Customer Engineer III - Allen, TX, United States
$45 - $62 USD yearly
Originally posted 23 July 2026 by the employer.
Support photolithography and mask laser writer equipment installations, upgrades, and maintenance at customer sites.
About the role
As a Customer Engineer III at Applied Materials, you will serve as the direct liaison with customers to install, maintain, and upgrade equipment. This role is based at the Photronics Allen, TX site supporting photolithography and mask laser writer sustaining service contracts, equipment installations, and upgrades.
What you'll do
- Install, maintain, and upgrade customer equipment, including photolithography and mask laser writer systems. - Perform preventative and corrective maintenance on electrical, vacuum, mechanical, plasma, hydraulic, and gas systems. - Apply digital analytics, diagnostic techniques, and documentation to troubleshoot and resolve equipment issues. - Follow and generate documented procedures and published task plans. - Communicate with customers and internal business units, leading projects as necessary. - Train and mentor junior field service engineers.
What you'll need
- Completion of an Associate degree or comparable military technical training and field service experience. - 4+ years of work experience in the semiconductor industry or other equipment support industry. - Advanced mechanical aptitude with pneumatics, hydraulics, electronics, vacuum, and/or thermodynamics. - Strong knowledge of hand tools and their appropriate usage, including digital multimeters. - Familiarity with test equipment. - Possession of a valid driver’s license and the ability to obtain a passport.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree. - Precision mechanical equipment repair experience. - Oscilloscope experience. - Project management skills and the ability to lead key customer and internal product meetings.
Skills: preventative maintenance, vacuum, plasma, electrical, customer liaison
This role has been open 187 days — well above the 79-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Lithography Systems
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Open roles in category
54
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Median days open
79 d
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Median salary
$135k
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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 (54 roles · 13 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 54 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 1124 | 10037 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 115 d | 79 d (+36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $135k |
Skills observed across this category: preventative maintenance, vacuum, plasma, electrical, customer liaison
Who's hiring in this category
- ASML · 29 open roles · median 48 d
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 4 open roles · median 114 d
- GlobalFoundries · 4 open roles · median 124 d
- Micron Technology · 4 open roles · median 167 d
- Onto Innovation · 3 open roles · median 94 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 2 open roles · median 122 d
How we counted: 54 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Lithography Systems) roles from 13 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 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 — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.