Technical Lead - Software Engineer
Role Overview
Technical lead building software that powers semiconductor manufacturing automation.
Works with product teams, domain experts, customers, and engineers to deliver operational impact.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Technical lead building software that powers semiconductor manufacturing automation.
Works with product teams, domain experts, customers, and engineers to deliver operational impact.
What you'll do
- Lead design and development of scalable, reliable software solutions.
- Drive architecture and technical direction across services.
- Work across frontend, backend, databases, messaging, infrastructure, Kubernetes configurations, AI-powered systems, and Helm charts as needed.
- Translate manufacturing workflow challenges into effective software solutions.
- Improve productivity, quality, throughput, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Mentor engineers and improve reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Influence product direction through technical judgment and domain expertise.
Core engineering capabilities
- 8+ years building and operating production-grade software systems.
- Strong foundations in software design, distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and system architecture.
- Experience with backend services using Python, TypeScript, NestJS, or similar.
- Experience with modern web applications using React or Angular.
- Experience choosing relational and NoSQL databases for application needs.
- Experience in data science, machine learning, or reinforcement learning projects.
- Experience designing event-driven architectures and message-based systems.
- Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes.
- Manufacturing, industrial operations, or productivity platform experience is a plus; AI, analytics, optimization, and simulation exposure is also a plus.
Engineering approach and success
Values engineering judgment over experience with a specific technology; expects pragmatic choices, simplified architecture, and balanced delivery and maintainability.
Success includes trusted technical leadership, stronger scalability and maintainability, influence on technical and product decisions, and growing semiconductor manufacturing expertise.
Employment details
- Time type: Full time.
About Applied Materials
Applied Materials develops materials science and engineering solutions and equipment used in semiconductor chips and advanced displays.
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