About the Role
As a Software Engineer, you will leverage cutting-edge technologies like machine learning and AI to develop novel software solutions addressing high-value customer problems. You will be responsible for designing, prototyping, developing, and debugging software for semiconductor equipment, ensuring quality and functionality. This role involves creating software documentation, troubleshooting issues, and collaborating with internal customers to understand project requirements, contributing expertise in intricate systems and software behavior to maintain Applied's leadership in the semiconductor and display sectors.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve a maintainable relational or structured data model for hierarchical manufacturing data.
- Build and maintain data ingestion and transformation processes.
- Establish reliable technical integrations with manufacturing applications, including understanding source data structures, implementing connectors, handling schema changes, and setting up integrity checks.
- Develop backend services implementing core business logic for manufacturing processes.
- Collaborate with developers to translate requirements into actionable business logic designs.
- Build and maintain APIs or service endpoints for downstream applications.
- Create reusable software components for data access, validation, and transformation.
- Ensure backend components are secure, performant, and scalable.
- Ensure audit trail functionalities for data transformation events.
- Build user-facing applications on a modern manufacturing app platform.
- Integrate applications with backend services, connectors, and data sources.
- Develop custom interface logic or extensions as needed.
- Collaborate with manufacturing users to refine UI/UX and workflow behavior.
- Implement data quality checks such as referential integrity, anomaly detection, and completeness validation.
- Build resilience mechanisms into pipelines and services, including automated retries, fallback strategies, and exception logging.
- Monitor application and pipeline performance, availability, and data freshness.
- Produce QA summaries and reports for Go Live approval.
- Maintain technical documentation and diagrams for data flows, integrations, system logic, and API specifications.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
- Produce operational guides, runbooks, and troubleshooting procedures.
Requirements
- Track record of building and maintaining in-house, multi-user, web-based applications for internal stakeholders.
- Strong programming fundamentals with hands-on experience in at least one general-purpose language (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or equivalent).
- Solid SQL skills and practical experience designing or maintaining relational databases.
- Experience developing APIs or backend services (authentication/authorization, data access patterns, performance).
- Hands-on experience integrating with external systems, databases, or APIs in a production environment.
- Working knowledge of enterprise operational data concepts (e.g., data contracts, lineage, quality checks, scheduling, and monitoring).
- UI/UX fundamentals sufficient to build intuitive, task-oriented user interfaces and iterate quickly with users.
- Good engineering hygiene: testing, Git, CI/CD, and writing clean, modular, well-documented code.
- Ability to break down ambiguous requirements and ship maintainable solutions in iterative increments.
- Comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional environment.
- Clear, succinct communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Organized, detail-oriented, and committed to documentation and maintainability.
- Hands-on approach to concept ideation with short turnaround functional prototypes.
- Growth mindset—willing to learn new tools, platforms, and manufacturing domain concepts.
- Ability to manage time effectively and adapt to changing priorities.
Skills
- Machine learning
- AI
- Software development
- Database design
- Data modeling
- Data ingestion
- Data transformation
- API development
- Backend services
- Frontend development
- UI/UX design
- Testing
- Git
- CI/CD
- Data quality checks
- Resilience mechanisms
- Performance monitoring
- Technical documentation
Location
- Singapore, SGP
Work Type
- Full time
- Assignee / Regular
Benefits
- Supportive work culture
- Opportunities for learning, development, and career growth
- Programs and support for personal and professional growth
- Care for employee wellbeing at work and home
About the Company
- 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.
- Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT.
- Join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
