Software Architect jobs at Applied Materials in India

• Estimating, prioritizing, planning and execute quality testing activities.
• Creating detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Designing and implementing tests, debugging, and defining corrective actions.
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Closely connect with business and building test data accordingly.
• Planning and working towards research success criteria at beginning and later building qual plan for production worthiness
• Innovative in testing and defining success criteria with minimum test data
• Collaborating with customer, marketing, technical manager, developer and budling qual plan according to business need

• Minimum 8-10 years Proven work experience in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience is working research-oriented project.
• Strong Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Experience in Non-functional testing
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycles
• Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Able to communicate with international teams and interfaces outside of local site
• Strong communication skill in English. Able to speak clearly and fluently.

• Work Experience with Jira, Xray
• Good knowledge on Semi-Conductor domain

• Function as a technical support Tier for SW issues
  • Contain all field SW escalations that don’t require code changes.
  • Independently resolve customer complex issues by analyzing product and system/computing issues (SW, IT, databases)
  • Provide troubleshooting plans and technical solutions to field and Tiel-1 Tier-2 teams.
  • Reproduce customer issues on internal systems. Perform Root Cause Analysis.
  • Proactively identify points of failure and drive for resolution.
• Involvement in new SW development
  • Take part in SW development road map milestones, new features reviews, and customer demos.
  • Provide support-related inputs to be included in the next versions.
  • Participate in new products introduction.
• On-site Projects:
  • Perform new installations/SW upgrades.
  • Troubleshoot complex cases and support local teams.
• Support Infrastructure:
  • Develop training programs for field engineers and end users.
  • Proactively drive support-related feature developments within the team.
  • Initiate Support-related Specs, improvements, utilities and Document solutions, procedures, best-known methods
• Customer Experience:
  • Collect end-user pain points and work on solutions.
  • Develop in-house utilities,and tools, and work with the DevOps team to implement the same ideas, that enhance customer experience.

• Self-Learning capability and passion to learn new technology.
• At least d years' experience in technical support or a position of like Tier-3
• Proven experience with Microsoft \Linux operating systems.
• Required education: Bachelor/master’s degree in computer science and/or engineering and/or other technical degree.
• Advantage: experience in SW development / SW testing and integration
• Willingness to work off hours and weekends and willingness to travel up to 40%
• Excellent English – verbal and written
• Proven experience with Microsoft \Linux operating systems.
• Experience in 7 - 10 yrs

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the HR business requirements and design innovative technology solutions.
• Design, configure and implement end to end HR technology solutions, identifying and closing gaps in processes and dependencies and transforming the technology landscape
• Partner with HR SMEs and HRIT team members to build and document workflows and procedures for our systems.
• Assess out of the box functionality against business requirements and determine best solutions to meet requirements
• Create and maintain clear, comprehensive, documented functional specifications for requested changes, enhancements, or projects; accountable for articulating functional processes from beginning to end and providing thought leadership on functionality and design
• Maintain awareness of Workday/ServiceNow future releases / roadmap and the potential impact of those plans on current and future functionality
• Responsible for the thorough testing and analysis of new Workday/ServiceNow features and functionality and participates in release planning, accountable for regression testing, unit testing, user acceptance testing and pre-launch testing / sign-off for new features or enhancements
• Assist in testing processes from creating test cases, setting up test cases, and testing different personas through the processes
• Have a continuous improvement mindset, monitor and recommend changes to improve processes, technology, and data quality.
• Uphold excellent time management skills including technical requirements gathering, integration documentation, testing plans, and cut-over plans from a technology perspective and lead stakeholders through these standards
• Use project management skills in managing projects. Provide overall project management for given HR system initiative.
• Use HR and technical knowledge to influence, consult, communicate and manage projects from design to successful implementation

Preferred Skills, Knowledge, Experience

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering
• 5+ years of experience as Workday functional expert in multiple modules required
• Strongly prefer ServiceNow Portal and HRSD experience
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail; Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to learn quickly and work within tight deadlines; self-starter; must take personal initiative and willingly assume responsibility and ownership
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work in a high demand environment and manageambiguous situationsand/or directives
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex issues and determine appropriate solutions

What We Offer

As an architect, you will get the opportunity to grow in the field of high-performance computing, complex system design and low-level optimizations solving the unique critical issues advancing semiconductor industry.

Roles and Responsibility

• As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing High performance computing software solutions for our organization.
• You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders, to understand requirements and translate them intoarchitectural/softwaredesigns that meet business needs.
• You will be coding and developing quick prototypes to establish your design with real code and data.
• You will be a subject Matter expert to unblock software engineers in the HPC domain.
• You will be expected to profile systems to understand bottlenecks, optimize workflows and code and processes to improve cost of ownership.
• Conduct technical reviews and provide guidance to software engineers during the development process.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and issues throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies and frameworks to meet project requirements.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex software components and systems.
• Ensure that software systems are scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
• Mentor and coach junior software architects and engineers.
• Your primary focus will be on ensuring that the software systems are scalable, reliable, maintainable and cost effective.

