Application Engineer-Guangzhou/Chengdu/Wuxi/Wuhan-Y2027 Graduate - China
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves understanding customer technical challenges, developing technical solutions, and managing application projects to achieve project goals.
What you'll do
- Understand customer technical challenges and business needs to translate them into implementable technical solutions.
- Drive complex application projects, collaborating with R&D, product, service, and customer teams.
- Support customer site evaluations and technical demonstrations to ensure project implementation and desired outcomes.
- Lead solution development, validation, and implementation to realize customer value.
- Develop and optimize application methods to enhance system performance and meet customer process and production requirements.
- Facilitate the transfer of new product capabilities and best practices to customer support teams.
What you'll need
- Master's degree or higher, graduating in 2027.
- Background in Microelectronics, Physics, Chemistry, or Materials Science.
- Excellent teamwork and fast learning abilities.
- Strong English communication and technical presentation skills.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30%.
Skills: customer technical challenges, technical solutions, application projects, customer evaluation, technical demonstrations
This role has been open 34 days — well below the 68-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
68 d
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Median salary
$148k
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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 | 30 | 191 |
| Median days open | 59 d | 68 d (−9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $148k |
Skills observed across this category: customer technical challenges, technical solutions, application projects, customer evaluation, technical demonstrations
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne · 62 open roles · median 34 d
- KLA Corporation · 39 open roles · median 127 d
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 31 open roles · median 62 d
- Keysight Technologies · 15 open roles · median 77 d
- ASML · 8 open roles · median 118 d
- Veeco Instruments · 7 open roles · median 84 d
How we counted: 191 open Applications FAE (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 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.