Optical Engineering Director — Lead High-Impact Systems

Applied Materials, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Materials, Inc. is seeking an Optical Engineering Director for the Imagine and Process Control Group (IPC) in Santa Clara, CA.

You will own technically leadership and execution of engineering projects and spearhead R&D of new technologies, leading an engineering team and partnering with business leaders on existing and new products. You should bring 20+ years in optical design engineering, including 8+ years leading teams, with a track record across specification, design, verification,

Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience within the optical design engineering field (including 8+ yrs leading Engineering teams) for the development of high-performance optical systems used in the semiconductor industry.
• Experience leading teams in all aspects of the design cycle from specification development, design, supplier support, part verification, and integration.
• Provide support for system alignment procedures and tooling development.
• Experience developing optical systems and have experience working in a product development environment.
• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field.
• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function.
• Responsible for the development of major optical subsystems. Work with system engineers to develop design specifications and trade-offs between sub-systems.
• Collaborate and communicate with suppliers during design of critical optical sub-assemblies.
• Evaluate and analyze optical systems. Understand performance limits and manufacturability.
• Develop alignment strategies and tooling.
• Develop and maintain error budgets and define subsystem level requirements to be characterized and validated during the system alpha testing phase for current and future products.
• Use customer and system requirements to derive design specifications for subsystems, modules, and components and provide input to design engineers throughout the design process.

Responsibilities

• Managing a team of Optical Engineers across multiple programs
• Lead and/or develop and execute significantly complex system projects. Oversees and approves designs in team design reviews. Takes active part in the design of complex modules / sub-modules. Approve qualification results of complex modules
• Defines experiments and determines the type of meaningful data required to support evaluation and technical decision
• Problem identification and troubleshooting a wide range of significantly complex problems. Oversees and approves research and analysis results. Supports high level / complex physics related application and system issues in the lab and in the field when required.
• Function as specialist for physics/scientists issues, while influencing and utilizing expertise in interfacing with external and internal customers, lead and/or develop and execute system projects, troubleshooting system problems, and defining system specifications and schedules.
• Apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts. Takes an active part in product risk management discussions leveraginghis / herexpertise and knowledge to influence and drive risk management decisions.
• Initiates innovative physics/science projects, which extend boundaries of system performance or techno. Leads the selection and management ofstrategic vendors.
• Provide mentoring for less experienced physicist/scientists.
• Research new technologies and analyze competition technology. Evaluate new technologies. Plan and execute complex feasibility studies of new technologies and lead the decision-making process. Prepare and deliver papers regarding new technologies, share and promote new ideas and capabilities.

Skills

Optical design leadership

Engineering team leadership

System project leadership

Vendor management

Customer engagement

Job description

Applied Materials, Inc. is seeking an Optical Engineering Director for the Imagine and Process Control Group (IPC) in Santa Clara, CA.

You will own technically leadership and execution of engineering projects and spearhead R&D of new technologies, leading an engineering team and partnering with business leaders on existing and new products. You should bring 20+ years in optical design engineering, including 8+ years leading teams, with a track record across specification, design, verification,