Sr Ip Counsel jobs at Applied Materials

Key Responsibilities

• Preparationandreviewof reportsfiledwith theSEC,includingdisclosureson Forms10-K,10-Qand8-K,andSection16 reporting.
• Preparationforquarterlyearningsannouncements,includingreviewofearnings call scripts, earnings releases andinvestorpresentations, and other internal and external corporate communications.
• Provide support for the Board of Directors and its committees, including preparation and review of meeting materials, written consents and minutes.
• Support corporate governance matters, including shareholder engagement, shareholder proposals, and sustainability reporting, research investor and proxy advisory firm policies, and benchmark governance best practices
• Partner with Treasury on share repurchases, dividends, financings and other matters.
• Provide advice and counsel on Delaware corporate law, SEC and Nasdaq regulations, and general corporate matters.
• Remain informed of legislation, regulatory developments, and industry trends affecting the Company, and assist with the development of policies and training as needed.
• Develop strong relationships with internal clients and colleagues, and work collaboratively across functions to manage risk and find solutions that balance legal risk with the Company’s business objectives.
• Create, implement and improve processes to mitigate risk and reduce inefficiencies in processes, forms and operations.
• Activelymanageexternalcounsel,advisors,vendorsand relatedbudgets.

Job Requirements

• JD degree and active membership in state bar.
• At least 4 years of experience in general corporate matters at a law firm or in-house, including securities law, corporate finance and corporate governance issues.
• Proactive, highly motivated self-starter with a high level of intellectual, professional and interpersonal agility, combined with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate complex issues simply and to provide actionable legal advice.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong organizational and planning skills; capacity to work independently and simultaneously handle a variety of complex matters under deadline pressure.
• Team-oriented, with proven ability to form strong working relationships and work cross-functionally to drive results.
• Strategic, creative, practical and open-minded thinking with excellent business judgment and a focus on business outcomes.
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and ability to address conflict and difficult issues in a professional, assertive and effective manner.
• Strong sense of humor, high personal standards of excellence, and sound judgment.

Key Responsibilities

Accountable for the performance and results of cross functional groups within a major region or business units to integrate products into a coherent portfolio of products focused on the market. Manages portfolio like a “product” (business plan, positioning, buying process, market requirements, and marketing plan)

Has "guru" understanding to analyze market data and identifytrends/opportunities,develop strategic direction from market information, and create compelling market analysis presentations and recommendations

Directs and controls the activities of more than one functional area and selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function

Maps the needs within one or more broad functional markets and analyzes abstract market segmentations. Determines which segments to actively pursue

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates broad and comprehensive understanding of different systems, theories and practices as well as the changing business environment

Business Expertise

• Applies in-depth knowledge of own segment/function, business and commercial expertise to differentiate itself from the competition

Leadership

• Leads a business unit, department or sub-function generally through multiple levels of managers of diverse activities; develops and executes business unit, department or sub-functional strategy to achieve key business objectives

Problem Solving

• Evaluates key business challenges; directs the development of new or innovative solutions

Impact

• Guided by company strategy and business objectives, impacts results of segment/function

Interpersonal Skills

• Influences and negotiates at the top executive levels, with great latitude on outcomes; presents and defends complicated or delicate issues

1. Experience in backend semiconductor process and equipment

2. Experience in backend and packaging photo module

3. Hands-on experience bringing new product in new markets - driving penetration and adoption strategy

What We Offer

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• Providing business and legal advice to business stakeholders.

• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating broad range of IP, commercial, and complex transactions, including joint development and university research agreements, to achieve desired business objectives.

• Counseling business/sales team and other stakeholders regarding contract provisions and implications and assessing and mitigating legal/business risks (e.g., indemnifications, liability, etc.).

• Partnering effectively with other groups in the Law and Compliance Organization to deliver effective and comprehensive legal support to business stakeholders.

• Actively participating in process and technology projects designed to improve service and efficiency within the Law and Compliance Organization.

Basic Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate (JD) from an accredited and recognized law school.

• 10+ years of legal experience with a focus on IP, commercial, and complex transactions.

• Deep understanding of contract terms relating to creation and allocation of technology and IP rights.

• Excellent negotiation skills including first-hand experience leading negotiations.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills necessary to support a global business.

• Ability to spot compliance and regulatory implications of new businesses.

• Ability to work collaboratively across organizational boundaries and with a diverse group of colleagues in multiple countries.

• Ability to travel occasionally.

• Licensed to practice law in California.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Attributes:

• Work experience in both law firm and in-house corporate legal departments.

• Degree in engineering or hard sciences, and/or experience in the engineering or semiconductor industry.

• Experience with intellectual property litigation, invalidity proceedings, and settlements.

• Experience with contract lifecycle management systems.

• Interest in technology and AI implementation and adoption in the workplace.

• Understand how to translate business needs into contract language and creatively resolve business issues.

• Passionate, proactive, highly motivated self-starter.

• Excellent organizational skills, including attention to detail and ability to create specific action plans based on general guidance and deliver results.

• Ability to see the big picture and identify and design-out problems from the outset; continuous improvement mindset.

What We Offer

We are looking for a Sr Photonics Engineer with a focus on collaborating with the industry’s design and foundry partners, and internal design stake owners to establish advanced photonics technology capabilities for next generation optical interconnect. This individual should be interested in supporting and leading programs devoted to the design, development, and applications of Si photonics technology for photonics interconnect in application of hyperscale and AI computing. This person will apply strong understanding of photonics principles and knowledge on integrating devices into a PIC considering system requirements that include both to meet application performance and also to enable practically manufacturable optical module production.

