Senior Key Account Technology Engineer - Korean, Japanese, or Mandarin Speaking
Originally posted 12 November 2025 by the employer.
Support customer integration and DTOR wins for Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) equipment.
About the role
As a Key Account Technologist (KAT), you will serve as a technical advisor to customers, supporting new product introductions, product enhancements, and product modifications while helping secure Development Tool of Record (DTOR) wins and optimizing installed base performance. This Phoenix-based role focuses on thin film deposition applications, including Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD).
What you'll do
- Lead process application NPI (New Product Introduction), product improvements, and product modifications across the Key Product Unit (KPU) installed base. - Serve as the primary technical interface for assigned customer accounts and develop customer relationships. - Drive resolution of process and hardware-related escalations in the field. - Define, maintain, and implement Best Known Method (BKM) processes for process applications, including standards, specifications, recipes, and installed base performance. - Partner with customer account teams and customer engineering organizations to ensure technical requirements are understood and addressed. - Collaborate with internal stakeholders across Process Development, Global Sales, Service & Spares, Account Teams, Engineering, and Global Product Management (GPM).
What you'll need
- Fluency in Korean, Japanese, or Mandarin (both written and verbal). - Master's degree or above in Materials Science, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. - Semiconductor industry experience focused primarily on thin film deposition and treatment, including Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and/or Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD). - Experience in process engineering, productivity, or similar technical customer-facing roles. - Flexibility to travel internationally up to 30% of the time.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience (or 3+ years with a Ph.D.) in the semiconductor wafer processing or capital equipment industry. - Experience with work function metals, metallization, silicides, and electrode applications in logic and/or memory.
Skills: ald, cvd, process application, npi, key account
This role has been open 211 days — well above the 80-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Deposition Process
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Open roles in category
102
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Median days open
80 d
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Median salary
$133k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | ASM International | All employers we track in this specialty (102 roles · 19 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 26 | 102 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 259 | 10037 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 81 d | 80 d (+1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $133k |
Skills observed across this category: ald, cvd, process application, npi, key account
Who's hiring in this category
- ASM International (this employer) · 26 open roles · median 82 d
- Applied Materials · 18 open roles · median 79 d
- Lam Research · 15 open roles · median 61 d
- onsemi · 7 open roles · median 23 d
- Micron Technology · 5 open roles · median 143 d
- Veeco Instruments · 5 open roles · median 89 d
How we counted: 102 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Deposition Process) roles from 19 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 26 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.