Mechanical Engineer III (Senior) — Engineering Solutions & Process Enablement

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

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This role is for a strong mechanical engineer who will improve how engineering gets work done. You wont be designing mechanical parts or subsystems day to day but you will use your ME background and skills to standardize and scale how we work. Youll build solutions (processes tools automation standards) that the engineering community uses to move faster reduce errors and scale best practices.

What youll do:

• Identify high-friction engineering workflows and turn them into scalable solutions
• Build document and roll out process improvements
• Apply structured problemsolving and sound engineering judgment to ambiguous challenges
• Use AI as a daily tool to accelerate analysis drafting automation and knowledge capture
• Measure impact (cycle time rework escapes efficiency) and iterate based on data
• Communicate crisply across groups: whats changing why how to use it and what success looks like
• Act as a senior contributor and resource to other engineers on project execution and prioritization

Core Background:

• Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals and credibility with senior engineers
• Experience working across design manufacturing supply chain quality or sustaining teams without direct authority
• Ability to assess unfamiliar technical and business problem spaces to determine what needs to be done by whom and by when
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment
• Experience presenting concise updates to technical and leadership audiences

Skills:

• Strong project execution and coordination skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience using AI tools responsibly to draft analyze synthesize and automate routine work
• Root-cause / CI methods (8D A3 DMAIC 5-Why)

Temperament:

• High ownership and follow-through
• Drives momentum accountability and closure
• Execution-minded: delivers working improvements fast then iterates
• Comfortable with ambiguity; can make progress with partial information
• Collaborative and direct; earns trust through clarity and results
• Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on new topics and unfamiliar problem domains

Nice to have

• Experience with knowledge management standard work or system rollout/change management
• Experience launching new processes or tools and supporting change through adoption
• Tooling mindset: can prototype lightweight solutions (scripts dashboards automation) or partner tightly with those who can

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The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location hire grade job-related knowledge skills experience and with consideration of internal equity of our current team addition to a comprehensive benefits package candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program as applicable.

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