconductor equipment, inspection, metrology, imaging, automation, or other complex engineering domains.
- Preferred qualifications include leading technical transformation, reducing technical debt, improving engineering productivity and product quality, and working with globally distributed teams.
Benefits
- Supportive work culture with opportunities for learning, development, and career growth.
- Comprehensive benefits package and programs supporting employee health and wellbeing.
- Full-time regular employment; travel is required approximately 10% of the time.
- Relocation eligible.
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.