What's in it for you?
When you join our team at Applied Materials, you become part of a strong and stable company that puts people first. We care about your personal and professional growth and offer many opportunities for career development within the company.
You will have the opportunity to shape both the technology and the teams behind a next-generation software platform from its early stages, contributing to a strategic product that plays a key role in the semiconductor industry.
You will work alongside highly skilled engineers, architects, and domain experts in a collaborative environment that encourages ownership, innovation, and continuous learning. Our team embraces AI-assisted development as a standard engineering practice, and you will help shape how modern, AI-driven development methodologies are applied across the teams.
Our Group
We are responsible for developing new capabilities for scanning electron microscope (SEM) tool for semiconductor production manufacturing.
Working in Agile end2end Application teams. Closely with Algorithm, Image Processing, and other RnD teams.
What you'll be doing
Own the Agile/Scrum activities of the team, including Jira management, backlog and task prioritization, epics, daily meetings, dependencies, and sprint planning.
Lead quarterly and sprint-level planning, coordinate integrations and cross-functional interfaces, and own project timelines and development quality.
Provide strong technical leadership - understand the code and product in depth, support code design, guide technical decisions, and mentor the team.
Stay hands-on: design and develop software for complex product features, and participate in code reviews and design discussions with architects and engineers.
Lead and develop team members by matching responsibilities to their capabilities, providing challenges, coaching their professional growth, and supporting their day-to-day work.
Drive quality and continuous improvement across the development lifecycle, including testing, automation, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development practices.
What should you have?
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent degree.
2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, a Team Lead or a comparable leadership experience.
7+ years of experience in backend/server-side software development, with strong hands-on software engineering capabilities.
Strong hands-on experience in Java or other object-oriented programming languages and software design principles.
Solid understanding of modern software development practices, including source control, code reviews, testing strategies, CI/CD, and release workflows.
Experienced in AI-first development practices, with AI-powered tools and agents serving as a primary part of the software engineering workflow.
Strong ownership, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage priorities and dependencies across multiple teams.
Advantages
Cloud experience - strong advantage.
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized environments.
Experience with distributed systems or event-driven architectures (e.g., Temporal, Redis, RabbitMQ, Apache Flink).
Experience leading multidisciplinary projects involving software, algorithms, automation, QA, and product teams.
Knowledge of the semiconductors industry.
Who we are?
Applied Materials Israel is home to the Process Diagnostics and Control (PDC) business unit. Based in Rehovot, we develop, manufacture, and market cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision-based metrology and inspection products that are essential elements in wafer fabrication.
By playing a significant role in enabling the production of the next generation of microchips, our expertise enables our customers to transform possibilities into reality and drive the future of semiconductor innovation.
Additional Information
Time Type
Full time
Employee Type
Assignee / Regular
Travel
Yes, 10% of the Time
Relocation Eligible
No
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.
