Forward Deployed Engineer
Applied Materials1 day ago
Base Salary
$124k - $171k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with scheduling, manufacturing, factory operations, and business stakeholders to translate planning challenges into scalable scheduling solutions.
- Serve as the technical liaison between scheduling teams and engineering organizations while identifying opportunities to improve cycle time, tool utilization, throughput, delivery performance, and operational efficiency.
- Develop, prototype, deploy, and continuously improve analytical models, automation frameworks, decision-support tools, workflows, dashboards, and AI-enabled scheduling solutions.
- Work with scheduling data, optimization engines, simulation environments, APIs, and business systems to address planning and execution challenges.
- Analyze manufacturing, supply chain, service, and operational data to identify bottlenecks, conflicts, capacity constraints, and optimization opportunities.
- Lead proof-of-concepts, pilot deployments, production rollouts, customer workshops, requirements gathering, and design reviews.
- Communicate recommendations and implementation strategies to technical and business leadership and influence roadmap decisions.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in manufacturing scheduling, planning processes, operations research, optimization techniques, AI-enabled decision-support systems, and related technologies.
- Strong understanding of scheduling methodologies, constraint management, capacity planning, and factory operations.
- Ability to solve ambiguous and complex operational problems using business context, technical expertise, analytical rigor, and systems thinking.
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence technical and business decisions without direct authority.
- Experience developing analytical models, automation frameworks, and AI-enabled solutions using Python, SQL, optimization algorithms, simulation tools, and cloud platforms.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and build trusted relationships with planners, operations leaders, product teams, and engineers.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employment with a comprehensive benefits package and potential eligibility for bonus and stock award programs.
- Austin, Texas location with approximately 10% travel required.
- Relocation is not available for this role.
- Supportive culture focused on learning, professional development, health, and wellbeing.
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.