Senior Software Architect - Scalable AI-Ready Platforms

Applied Materials, Inc.; Benicia (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Materials, Inc. in Benicia, CA seeks a Software Architect to define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and design of complex software products and platforms.

The role provides technical leadership across development teams and ensures scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions aligned with product strategy. You will lead architecture reviews, guide technology selection, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product management, hardware, DevOps, and field teams to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with architecture and design responsibility.
• Strong knowledge of architecture patterns, OO design, distributed systems, APIs, and modular design.
• Proficiency in C++, C#, Java, or Python and experience with Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing.
• Able to analyze requirements and communicate trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end software architecture for assigned products, platforms, and subsystems.
• Translate requirements into robust architectural concepts and designs.
• Lead architecture reviews, set design principles, standards, and best practices.
• Identify technical debt and scalability risks to protect product design.
• Guide technology selection, API strategy, modularity, performance, and modernization.
• Collaborate with product management, systems, hardware, DevOps, and quality teams to deliver solutions.
• Provide hands-on guidance through reviews, proofs-of-concept, and issue resolution.
• Mentor technical leads and engineers, promoting architectural thinking and knowledge sharing.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and advise on adoption and ROI.

Skills

Software architecture patterns

Object-oriented design

Distributed systems

APIs

Modular design

Programming languages

Agile development

CI/CD

DevOps

Automated testing

Code quality tools

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Cloud-native technologies

Containers

Microservices

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Applied Materials, Inc. in Benicia, CA seeks a Software Architect to define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and design of complex software products and platforms.

The role provides technical leadership across development teams and ensures scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions aligned with product strategy. You will lead architecture reviews, guide technology selection, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product management, hardware, DevOps, and field teams to