Jobs at Applied Materials

As a Customer Engineer, you install, maintain, and upgrade equipment, troubleshoot issues using analytics, and ensure customer satisfaction with service operations.

Supports Applied Materials’ Southeast Asia Regional Office through research, analysis, stakeholder engagement, project coordination, presentations, reporting, and process improvement. The intern will track regional initiatives, prepare briefing materials, communicate updates, support meetings, and identify workflow enhancements. The role develops practical skills in business research, strategic planning, project execution, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Provides administrative and clerical support by preparing documents, managing correspondence and calls, scheduling meetings, maintaining calendars, coordinating mail and travel arrangements, and assisting with projects and HR processes. Requires strong organizational, communication, coordination, and Microsoft Office skills while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Leads HR strategy for complex business units, aligning workforce, talent, culture, change management, engagement, and organizational development with business goals. Partners with executive leadership, HR Centers of Excellence, and HR operations; uses Workday and workforce analytics; supports talent pipelines, succession, annual HR programs, and mergers and acquisitions integration. Also leads enterprise-wide initiatives and multidisciplinary projects.

Supports Singapore lab operations through Opex, Capex, and spend management; budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, grant management, financial consolidation, and monthly and quarterly close activities. Develops financial models, dashboards, and reporting processes while partnering with operations, accounting, business units, and executives. Helps optimize R&D investments, improve forecast accuracy, manage grants, and implement finance systems and process improvements.

Analyzes material costs, production variances, inventory balances, and gross margin performance. Supports monthly and quarterly financial close activities, aged work-in-progress reviews, reserve analysis, and balance sheet meetings. Partners with global operations, finance controllers, and business executives to resolve finance-related transaction issues and provide recommendations for operational and financial decisions.

Manages complex technical projects and programs from planning through completion, ensuring objectives, milestones, resources, costs, quality, compliance, and timelines are met. Leads a project management team, assigns work, develops staff, resolves technical and operational issues, coordinates cross-functional information transfer, and supports research and development of technologies and processes for semiconductor equipment and services.

Supports semiconductor thin-film processes at customer sites through equipment installation, diagnosis, repair, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. Develops process experiments and designs of experiments, analyzes statistical data, and reports conclusions. Collaborates with customers, R&D, and internal stakeholders to optimize process conditions, improve tool uptime and yield, resolve product issues, and support semiconductor manufacturing technologies including CVD, ALD, RIE, PVD, anneal, and implant.

Coordinates customer order fulfillment from forecast and manufacturing slot requests through booking and shipment. Translates customer configuration requirements into buildable systems, processes non-standard requests, communicates shipment status and configuration changes, manages customer commitments and source inspections, and prepares booking checklists. Escalates booking or revenue issues and secures approvals for inside lead-time changes while collaborating with manufacturing, engineering, product, account, and project management teams.

Leads systems engineering projects and programs, defining objectives, milestones, resources, budgets, and requirements. Manages multiple teams, assigns work, develops personnel, oversees documentation and compliance, advances research and development, and ensures new processes and technologies are integrated into products and services.

Designs and optimizes semiconductor and display manufacturing processes through experimentation, data analysis, hardware characterization, film-property measurement, and root-cause troubleshooting. The role produces technical documentation, supports new technology and instrumentation implementation, collaborates with vendors and suppliers, and engages customers to resolve process engineering issues.

Develops service procedures, Best Known Methods, technical manuals, troubleshooting guides, training materials, and customer engineering notices for new semiconductor products. Supports chamber build and testing, new product final testing, failure analysis, CAPA, field issue resolution, qualification data collection, and parts stocking. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, quality, reliability, training, and global service teams, and trains customer and process engineers.

Supports deployed test fixtures through preventive maintenance, calibration, issue resolution, and sustaining engineering. Coordinates fixture deployment, evaluates designs, develops test procedures and specifications, gathers and analyzes operational data, performs root-cause and failure analysis, and drives corrective actions. The role also contributes to fixture sourcing, engineering change requests, process documentation, continuous improvement, and PFMECA activities while collaborating with design, software, manufacturing engineering, and business unit teams.

Develop and maintain manufacturing methods, processes, operating sequences, tooling requirements, and test procedures for parts, assemblies, and systems. Coordinate product improvements and new product releases with engineering teams. Apply engineering, lean, automation, and DFx principles to reduce costs, improve quality, establish time standards, and increase productivity. Investigate assembly and testing issues, perform PFMEA, identify root causes, recommend corrective actions, and report findings.

Internship opportunity with Applied Materials in Singapore. The role offers exposure to a global semiconductor equipment and materials science company, with opportunities to learn, develop, and contribute in a supportive work environment. This is a full-time intern/student position requiring approximately 10% travel. Relocation is not provided.

Designs, troubleshoots, tests, and modifies PECVD chamber hardware and mechanical systems. Provides root-cause analysis, corrective actions, tooling, fixturing, assembly, installation, procurement, qualification, and chamber maintenance support. Conducts experiments, replicates customer issues, supports configuration conversions and safety reviews, and documents engineering evaluations and qualification results while collaborating with global engineering, operations, and facilities teams.

Develops and maintains manufacturing processes, operating sequences, and methods for parts, assemblies, and finished products. Coordinates product improvements, reduces costs, improves quality, establishes time standards, and recommends tooling. Develops test procedures, evaluates work methods, performs process FMEA, identifies root causes, and implements corrective actions. The role applies lean principles, automation, and continuous improvement in a cleanroom manufacturing environment.

Supports project and program planning, execution, documentation, resource and cost tracking, milestone completion, data collection, and compliance with company policies. The role may involve studying new technologies and working in semiconductor cleanroom environments. Physical duties can include standing, walking, bending, lifting, working in tight spaces, using hand and power tools, and wearing required personal protective equipment.

Supports engineers in developing PVD processes for TSV applications. Performs process optimization, metal film property measurements, data analysis, reporting, hardware characterization, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of moderately complex process engineering issues while following safety guidelines.

Coordinates technical projects from planning through implementation, including schedules, budgets, resources, reports, quality metrics, and customer communications. Supports process improvements, supplier coordination, executive reporting, and cross-functional problem solving using 8D methodology. Requires Applied Materials customer engineering experience, familiarity with Applied products, customer-facing skills, and proficiency with SAP, Copilot, and Teamcenter. International travel to customer sites may reach 25%.