Test Engineer II

Salary

$78,500.00 - $108,000.00

Location: Austin,TX

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

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, debug and document test equipment to support Manufacturing.
• Uses knowledge of signal processing / DAQ systems, common industrial communication protocols, industrial components specs, PID Controls, GUI creation and CAD drafting to complete full hardware and software design of test equipment.
• Interface with manufacturing engineering customers to assist in defining of test parameters, test specifications and test methodologies.
• Installs programs on and configures various types of servers and PCs within the test fixture system
• Programming knowledge of common languages such as C, C++, and Python
• Uses basic engineering and DFx principles to estimate and reduce test fixture development costs and improve delivered fixture quality.
• Documents and tracks deployment issues to closure and initiates appropriate engineering change request as required.
• Provide test fixture sustaining support for deployed fixtures to ensure minimal down time and customer impact. Coordinates and performs test fixture PM and Calibration activities as scheduled.
• Gathers operational and test data and evaluates results in order to take corrective / continuous improvement actions.
• 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

Travel

• Up to 20% travel requirement to supplier sites and other Applied sites
• Additional Information
• Time Type: Full time
• Employee Type: Assignee / Regular
• Travel: Yes, 20% of the Time
• Relocation Eligible: Yes

Pay and benefits

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.

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