Field Applications Engineer New College Grad - Master's/PhD (Santa Clara, Austin, Gloucester, Phoenix)

Description

The company makes materials engineering equipment used to produce nearly every new semiconductor chip and advanced display, and it services that equipment.

Its tools are central to AI development and to bringing next-generation chips to market.

You would join a team working at the base of the electronics industry.

Responsibilities

• Find complex problems and needs at customer sites and stay with each one until the fix is in place.
• Lead recipe development to improve system performance, and train PSE and AE colleagues on recipe creation.
• Qualify new technologies and features, and run beta-site trials, evaluations and demos at customer sites.
• Take part in customer demonstrations.
• Help find solutions and track how they are carried out.
• Build new methods that improve system performance for specific applications.
• Analyze new application capabilities within the system envelope and hand them from the product division to the customer application support team.
• Attend customer technical review meetings.
• Use academic and professional experience to design, develop and improve AI/ML and data science methods that diagnose leading-edge equipment and high-value customer problems.
• Work with several groups to solve customer challenges and build customer trust, collaboration and success.
• Work alongside AI/ML and software developers, and with semiconductor and display equipment, process and integration engineers.
• Build on your existing technical knowledge in your discipline and widen your skills.
• Understand the main business drivers and use that understanding in your own work.
• You have no supervisory duties but give informal guidance to newer team members.
• Solve problems in straightforward situations by weighing possible solutions against your technical judgment and past precedent.
• Influence the quality of your own work and that of your teammates while following guidelines and policies.
• Explain complex information to others in straightforward situations.

Requirements

• A Master's or PhD in Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering, Physics, Statistics, or AI/ML, or a closely related field.
• Preferred: semiconductor or display R&D experience or coursework.
• Preferred: a GPA of 3.0 or above.

Conditions

Full-time, new college graduate position.

Travel is 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance is available.

Locations: Austin, TX; Santa Clara, CA; Gloucester; and Phoenix.

Salary range: $86,500.00 - $119,000.00, based on location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity with current team members.

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

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Apply by December 30, 2026; the position may close early based on application volume or candidate selection.

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package.
• Possible eligibility for a bonus and a stock award program, where applicable.
• Support for personal and professional growth, and for health and wellbeing at work, at home and elsewhere.