Responsibilities

• Expert level understanding of advanced Si photonics technology, devices such as laser, to explore innovation of new optical devices
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary design teams to ensure the PIC design is well considered and validated to integrate with other critical components, in optical mechanical and module fabrication processes, in hardware circuit and controls etc..
• Bring up new photonics features in custom opto-electronic hardware
• Perform tests, improve test procedures and analyze data to enable improvements in device performance and product yield
• Work closely with teams developing laser, package, photonic, and electronic circuits to ensure product success
• Work with system architecture to define photonics interconnect need for hyperscale, AI computing, and network switching / routing system.

Qualifications

• PhD degree in Engineering, Physics, Photonics or related technical field
• 5-10 years of industry experience in designing or managing optoelectronics component design and development
• At least 3 years of industry experience with Si photonics
• Experienced in leading the development of Si photonics PIC solutions
• Expertise with photonic design tools, such as Lumerical, Tidy3D, COMSOL, RSoft.
• Need to have hands on experience on using cadence virtuoso. Should have done tape out with the like of Global Foundry, Tower Jazz or other silicon photonics fab.
• Strong knowledge on high speed optoelectronics device design
• Good knowledge on CMOS semiconductor process
• Good knowledge on semiconductor wafer backend and package ecosystem
• Good knowledge on EDA or EPDA tools for PIC design, simulation and tape out process.

Key Responsibilities

Directs the development of market requirements for more than one broad functional area for specific products or product lines including product strategy definition, requirement analysis, technology product roadmaps and pricing.

Directs the development of more than one broad functional area business plan, assesses market penetration and product positioning to drive competitive advantage, revenue and market share.

Directs the competitive analysis of specific products or product lines. Monitors market research, competitive activity and identifies/evaluates customer needs; assess competitive advantages and recommends techniques and product enhancements to increase market penetration.

Drives and executes an effective interface with engineering, manufacturing and sales to develop new products and enhance existing products as well as communicate critical market needs and time requirements

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates broad and comprehensive understanding of different systems, theories and practices as well as the changing business environment

Business Expertise

• Applies in-depth knowledge of own segment/function, business and commercial expertise to differentiate itself from the competition

Leadership

• Leads a business unit, department or sub-function generally through multiple levels of managers of diverse activities; develops and executes business unit, department or sub-functional strategy to achieve key business objectives

Problem Solving

• Evaluates key business challenges; directs the development of new or innovative solutions

Impact

• Guided by company strategy and business objectives, impacts results of segment/function

Interpersonal Skills

• Influences and negotiates at the top executive levels, with great latitude on outcomes; presents and defends complicated or delicate issues

Inspection knowledge for Advanced packaging and Specialties (ICAPS) market.

What We Offer

This position is in our Engineered Optics group.

Key Responsibilities

• Optical design and modeling of nano/micro photonic structures
• New optical metrology development for display related application
• Setup customized optical inspection tool

Functional Knowledge

• 2-3 years of industrial experience on optical design and metrology for Master
• Experience on optical mechanics
• Familiar with optical design software such as Zemax, Lighttools, etc.
• Expertise on free space optics setup, optical display, microscopy
• Proficient on Python/Matlab for image analysis, hardware control

Business Expertise

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

Leadership

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements

Problem Solving

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information

Impact

• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus

• Drive innovative techniques to characterize hardware, define methods and new technologies and apply them to characterize hardware, and/or perform hardware characterization on significantly complex systems for a range of programs, within safety guidelines.

• Design, collect data, analyze and compile reports on significantly complex process engineering experiments for a range of products, within safety guidelines

• Design and implement new technology, products and analytical instrumentation

• Train engineers, define and implement new methodologies, define and apply new technologies, and/or troubleshoot and resolve significantly complex process engineering issues/problems for a range of products

• Develop, plan and execute process engineering projects for a range of products

• Interact with key customers to resolve significantly complex process engineering issues for a range of products to address our customers High Value Problems (HVP)

• Generate internal and external documentation for products, presentations, technical reports for integrated products and generate process engineering specifications for integrated products

• Define and validate film measurement techniques. Train engineers on the techniques and guide them in the interpretation of the data

• This technical staff position leads and/or develops and executes exceptionally complex technology and engineering projects and leads research and development of new technologies as appropriate. Works on critical complex issues that impact longer term product development and business success measured by one or more of the following: incremental revenue growth, market share increases, key customer penetrations, time to market improvement and commercial value of the work.

• Within safety guidelines design, perform, collect data, analyze and compile reports on unusually complex engineering experiments and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.

• Develop innovative solutions as part of proven track record of significant technology contributions. Recognized internally (across Business Units) as one of the limited number of technical experts in their field of expertise

• Conceive and implement new technology, normally named as primary inventor on numerous critical patents and recognized through awards and/or published papers within the last five years.

• Leads and collaborates to contribute to the development of new principles and concepts. Guides less experienced engineers in utilizing techniques to define methods and new technologies and apply them on unusually complex systems. Involved in judging the approach and verifying the validity of technical strategies.

• Leads and collaborates to contribute to the development of new principles and concepts. Guides less experienced engineers in utilizing techniques to define methods and new technologies and apply them on unusually complex systems. .

• Regarded as the technical expert in the PVD area (>10yr of hands-on experience in developing new PVD products, new films).
• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

• Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements

• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution

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

• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines

• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

New technology development for PVD