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Applied Materials

Systems Engineer

Applied Materials Santa Clara, CA, United States Full-time 3 months ago
Manufacturing & Equipment Engineering

$124,000 - $171,000 USD yearly

Originally posted 7 August 2026 by the employer.

About the role

You are responsible for designing, modifying, and troubleshooting electrical or electronic engineering assemblies, layouts, schematics, and drawings to support semiconductor equipment.

What you'll do

  • Coordinate the procurement and assembly of electrical or electronic components and equipment, and identify sources of critical parts and subsystems.
  • Design or modify electrical engineering assemblies, layouts, schematics, drawings, or specifications of limited scope under direct supervision.
  • Perform engineering analysis and use existing procedures to solve standard problems.
  • Perform and generate engineering test reports.
  • Generate related alpha/gamma documentation for product releases.
  • Use engineering processes to troubleshoot and resolve electrical problems of limited scope.

What you'll need

  • Master's degree.
  • Minimum of 6 years’ experience as a system design engineer.
  • Depth and/or breadth of expertise in system engineering.
  • Experience designing or modifying electrical/electronic engineering assemblies, layouts/schematics, or detailed drawings/specifications for control systems.
  • Design experience with control architecture design with system level knowledge, integration, and testing.
  • Knowledge and understanding of equipment/tools in the semiconductor industry.

Skills: electrical engineering, equipment design, control systems, schematics, troubleshooting

More semiconductor jobs: Applied Materials jobs · Equipment engineering jobs · Santa Clara jobs

Market context

This role has been open 90 days — well above the 56-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.

Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment

Open roles in category
3883
Median days open
56 d
Category median salary (all employers)
$123k
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
How Applied Materials compares in Semiconductor Equipment Engineering hiring
Metric Applied Materials All employers we track in this specialty (3883 roles · 87 employers)
Open roles in this specialty 675 3883
Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family 1176 10136 · 117 employers
Median days open 56 d 56 d (same as this employer)
Median salary (USD postings) — $123k

Skills observed across this category: electrical engineering, equipment design, control systems, schematics, troubleshooting

Who's hiring in this category

  • Applied Materials (this employer) · 656 open roles · median 57 d
  • Lam Research · 550 open roles · median 41 d
  • KLA Corporation · 314 open roles · median 58 d
  • Micron Technology · 249 open roles · median 52 d
  • ASML · 195 open roles · median 77 d
  • ASM International · 152 open roles · median 85 d

How we counted: 3883 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 87 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 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.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States
On-site
Full-time
$124,000 - $171,000 USD yearly
3 months ago

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