Application Engineer III- PDC - Chandler, AZ, United States
$108,000 - $148,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves identifying and resolving complex problems and needs at customer sites, leading recipe creation to optimize system performance, and performing application qualification of new technologies and features.
What you'll do
- Identify complex problems and needs at the customer site and work through the work cycle until the implementation of the solution.
- Lead recipe creation to optimize system performance and train PSE/AEs in recipe creation.
- Perform application qualification of new technologies/features, execute beta-sites, evaluation, and demos at customer sites.
- Participate in customer demo activities.
- Participate in finding the solution and follow up on solution execution.
- Create new methodologies to optimize system performance for specific applications.
- Analyze and transfer new application capabilities in the system envelope from product division to customer application support team.
- Participate in customer technical review meetings.
What you'll need
- Demonstrated expanded conceptual knowledge in own discipline.
- Ability to use understanding of key business drivers to accomplish own work.
- Ability to solve problems in straightforward situations, analyzing possible solutions using technical experience and judgment.
- Ability to impact quality of own work and the work of others on the team, working within guidelines and policies.
- Ability to explain complex information to others in straightforward situations.
Skills: customer site, recipe creation, application qualification, beta-sites, customer demo
This role has been open 42 days — well below the 69-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
69 d
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Median salary
$158k
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| Metric | Applied Materials | All employers we track in this specialty (191 roles · 17 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 31 | 191 |
| Median days open | 100 d | 69 d (+31 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $158k |
Skills observed across this category: customer site, recipe creation, application qualification, beta-sites, customer demo
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne · 57 open roles · median 26 d
- KLA Corporation · 43 open roles · median 114 d
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 31 open roles · median 99 d
- Keysight Technologies · 16 open roles · median 60 d
- ASML · 7 open roles · median 113 d
- ASM International · 6 open roles · median 179 d
How we counted: 191 open Applications FAE (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.