Senior Director, Process Engineer PMTS
$200,000 - $275,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Applied Materials is seeking a technical leader to serve as a strategic partner to Business Units, bridging characterization and metrology capabilities with product strategy and technology roadmaps.
What you'll do
- Serve as the primary liaison between the Characterization organization and Business Units, aligning analytical capabilities with product, customer, and technology roadmaps.
- Identify and prioritize critical technical challenges impacting product performance, yield, reliability, productivity, and cost.
- Leverage characterization and metrology expertise to support product development, process optimization, hardware innovation, and customer issue resolution.
- Lead complex initiatives involving multiple Business Units, research organizations, platform teams, and external partners.
- Support customer-facing activities and technical reviews related to materials, process, defect, and device characterization challenges.
- Recommend investments in tools, methodologies, workflows, and technical competencies to senior leadership.
What you'll need
- Technical leadership experience aligning analytical, metrology, and characterization capabilities with semiconductor product roadmaps.
- Proven track record addressing complex challenges in materials, process, defect, and device characterization.
- Demonstrated experience driving process optimization, yield improvement, and product reliability initiatives.
- Experience managing cross-functional initiatives across business units, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
Skills: metrology, characterization, process optimization, materials science, yield
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 63-day median for Process Engineering roles.
Process Engineering · Semiconductor Process
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Open roles in category
1023
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Median days open
63 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$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 (1023 roles · 55 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 67 | 1023 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 1175 | 10150 · 117 employers |
| Median days open | 73 d | 63 d (+10 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $135k |
Skills observed across this category: metrology, characterization, process optimization, materials science, yield
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 290 open roles · median 123 d
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 65 open roles · median 75 d
- Texas Instruments · 59 open roles · median 67 d
- GlobalFoundries · 51 open roles · median 73 d
- STMicroelectronics · 49 open roles · median 62 d
- Entegris · 46 open roles · median 40 d
How we counted: 1023 open Process Engineering (Semiconductor Process) roles from 55 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Nov 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.