Fp & Analyst Ii - New College Grad Mba Santa Clara Ca jobs at Applied Materials

Role Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Senior Field Service Engineers [Customer Engineers] in installing, maintaining, and upgrading customer equipment

• Use digital analytics for troubleshooting

• Apply basic diagnostic techniques to assess equipment and address technical issues, with guidance from Senior Field Service Engineers [Customer Engineers]

• Perform preventative and corrective maintenance on electrical, vacuum, mechanical, plasma, hydraulic, and gas systems (training provided)

• Coordinate and communicate directly with customers

• Fulfill additional duties, as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Completion of an Associate degree, military technical training, field service experience, or trade certification

• 1–2 years of work experience in customer/field service support, or a related technical field

• Ability to read and interpret electrical and mechanical schematics

• Experience diagnosing and resolving basic technical challenges

• Basic mechanical aptitude with pneumatics, hydraulics, electronics, vacuum, or thermodynamics

• Familiarity with hand tools and their appropriate usage, including digital multimeters

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

• Possession of a valid driver’s license and the ability to obtain a passport, if travel is required.

• Able to meet all on-site requirements, including safety, environmental guidelines, and COVID-19 protocols

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2–4 years of work experience in customer/field service support, or a related technical field

This position often requires extensive walking, standing for extended periods of time, working in tight spaces, bending, squatting, twisting, kneeling, reaching, climbing stairs and ladders, working at height, lifting up to 35 lbs., the ability to distinguish between colors and working with electricity, the ability to work in an environment with noise that may be difficult for some individuals with sensitivity to noise, and the use of hand and power tools. Additionally, because this position generally involves working in a clean room, it requires the use of appropriate Personal Protective Equipment such as coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses, gloves, respirators, chemical aprons, and face shields.

Key Responsibilities

Performs all standard service activities through Tier I unassisted. Performs standard Tier II with assistance. Able to perform routine preventative maintenance within established timeframes. Completes quality repairs.

Responds to fab issues by communicating with other engineers and participating in escalation conference calls. May participate in projects to reduce costs and increase uptime.

Verifies operational quality of system equipment. Assists senior engineers as needed.

Applies diagnostic techniques and use of documentation and test equipment with assistance from senior engineers. Ability to diagnose and resolve technical problems. Uses training and experience to identify some process, software or hardware related system problems.

Complies with all safety procedures and consistently demonstrates safety as a value.

Functional Knowledge

• Has established skills to perform a range of day-to-day activities

Business Expertise

• Understands how the assigned duties relate to others in the team and how the team integrates with others in the discipline
• Assumes responsibility for full customer satisfaction assuring excellent relations within assigned area

Leadership

• Has no supervisory responsibilities; manages own workload

Problem Solving

• Recognizes and solves typical problems that can occur in own work area without supervisory approval; evaluates and selects solutions from established options

Impact

• Impacts own team through the quality of the services or information provided; follows standardized procedures and practices and receives regular but moderate supervision and guidance

Interpersonal Skills

• Uses communication skills to exchange information

What We Offer

Applied Materials’ Systems Engineering C&F is searching for an intern to join our team in summer 2026! This team is involved in system design, analysis, and product development. The position will entail the following:

• Completion of finite element analysis assignments that estimate the structural and modal characteristics of engineering designs.
• Working with system engineers, supporting measurement and analysis efforts associated with new system, or sub-system design.
• Maintain testing equipment and completing annual calibration procedures.
• Write procedures or test plans for data collection as needed.
• Accessing the machine control system remotely, extracting data from the database, creating reports, presenting findings to the vibration team.
• Completing a research project that will expand best known methods. Publish articles on Applied Wiki (internal online encyclopedia).
• Bi-weekly meetings with supervisor to review status of assigned projects.
• Assisting with other Team projects, tasks, and activities.

Requirements

• Student must be pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program in Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a similar field.
• Student must be in good academic standing at their university, with a GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale
• Experience in semiconductor processing or manufacturing preferred
• Quick learner

