Lam Research

Job Responsibilities

As a Software Applications Engineer at Lam, you’ll be at the forefront of driving innovation and adoption of our software products. Our software is created by world-class engineers in many disciplines: software engineering, numerical physics, statistics, electrical engineering, quality assurance and development operations. You’ll support fast product evolution through agile processes by analyzing, designing, programming, testing, debugging, and enhancing software applications. With your expertise and initiative, you’ll turn ideas into great products that drive advancements in Lam’s semiconductor technology.

In this role, you will directly contribute to supporting etch product group in defense and penetration of critical projects directly contributing to Lam’s market share and revenue. You will work closely with a team of process engineers to develop feature scale models to predict on wafer performance.

• Design, develop, improve, and maintain key application models which calibrate with experimental data for various projects in etch product group.
• Drive adoption of internal software products across Lam including Etch and Deposition Product Groups.
• Collaborate with application teams and process engineers in planning, data collection, modeling, data analysis, and report results to stakeholders.
• Partner cross-functionally to understand Product roadmaps, process flow, inflection points, software requirements, and business use cases.
• Provide requirements and user stories to product managers and developers to ensure required capabilities are available for applications.
• Acts as single point of contact accountable for applications and key projects.
• Develop clean, scalable, maintainable, and testable application code.
• Implement unit, integration, and end-to-end testing to enhance functionality of software applications.
• Work closely with process engineers to develop and validate feature scale models to enhance process understanding, guide new experiments to break process trade-offs on structured wafers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree with 3 years of experience; or a PhD with 1-2 years of experience in Material Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python programming or other programming languages.
• Familiarity with software product development methodologies.
• Effective organizational skills to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, adjust to shifting priorities, and meet business needs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to coordinate and communicate with diverse, cross-functional, and matrixed internal and external partners.
• Prior hands-on semiconductor experience is preferred with knowledge of process development for deposition and etch.

Our Commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.