Technical Product Manager

About Applied Materials

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: $132,000.00 - $181,500.00

Location: Austin, TX, 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.

Role Overview

As a Technical Product Manager at Applied Materials, you will dive deep into groundbreaking technologies—like machine learning and AI—to craft novel software solutions that solve our customers’ high-value problems. You will be responsible for designing, prototyping, developing, and debugging software solutions for semiconductor equipment components and devices to ensure quality and functionality. You'll develop software documentation and test procedures, troubleshoot software problems, and communicate with internal customers to understand project requirements. As part of our team, you'll contribute your expertise in intricate systems, deciphering code, and anticipating software behaviors to ensure Applied remains the leader in the semiconductor and display sectors.

Description

The rapid growth in semiconductor markets across the world presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities in manufacturing, supply chain and quality. New frameworks and approaches are required to ensure competitiveness. To that end, the Operations Product Development team drives technology, business process and strategic innovation supporting Applied Materials Global Operations. We’re looking for a highly technical Product Manager with a strong foundation in software engineering and data-oriented development. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys shaping product strategy and getting deep into technical details—someone who can partner with engineering, understand the architecture, and translate business needs into scalable, efficient solutions. This TPM will work closely with backend engineers, data engineers, and business stakeholders to define and deliver products built primarily in Python, leveraging FastAPI, Polars, and SQLAlchemy. If you’re passionate about leveraging data and software to transform how operations deliver impact, you’ll fit right in.

Responsibilities

• Product: Translate business goals and customer needs into technical product requirements. Collaborate with engineering to design scalable APIs, accurate data pipelines, and reliable backend systems. Evaluate technical trade-offs and influence architecture decisions.
• Technical: Develop systems with agile development methodologies and principles. Participate in planning, design, development, and implementation for multiple initiatives. Understand and augment the system and application architecture as needed. Continuous integration and deployment of code. Write secure, reliable, testable, readable code. Create frontend applications using React. Write and maintain APIs and backend services. Maintain and support existing products and services.

Desired Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Python programming
• 2+ Years of experience in building REST APIs
• Hands-On experience testing, debugging and troubleshooting REST APIs implemented using Python
• Experience in one or more messaging technologies (JMS, RabbitMQ, SQS, or AMQP)
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with React performance testing and performance optimization (React profiler, server-side rendering, code splitting/lazy loading)
• Proficient in SQL Query Development, Relational Database Design
• Understand and apply XML / JSON concepts
• Flexible with strong interpersonal and teamwork skills and positive attitude.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with an ability to interact with Developers and management.
• Comfortable working in real-time with other engineers in remote locations

Preferred (primary) location is in Austin. Secondary location is Santa Clara, CA.

Additional Information

• Time Type: Full time
• Employee Type: Assignee / Regular
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Eligible: Yes

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.

Key skills/competency

Technical Product Manager, Software Engineering, Data-Oriented Development, Product Strategy, Python, FastAPI, Polars, SQLAlchemy, REST APIs, Agile Development.