2026 Summer Internship program start/end dates:

$31 - $41 per hour

Skills/Experience

• Cognizant of safety and able to design test equipment with safety first in mind.
• Ability to read engineering drawings & perform test fixtures design and develop engineering drawings user manuals for the automated test equipment.
• Automated test equipment development and experience knowledgeable of electromechanical assemblies and sensor technologies (vacuum sensors, accelerometers, thermocouple etc.)
• Data acquisition hardware & software expertise. Ability to understand and write code (C, C#) is a plus
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal & communication skills. Pays attention to details able to work in lab environment.
• Able to work independently and in team environment with limited supervision.
• Ability to troubleshoot electronics and electro-mechanical systems, experimental design circuitry, prototype, tools and test fixtures.
• Provide test fixture support on all installed base test fixtures
• Collaborate with new product engineers, capture test requirements, good communication skills and excellent customer service.
• Knowledgeable in AMAT vacuum Robots, COBOTs and industrial automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide TF sustaining support for deployed fixtures to ensure minimal down time and customer impact.Coordinates/Performstest fixture PM and Calibration activities as scheduled and follows-up on OOT issues as required.
• Interfaces with other test engineers and BU customers to coordinate the deployment of new test fixtures. Begin evaluating, designing and project managing own test fixture projects and solicit assistance as needed. Documents and tracks deployment issues to closure and initiates appropriate engineering change request as required.
• Uses basic engineering and DFx principles to estimate and reduce test fixture development costs and improve delivered fixture quality;
• Develops and uses test procedures. Assists with the definition of test specifications with design, software, and manufacturing engineering. May assist in the coordination and/or execution of test fixture sourcing activities.
• Gathers operational and test data and evaluates results; may takecorrective/continuousimprovement actions.
• Evaluates work methods, procedures and policies. Participates in the development and maintenance of new and existing business processes; updates as necessary to ensure current practices are documented.
• Determines root cause and corrective action analysis for issues that arise during design and deployment of test fixtures and provides failure analysis report as required.
• Performs Process Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis when working with New Product/Fixture Development.

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates expanded conceptual knowledge in own discipline and broadens capabilities

Business Expertise

• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work

Leadership

• No supervisory responsibilities but provides informal guidance to new team members

Problem Solving

• Solves problems in straightforward situations; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents

Impact

• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations

TEAM OVERVIEW:

• We are a team of program managers that solve high impact issues in the Semiconductor world. We are looking for innovative problem solvers that are driven by curiosity and creativity. We go above and beyond, working together in a supportive and collaborative environment to ensure customer satisfaction.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive strategic programs and projects related supply chain and engineering issues to support Applied Material's spares and services business
• Analyze data using tools from basic excel, to Tableau Power BI, as well as embracing AI to support analytics and decision making.
• Develop strategies that drive the future of supply chain at Applied Materials.
• Interact with all cross-functional groups, from external teams suppliers and customers, to internal team of engineers, supply chain, legal, and operational teams.
• Improve internal processes to drive cost down and efficiency up.
• Complies with all policies and standards

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Background in basic program / project management concepts
• Understanding of supply chain fundamentals
• Ability to analyze data and create presentations (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Preferred semiconductor knowledge/experience
• Data analysis

REQUIREMENTS/EDUCATION:

• Minimum: Masters Degree/ MBA
• Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, or MBA
• GPA requirements 3.0 or above

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please apply by January 30, 2026. Note: This position may close early based on application volume or candidate selection.

Job Mission

This Job requires knowledge and experience in own discipline; acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills. Builds knowledge of the company, processes and customers. Solves a range of straightforward problems. Analyzes possible solutions using standard procedures. Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible to support process related CD metrology (CD-SEM) and defect review(DR-SEM) , create recipes, build SOPs, BKMs, recipe CIPs , run production and engineers support , training other engineers.

• Takes an active part in the tool related test and qualifications, monitoring data execution and collection , tool health monitoring test etc. Support team members for engineering projects metrology requests and data analysis

• Supports daily operations in the lab and in the field when required. Regularly interacts with senior engineers and Hardware engineers if tool has issues, can help do basic trouble shooting, also can identify and define the problem status , work with HW team to solve the issue.

• Prepare and presentations regarding metrology and defect review related issues and problem solving, share and promote new ideas and capabilities.

• Be flexible and willing to learn conventional and new lithography technologies with different type of substrates. The lithography tool can be DUV, h-line or i-line etc

Functional Knowledge

Regarded as the technical expert in the cd SEM and DR SEM

Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

Hands on experience in photolithography will be a strong plus

Hands on experience on metrology tool like X-SEM, Camtek will be plus

Business Expertise

• Anticipates business and regulatory issues; Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work

Problem Solving

Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates complex ideas

• Strong problem solving and creative thinking skills

• Quick learner and flexibility in working time

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills both internally and externally

Working schedule

Shift type: Regular (On site)

Education:

• Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Materials Science and Engineering or equivalent, Electric/Photonic Engineering or equivalent.

Years of Experience:

• 3+ Years

Work Experience:

• 3+ years of hands on experience in semiconductor industry

• Lithography process

• Film and metrology like CD-SEM tools

• Failure analysis ability with SEM Camtek, AFM, etc., will be a plus

• Layout design with Python, MatLab or equivalent, will be a plus