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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.

What We Offer

Salary:

$152,000.00 - $208,500.00

Location:

Santa Clara,CA

You'll 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 possible-while 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. We're 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.

Core Responsibilities

Inbound Discovery & Platform Thinking

• Act as a systems thinker who identifies value synergies across products, platforms, and teams.
• Lead customer and field discovery to uncover cross‑product pain points, workflow gaps, and integration friction.
• Translate customer needs into platform‑level, automation, software requirements, guardrails, and capability definitions.

Roadmap & Value Definition

• Partner closely with engineering and product teams to:

• Define platform roadmaps

• Articulate the "why" behind priorities

• Ensure solutions scale across use cases and segments

• Help define success metrics (adoption, time‑to‑value, reuse, attach, customer outcomes).

PMM COE (Center of Excellence) Enablement

• Contribute to PMM/PM COE best practices:

• Customer insight frameworks

• Value articulation templates

• Platform narrative consistency

• Enable field, sales, and solution teams with clear platform stories and integration guidance.

Technical & Cross‑Functional Leadership

• Rapidly learn complex technical domains and connect dots across HW, SW, and COE systems.
• Be comfortable challenging assumptions, asking "why," and proposing alternative approaches.
• Influence engineering teams through clarity of vision and customer evidence, not hierarchy. Don't just ask and accept roadmaps as is, think critically, challenge and independently propose ideas that have potential to contribute to pipeline.

Outbound Support (as an Extension of Inbound)

• Support solution narratives, enablement content, and reference architectures rooted in inbound insights.
• Ensure outbound materials reflect real customer workflows, not just feature aggregation.
• Mastery in customer presentation , excellent communication

Success Profile

• Background in robotics, controls, sensors and HW platforms
• Strong technical foundation with customer empathy
• Bias for action and structured thinking
• Ability to zoom in (details) and out (platform strategy)
• Natural collaborator who builds trust with engineering

Business Expertise

• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

Leadership

• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

Problem Solving

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions

Impact

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view

Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Yes, 20% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

No

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 members. In 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 Accommodations_Program@amat.com, or by calling our HR Direct Help Line at 877-612-7547, 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.