Product Engineer 5 - US-CA-Fremont (1003), United States
$125,000 - $270,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Product Engineer at Lam Research, you will lead product development projects from prototyping through deployment and field support, resolving customer challenges and improving product quality. The role focuses on plasma chamber equipment subsystems, RF power delivery, and semiconductor process design solutions.
What you'll do
- Lead product development projects from product prototyping, development, deployment/product release, and initial field support. - Oversee the FMEA process and leverage results for qualification strategy development, risk identification, and mitigation actions. - Engineer semiconductor equipment and process design solutions to resolve customer issues and improve product quality. - Design and conduct experiments, tests, and prototypes to resolve complex technical problems in a cleanroom lab or customer semiconductor fab environment. - Provide engineering support for resolving customer escalations related to product issues. - Present project status and final engineering results across business organization level review meetings.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience, Master's with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years in Material Science, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering (or equivalent experience). - 9+ years of applicable experience in manufacturing processes and design, preferably in the semiconductor industry. - Knowledge of plasma chamber equipment subsystems, operating principles, fundamental electromagnetics, RF power delivery, and plasma processing chemistries. - Knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC), statistical measurements/analysis, and hypothesis tests, with proficiency in statistical analysis software such as JMP, Origin, or MiniTab. - Demonstrated capability for hands-on equipment operation and troubleshooting.
Nice to have
- PhD in Material Science, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering with 6+ years of applicable experience in the semiconductor industry. - Experience leading cross-functional program teams, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Root Cause-Corrective Action (RCCA). - General knowledge of dry etch process applications and the effect of process parameters on etch rate, selectivity, profile, and defectivity. - Experience with wafer metrology equipment such as SEM, CDSEM, Ellipsometry, and Optical Defect Inspection. - Knowledge of semiconductor device manufacturing operations including lithography, wet and dry etching, deposition, electroplating, and CMP.
Skills: product development, customer challenges, process design solutions, FMEA, product quality
This role has been open 95 days — well above the 80-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
154
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Median days open
80 d
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Median salary
$176k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Lam Research | All employers we track in this specialty (154 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 154 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 15 | 2242 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 92 d | 80 d (+12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $176k |
Skills observed across this category: product development, customer challenges, process design solutions, FMEA, product quality
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 12 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD · 10 open roles · median 105 d
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 174 d
- onsemi · 10 open roles · median 83 d
- Entegris · 8 open roles · median 94 d
- NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 53 d
How we counted: 154 open Product Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.