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Applied Materials

Builds equipment for chip and display factories

Test Engineer 4

Full-Time
$116k - $159.5k+ Bonus + Stock award
Mid
Billerica, MA, USA
In Person
Manufacturing & Process EngineeringManufacturing Engineering
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Demonstrate depth and/or breadth of expertise in a specialized discipline or field.
  • Interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services.
  • Lead others in solving complex problems; use sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions.
  • Communicate difficult concepts and negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view.
Responsibilities
  • Provide sustaining support for deployed test fixtures to minimize downtime and customer impact.
  • Coordinate and perform test fixture preventive maintenance and calibration activities as scheduled, and follow up on out-of-tolerance issues as required.
  • Lead the test fixture equipment maintenance program, coordinate efforts, track metrics, report performance, and initiate continuous improvement opportunities based on historical data.
  • Coordinate deployment of new test fixtures with other test engineers and business-unit customers; drive new test fixture designs and implement them as needed.
  • Manage multiple development projects simultaneously and deliver to predetermined project requirements.
  • Interact with customers on deliverables, report project and program performance, document and track deployment issues to closure, and initiate engineering change requests as required.
  • Drive applicable manufacturing engineering ePLC deliverables.
  • Estimate test fixture manufacturing costs, determine scheduling requirements, and make recommendations for new fixture designs.
  • Lead teams across functional groups in using Design for Excellence principles to reduce costs and improve delivered quality.
  • Lead development of statements of work for assigned test fixtures and/or test programs, coordinate stakeholders to align on test specifications and project requirements, and assist with coordinating or executing test fixture sourcing activities as needed.
  • Drive test mapping and gap analysis exercises as requested.
  • Participate in preparing concept and feasibility studies; gather operational test data, evaluate results, and manage corrective actions.
  • Evaluate work methods, procedures, and policies; identify, document, and implement business processes and efficiency improvement tools.
  • Mentor and train lower-level engineers, identify training needs, update training curricula, and develop training programs.
  • Coordinate sourcing activities with external suppliers as required, ensure statement-of-work alignment with suppliers, and drive projects to closure in line with customer expectations.
  • Lead Process Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis when working with New Product Development.

About the company

Applied Materials designs and builds precision machines that chipmakers and display manufacturers use to form, shape and inspect thin layers of material. Its platforms handle steps such as depositing films and removing unwanted material, helping chipmakers create transistors and wiring at atomic scale. Customers include makers of logic chips and memory, as well as manufacturers of advanced displays. The company earns money from equipment sales, replacement parts and services, and factory software that schedules production and monitors manufacturing processes. Applied Materials was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

1967

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What believers are saying

  • Installed equipment brings repeat business: Applied Global Services sells long-term service agreements, replacement parts and equipment upgrades.
  • Sales are expanding: Applied's August 2026 report showed fiscal Q3 revenue of $9.12 billion, up 25% yearly.
  • Employees join profitable operations: Applied reported $3.08 billion of operating profit for fiscal Q3 in August 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Singapore manufacturing hires face late shifts: Applied's live engineering posting specifies 4 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. schedules.
  • Export compliance has real costs: Applied and its Korea subsidiary settled a $252 million penalty in February 2026.
  • Sales depend on China access: Applied's December 2025 filing attributed 30% of fiscal 2025 revenue to customers there.

What makes Applied Materials unique

  • Applied combines manufacturing steps under vacuum: its Endura copper platform integrates seven processes to protect delicate material interfaces.
  • Factory software reaches beyond chips: Applied SmartFactory serves battery and pharmaceutical manufacturers alongside semiconductor plants.
  • Research targets future chip generations: Applied's EPIC partners work on technology three to four generations ahead of production.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Relocation Assistance

Performance Bonus

Stock Options

Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

-1%
Yahoo Finance
Oct 13th, 2026
Applied Materials targets 54% gross margin and $12B services revenue by 2030 on AI demand

Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) expects to gain more than two percentage points of wafer-fab-equipment market share by 2030, driven by demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The company outlined its strategy at the SEMICON West technology breakfast. Chief executive officer Gary Dickerson said AI spending is concentrating in leading-edge logic, DRAM memory and advanced packaging, which should make up about 75% of incremental industry growth. For 2030, Applied targets a 54% non-GAAP gross margin, a 40% operating margin and more than $12 billion in services revenue. It expects more than $1 billion in high-bandwidth-memory packaging revenue this year. The company plans to more than double its laboratory and manufacturing capacity, and return 80% to 100% of free cash flow to shareholders.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 12th, 2026
Applied Materials stock prices in 36.3% sales growth for fiscal 2027

Applied Materials stock trades at 39.5 times adjusted earnings for the past twelve months, despite sales growth of just 7.8% over the period. The price leans on forecasts that sales will rise 36.3% between fiscal 2026 and fiscal 2027, with profit growing 40.0%. Net margin is expected to widen from 27% in fiscal 2025 to 31% in fiscal 2027. On those estimates, the stock costs 38.7 times fiscal 2026 profit and 27.7 times fiscal 2027 profit. Sales growth reached 24.8% in the most recent quarter, up from declines earlier in the year. Management said clean room space at customers' factories will limit shipments in 2027, and costs could squeeze margins. The company presents to investors on October 13, 2026, at SEMICON West.

Fox Business
Oct 12th, 2026
Applied Materials CEO calls AI economy's biggest inflection point as $5B EPIC Center opens

Applied Materials chief executive officer Gary Dickerson called AI the biggest economic "inflection" point of our lifetime. He spoke about the company's $5 billion EPIC Center in Silicon Valley, its research into next-generation chips, and surging demand for AI chips. Dickerson made the remarks on "The Claman Countdown.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 12th, 2026
Applied Materials opens $5B EPIC Center, the world's largest chip equipment R&D facility

Applied Materials unveiled its Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center in Sunnyvale, California, on October 12, 2026. The $5 billion facility is billed as the world's largest dedicated to collaborative semiconductor process technology and equipment R&D. Chipmakers, systems companies, equipment partners and universities will work alongside Applied's engineers. Founding partners are TSMC, Intel, Samsung Electronics, Micron and SK hynix. Broadcom, Advantest, SCREEN, KIOXIA and Besi join as innovation partners, along with five research universities. The 600,000-square-foot building holds nearly four acres of cleanroom space. It aims to remove the handoffs between materials research, equipment development and pilot production, speeding new chip technologies to volume manufacturing for the AI era. Applied expects capital spending to scale to about $5 billion as customer projects begin.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 12th, 2026
SK Hynix beats Applied Materials for 2026: 7x forward P/E and 46.8% revenue growth

Applied Materials and SK Hynix both sit at the heart of the AI chip boom, but a comparison of the two favours the memory maker for 2026. SK Hynix leads on growth, valuation and recent profitability. In fiscal 2025, SK Hynix revenue rose about 46.8% to nearly $72.5 billion, with net income near $32.1 billion. Applied Materials posted revenue of nearly $28.4 billion, up about 4.4%, and net income of about $7.0 billion. SK Hynix trades at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 7x, against 41x for Applied Materials. Its operating margin has topped 50% in recent quarters. Risks differ. Applied Materials faces export controls and settled a $252 million penalty over unauthorised exports. SK Hynix faces volatile memory prices and rivals Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology.