Lam Research · 14 hours ago
Software Engineer 3
Waltham, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
6+ years expLam Research is a company focused on semiconductor manufacturing, and they are seeking a Software Engineer 3. The role involves the development and maintenance of control systems software for semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment, leading projects, and mentoring junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
CleanTechManufacturingSemiconductor
Responsibilities
Software requirement gathering, design, development, testing of projects for a chamber in wafer fabrication equipment involving multiple device interactions
Responsible for defect fixing and maintenance of software install base by analysing, debugging, and fixing customer issues
Analysis and troubleshooting of software and hardware communication issues, command/response implementation on serial, Ethernet, Ether CAT connectivity
Actively contributes to technical reviews, guide junior engineers in design and implementation phases of product software
Plans, co-ordinates, technical reviews multiple SW development activities (multi-tasking) in parallel to SW project development
Applies past learnings and experiences to demonstrates abilities in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions based on customer and product groups business requirements
Qualification
Required
Eligibility Criteria: Years of Experience: 6-9 Years
Educational qualification: Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering
Exposure and experience in CFT to understand hardware specification, schematics and convert into Software requirements, design, and implementation
Hands on experience of design and developing equipment/machine control software using object-oriented program
Exposure and experience with serial, MODBUS and EtherCat protocol implementation between Software and Hardware controller communication
Interested in semiconductor domain and keen to work in wafer-fabrication equipment software using Smalltalk programming language
Strong understanding and experience in OOPS concepts
Strong analytical, logical, problem solving, trouble shooting skills
Hands on experience in complete project development life cycle like waterfall, Agile, Kanban models etc
Strong communication and presentation skills
Preferred
Experience in working on embedded systems
Experience in programming in C/C++/Python
Knowledge on EtherCat based device communications
Hands on experience in software source control and bug tracking tools
Hands on experience in RTOS
Experience in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry
Understanding of distributed systems
Knowledge of equipment control framework like ControlWORKS
Benefits
Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role.
Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex.
‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week.
‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.
Company
Lam Research
Lam Research supplies wafer fabrication equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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Leadership Team
Tim Archer
President and CEO
Rick Gottscho
Exec VP and CTO
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