Qualifications

• 7 to 15 years of experience in Design and coding in C/C++ preferably in Linux Environment.
• Very good knowledge Data structure and Algorithms and complexity analysis.
• Experience in developing Distributed High Performance Computing software using Parallel programming frameworks like MPI, UCX etc.
• Good knowledge of Low-latency and high-throughput data transfer technologies (RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand)
• In depth experience in Multi-threading, Thread Synchronization, Inter process communication, and distributed computing fundamentals.
• Very Good knowledge of Computer science fundamentals like, Operating systems internals (Linux Preferred), Networking and Storage systems.
• Experience in low level code optimization techniques using Vectorization and Intrinsics, cache-aware programming, lock free data structures etc.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization technologies (docker/singularity) and low latency Message queues.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to mentor and coach junior team members.
• Experience in Agile development methodologies.

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience in HPC Job-Scheduling and Cluster Management Software (SLURM, Torque, LSF etc.)
• Experience in performance profiling at application and system level (e.g. vtune, Oprofiler, perf, Nividia Nsight etc.)
• Experience in GPU programming using CUDA, OpenMP, OpenACC, OpenCL etc.
• Good Knowledge of Work-flow orchestration Software like Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Apache storm or Intel TBB flowgraph etc.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for Product software development team deliverables from requirements to final code delivery with required SW Quality .
• Learn Product Domain and Software to provide technical mentorship to teams .
• Expected to be proficient in programming and software development and managing teams of 7-10 developers .
• Ready to work in a Techno-managerial role with significant technical contribution from Manager (
  60% technical & 40% management
  )
• Given the requirement, expected to define functional specification , design specification, implementation & verification plan.
• Require strong communication skill to interact and influence stakeholders as you will need to interact with the end users of the products and applications engineering teams.
• He /She should be an expert in software development Life cycle and exposure to Agile development methodologies.
• Will require to effectively work in a multi-site environment , with teams across time zones.
• She/he is a go-getter .

Qualification and Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree / master’s degree in engineering with CE /EE background with 14-16 years of total work experience.
• Minimum 2-3 yrs experience in People management .
• Minimum of 12-year experience in software development with exposures to bug fixing, maintenance, continuous integration releases & working in complex systems.
• Minimum experience of 10+ years in Java / C#. Example – if its java, well versed with Java 8+ features (
  hands on coding & design standards
  )
• Minimum experience of 2+ years of in driving/ contributing towards HLD & LLD , participated in design reviews, contribution towards code reviews & coding practices (like clean code & SOLID principles)
• Minimum experience of 2+ years in working with large volumes of data, databases like mariaDB, posgres etc.

Good to have:

• Minimum experience of 2+ years in cloud/cloud native technologies around containers & orchestrations technologies such as dockers & Kubernetes.
• Minimum experience of 2+ years in driving architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to image analysis, computer vision and machine learning / deep learning algorithms for defect detection and metrology.
• Explore and prototyping different image analysis and computer vision algorithms.
• Integration of algorithmic solution into the overall defect detection system.
• Algorithm optimization to meet system algorithm time budget.

Required Background:

• Strong background in Image Processing/Analysis, computer vision.
• 5 to 10 Years experience.
• Expertise in prototyping algorithms in Python and/or C++.
• Product development experience for imaging systems and software.
• Proficiency in developing product-quality image analysis software in Python & C/C++. (specifically, CV methods for subpixel image registration, stitching, segmentation).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, work in a team.

Academic Qualifications:

• Ph.D. or master’s in computer science/engineering or similar fields with 5+ years of experience (in image/signal processing, Computer vision).
• Graduate level course background in Image Processing, Computer Vision & ML.
• Experience with PyTorch or similar ML frameworks – to build ML image models to train and test is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop mathematical models to solve real-world optimization problems in manufacturing where available time to results is constrained.
• Implement and solve models using commercial solvers like Gurobi , Hexaly , CPLEX. or open-source alternatives.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate optimization solutions into production systems.
• Analyze large datasets to extract insights and validate model assumptions.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders through clear visualizations and reports.
• Stay updated with the latest research and advancements in operations research and optimization technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in applying optimization techniques in an industrial setting.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python , C++ , or Java .
• Experience with optimization libraries and solvers like Gurobi , Hexaly , CPLEX , CP-SAT or Pyomo .
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.