Application Engineer IV

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate (be VOC) customer requirement with product engineering team to address market demands.
• Coordinate customers internal teams to deploy and optimize control solutions to achieve factory KPIs.
• Coordinate with systems administration and IT teams on developing and deploying control solutions.
• Present technical information to customers including technical contributors and managers.
• Create and implement software training and/or demonstrations.
• Project management tasks
• Perform software installations.
• Knowledge base contribution/management
• Deliver statements of work (SOW) and customer expectation management
• Improve operations through continuous improvement standards such as: 8D, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 5-Whys.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information

Key Skills and Experience:

• Two-four years of experience working in semiconductor, pharmaceutical, solar, or chemical manufacturing
• Experience with factory automation applications with specific experience in process control
• Process control expertise such as time series analysis, model predictive control, multivariate modeling, optimization, R2R, SPC, and FDC
• Experience working with other factory automation and business systems such as Equipment Automation, Recipe Management and MES
• Project management skills with ability to work on multiple projects concurrently.
• Expert in application of E3 products or similar for implementing process control.
• Working knowledge of databases and use of SQL, KDB, PostgreSQL for data collection & manipulation
• Working knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as R, Python, C#
• Working knowledge of data analysis platforms such as Tableau, JMP, or MATLAB
• Experience explaining technical concepts to Sr. management and managing diverse requirements among multiple stakeholders

Functional Knowledge

• Software expertise – familiarity working with enterprise automation software running on Windows or Unix platforms with Oracle, Postgres SQL and KDB database
• Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines.

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

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Yes, 25% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

No

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.