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Job ID: R2514445
Date posted: 06/04/2025
Location: Santa Clara, California
Category: Engineering

Optical Process Engineer

Applied Materials is shaping future tech trends by turning breakthrough ideas into reality. Our expertise in materials engineering is the foundation that computers, mobile devices and flat panel displays — products touched daily by billions of people all over the world — are built on. Join us and become a part of the next wave of engineering that makes possible AI/ML, big data, autonomous vehicles, AR/VR, IoT and more.

In the Office of the CTO, we are focused on bringing Applied Materials innovations to new and adjacent markets. Our Engineered Optics team is creating new super thin (sub micron) optical surfaces based on nanometer-sized structures on transparent substrates (known as “metasurface based optics” or “flat optics”), which manipulate light in the deep sub wavelength domain and enable previously impossible capabilities. These components will be the most fundamental change in optics in hundreds of years and could be deployed in AR/VR devices, cameras, projectors, sensors, and a host of yet to be imagined opportunities — there is endless potential.

Our dedicated and talented team is working to perfect this new technology. If you’re an entrepreneurial-oriented, enthusiastic Process Engineer for back-end-of-line processes who is willing to learn and challenge yourself in creating cutting-edge technology to revolutionize the field of optics — we want you to be a part of our team.

Key Responsibilities

Process development for optical device backend production
Metrology development for process monitoring and improvement
Design, collect data, analyze and compile reports on a wide range of complex process engineering experiments for multiple products, within safety guidelines
Utilize techniques to characterize hardware, define methods and apply new technologies to characterize hardware, and/or perform hardware characterization on a wide range of complex systems for multiple products, within safety guidelines
Generate internal and external documentation for products, presentations, technical reports and generate process engineering specifications
Develop, plan and execute process engineering projects, within safety guidelines
Develop and mature processes that meet customer specs
Interact with customers to resolve a wide range of complex process engineering issues/problems
Design and implement new technology, products and analytical instrumentation
Identify, select and work with vendors and suppliers

Functional Knowledge

Gage R&R and Statistical Process Control
Data analysis using python / jmp / etc.
Hands-on experiences setting up new equipment’s and processes
Experiences in the following areas are a big plus: Dispensing systems, optical inspection, die bonding, micro- and nano-scale manufacturing.

Business Expertise
Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

Leadership
May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

Problem Solving
Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions

Impact
Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies

Interpersonal Skills
Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Skills

Certifications:

Languages:

Years of Experience:

4 - 7 Years

Work Experience:

Additional Information

Shift:

10-Day 8-Hr (United States of America)

Travel:

Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

Yes

U.S. Salary Range:

$124,000.00 - $171,000.00

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.