Jobs at Applied Materials

Manages regional customer engineering teams supporting semiconductor equipment startups, warranty, service agreements, system uptime, inventories, RMAs, and customer satisfaction. Forecasts financial and staffing needs, oversees hiring and development, ensures safety and compliance, escalates system downtime, controls costs, and drives technical quality and continuous improvement initiatives.

Provides technical support for semiconductor equipment at customer sites, handling escalations, fleet performance, installations, upgrades, troubleshooting, and system improvement programs. Supports alpha and beta site testing, reviews engineering change orders, analyzes performance metrics and spending, develops technical documentation, and presents findings to customers and internal teams. The role requires engineering education, preferably PVD equipment experience, cleanroom work, cross-region collaboration, and extensive travel across Asia.

Drives service readiness and technical support for semiconductor equipment platforms. Develops service procedures, troubleshooting guides, maintenance and repair documentation, and technical training. Supports product introduction, qualification, reliability, failure analysis, root cause investigations, corrective actions, escalated troubleshooting, spare-parts readiness, and global field deployments. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service teams while analyzing equipment performance and supporting customer activities.

Plans and coordinates projects from initiation through implementation, tracking deliverables, schedules, resources, costs, and process improvements. Aligns internal teams to meet project objectives, reports cost performance, participates in design teams, and researches obstacles to help implement solutions. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, problem-solving, consensus building, and contributing to technical project goals.

Develops and maintains manufacturing methods, operating sequences, and processes for parts, components, subassemblies, and final assemblies. Coordinates product improvements, applies engineering and DFx principles to reduce costs and improve quality, establishes time standards, recommends tooling, develops test procedures, and investigates root causes using PFMEA. Supports continuous improvement, automation, operational excellence, and night-shift manufacturing 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.