Project Engineer 4 - US-CA-Fremont (1003), United States
$104,000 - $231,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 24 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on enabling customer-driven product requirements (NSRs).
About the role
This role involves serving as a program leader responsible for driving complex customer requests from initial scoping through release and implementation. It focuses on delivering customer-specific solutions while maintaining product quality, schedule commitments, and business objectives within Lam’s etch and deposition products.
What you'll do
- Lead complex Non-Standard Request (NSR) programs from concept, feasibility assessment, planning, development, qualification, release, and implementation.
- Ensure customer requirements are clearly understood, documented, and aligned across stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain integrated schedules, risk assessments, mitigation plans, and execution strategies.
- Evaluate technical solutions and tradeoffs to ensure customer requirements are met while maintaining product integrity.
- Drive issue resolution for technical, operational, and execution challenges.
- Facilitate design reviews, decision reviews, readiness reviews, and customer commitment reviews.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of engineering, program management, project engineering, systems engineering, or product development experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional projects from concept through release.
- Strong understanding of engineering development processes and product lifecycle management.
- Experience leading teams without direct authority.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
Nice to have
- Semiconductor capital equipment industry experience.
- Experience with customer-specific product development, configuration management, or NSR processes.
- Knowledge of product development, qualification, manufacturing, and release processes.
- Experience with SAP, PLM, ERP, project management tools, Power BI, or SharePoint.
- Experience presenting to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success driving process improvements and organizational change.
Skills: program leadership, customer-specific solutions, cross-functional teams, schedule management, risk assessment
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 48-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
369
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$152k
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| Metric | Lam Research | All employers we track in this specialty (369 roles · 39 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 68 | 369 |
| Median days open | 29 d | 48 d (−19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: program leadership, customer-specific solutions, cross-functional teams, schedule management, risk assessment
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 96 open roles · median 50 d
- Lam Research (this employer) · 69 open roles · median 29 d
- Micron Technology · 41 open roles · median 118 d
- ASML · 23 open roles · median 77 d
- Teradyne · 15 open roles · median 6 d
- KLA Corporation · 13 open roles · median 71 d
How we counted: 369 open Technical Program Management (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 39 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 Sept 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.