Application Engineer IV (E4)

Description

The company makes materials science and engineering equipment that goes into nearly every new semiconductor chip and advanced display worldwide.

Its tools and services support AI and the commercial launch of next-generation chips.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority on optical inspection systems for semiconductor and advanced packaging work.
• Build, tune and verify inspection recipes against customer specs and real manufacturing cases.
• Design and run full application and system test plans that check performance against product specs.
• Learn customers' process problems, defect causes and inspection needs, then turn them into system and application solutions.
• Partner with systems, software, algorithms, product engineering and marketing to develop and roll out products.
• Support new product introduction, including characterization, performance checks, beta testing and customer trials.
• Analyze experiments, write technical reports and present results and recommendations to engineers, managers and customers.
• Train customers, field teams and internal staff, and give them application support so products are deployed well.
• Work onsite with customers on tool trials, troubleshooting, process development, recipe tuning and performance demos.
• Help define product requirements, rank features and plan the roadmap using customer feedback and application needs.
• Keep thorough records of application work, characterization studies, validation results and customer support.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3+ years of proven industry experience in wafer inspection or advanced packaging process.
• Hands-on experience supporting manufacturing and customer applications.
• Willing and able to travel internationally at least 30% of the time, and more when business needs require it.
• Depth, breadth or both in your specialist field.
• Able to recommend best practices that improve products, processes or services, given internal and external business challenges.
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource needs, risk or complexity.
• Able to lead others through complex problems, using sharp analysis and judgment to find innovative solutions.
• Your work affects customer, operational, project or service objectives and follows functional policies.
• Able to explain difficult concepts and negotiate so others adopt a different view.

Conditions

Full time, Assignee / Regular employee type.

Based in Santa Clara, CA.

Travel is listed at 20% of the time.

Relocation eligible.

Base salary range: $147,000.00 - $202,500.00, set by location, hire grade, job knowledge, skills, experience and internal equity.

For sales roles, the posted range is Target Total Cash: base salary plus target bonus at 100% goal achievement.

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package.
• May be eligible for a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.
• Support for personal and professional growth, and for wellbeing at work and at home.
• A supportive culture that encourages learning, career growth and new challenges.