Application Development Engineer - (E3 or E4) - Chandler, AZ, United States
$128,000 - $176,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role leads product application roadmaps, customer engagements, and technical activities for semiconductor manufacturing equipment deployments.
What you'll do
- Serve as technical lead for complex application development activities, customer engagements, and cross-functional project teams. - Drive execution of beta-site evaluations, customer demonstrations, and proof-of-concept activities aligned with Statements of Work (SOWs) and project schedules. - Partner with customers to analyze technical requirements, define success criteria, and manage implementation timelines. - Develop and approve application support plans to ensure successful product installation and deployment. - Create and implement methodologies to optimize system performance for specific customer applications. - Analyze, develop, validate, and transfer new application capabilities from product development teams to customer-facing application support organizations.
What you'll need
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field. - Advanced expertise in a specialized technical discipline to solve complex customer challenges. - Proven experience interpreting technical and business requirements to build solutions, processes, or product enhancements. - Demonstrated background guiding cross-functional teams, projects, and customer engagements.
Nice to have
- Ph.D. in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field. - Experience in semiconductor inspection, metrology, testing, or advanced packaging applications. - Experience working directly with semiconductor customers supporting product evaluations, installations, and application development.
Skills: customer technologies, beta-site evaluations, proof-of-concept, technical lead, application support plans
This role has been open 97 days — well above the 71-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
191
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Median days open
71 d
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Median salary
$155k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Applied Materials | All employers we track in this specialty (191 roles · 17 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 28 | 191 |
| Median days open | 73 d | 71 d (+2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $155k |
Skills observed across this category: customer technologies, beta-site evaluations, proof-of-concept, technical lead, application support plans
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne · 58 open roles · median 32 d
- KLA Corporation · 43 open roles · median 118 d
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 29 open roles · median 102 d
- Keysight Technologies · 15 open roles · median 70 d
- ASML · 7 open roles · median 119 d
- Veeco Instruments · 7 open roles · median 77 d
How we counted: 191 open Applications FAE (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.