Applied Materials · 3 days ago
Application Engineer II
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$100K/yr - $136K/yr
3+ years expApplied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. The Application Engineer II will support cutting-edge AR/VR devices, focusing on process-related metrology and defect review, while collaborating with engineering teams to optimize manufacturing processes.
ElectronicsManufacturingSemiconductorSoftware
Responsibilities
Responsible to support process related CD metrology (CD-SEM) and defect review(DR-SEM) , create recipes, build SOPs, BKMs, recipe CIPs , run production and engineers support , training other engineers
Takes an active part in the tool related test and qualifications, monitoring data execution and collection , tool health monitoring test etc. Support team members for engineering projects metrology requests and data analysis
Supports daily operations in the lab and in the field when required. Regularly interacts with senior engineers and Hardware engineers if tool has issues, can help do basic trouble shooting, also can identify and define the problem status , work with HW team to solve the issue
Prepare and presentations regarding metrology and defect review related issues and problem solving, share and promote new ideas and capabilities
Be flexible and willing to learn conventional and new lithography technologies with different type of substrates. The lithography tool can be DUV, h-line or i-line etc
Qualification
Required
Bachelor/Master's Degree in Materials Science and Engineering or equivalent, Electric/Photonic Engineering or equivalent
3+ Years
3+ years of hands on experience in semiconductor industry
Lithography process
Film and metrology like CD-SEM tools
Preferred
Failure analysis ability with SEM Camtek, AFM, etc., will be a plus
Layout design with Python, MatLab or equivalent, will be a plus
Hands on experience in photolithography will be a strong plus
Hands on experience on metrology tool like X-SEM, Camtek will be plus
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Participation in a bonus and a stock award program
Company
Applied Materials
Applied Materials is a semiconductor and display equipment company that offers materials engineering solutions.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.1BKey Investors
Stonnington GroupUS Department of Energy
2025-02-24Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2023-06-27Post Ipo Equity· $0.38M
2022-10-19Grant· $100M
Leadership Team
Omkaram Nalamasu
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Tony Chiang, Ph.D
VP, CTO Applied AI
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