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Senior Software Engineer

Applied Materials


Job Location:

Santa Clara County, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 152000 - 208500
Posted: 4 November 2026 (12 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 1 February 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Who We Are


Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the worlds technology.


What We Offer


Salary:

$152000.00 - $208500.00

Location:

Santa ClaraCA

Youll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn develop and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possiblewhile learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.

At Applied Materials we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. Were committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work at home or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to design and develop scalable high-performance software solutions for complex data-intensive applications.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with experience in distributed systems large-scale data processing databases microservices and modern software architectures. This is a hands-on engineering role with opportunities to influence architecture and solve challenging problems across the software stack.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design develop and maintain scalable production-quality software.
  • Build solutions for large-scale data processing storage distribution and visualization.
  • Design microservices APIs and distributed applications.
  • Develop efficient data-processing pipelines for compute- and data-intensive workloads.
  • Work across Windows and Linux environments.
  • Optimize software for performance scalability reliability and maintainability.
  • Diagnose complex problems across applications services databases networking and infrastructure.
  • Participate in architecture design and code reviews.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary and globally distributed engineering teams.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship when appropriate.

Technical Skills

Strong experience in several of the following:

  • C or Java or C#
  • Microservices and distributed systems
  • Multithreading concurrency and performance optimization
  • Apache Spark Kafka or similar data-processing technologies
  • PostgreSQL MongoDB or comparable database technologies
  • Windows and Linux
  • React and/or Angular
  • REST APIs and service-oriented architectures
  • CI/CD automated testing monitoring and diagnostics

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience developing large-scale distributed systems or data-intensive applications.
  • Strong software architecture and system-design skills.
  • Experience with performance optimization and complex system troubleshooting.
  • Experience with containerization and modern deployment technologies.
  • Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
  • Domain knowledge or prior experience in semiconductor inspection semiconductor manufacturing or related semiconductor technologies is a plus.

Education and Experience :

  • BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
  • 7 years building production software including large-scale or data-intensive systems with MS 10 with BS and 5 with PH.d.

Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Yes 10% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

Yes

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.

For all sales roles the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin citizenship ancestry religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity age disability veteran or military status or any other basis prohibited by law.

In addition Applied endeavors to make our careers site accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process please contact us via e-mail at or by calling our HR Direct Help Line at option 1 and following the prompts to speak to an HR Advisor. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.


Required Experience:

Senior IC


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Applied Materials, Inc. is the global leader in materials engineering solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic (PV) industries.

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