Solution Architect

The group you’ll be a part of

The Customer Support Business Group focuses on enabling our customers with premier customer support throughout their lifecycle with Lam. We drive performance, productivity, safety, and quality of customers installed base performance and deliver service and lifecycle solutions for their most critical equipment and processes.

The impact you’ll make

As a Solution Architect at Lam, you will be at the forefront of innovation by designing, developing, and troubleshooting, and debugging software programs. Your role is pivotal in developing software tools that support design, infrastructure, and technology platforms. Your expertise will determine hardware compatibility and influence design, ensuring seamless integration between software and hardware.

In this role, you’ll make an impact across Lam’s entire product portfolio of equipment working within our centralized software engineering team, collaborating with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

The successful candidate will be a technical team leader supporting multiple programs reporting to the Engineering Director. Candidate will work with multiple teams of full time and consultant developers and QA engineers to develop a set of systems utilizing technologies related to mobile device UI, data transfer services, back-end software infrastructure, a reporting and analytics engine, and various parsers. Candidate will own the system design from initial implementation through long-term sustaining ownership, release, and will be responsible for keeping the applications current with periodic releases.

What you’ll do

• Demonstrate, clearly communicate, and present solutions through clear documentation, flowcharts, and well-structured code.
• Drive systems design and development across multiple teams to create and maintain a holistic set of systems
• Demonstrated ability to work & lead in an agile perspective for all SW development & commit to fast release schedule
• Must be able to lead and work effectively in small to medium sized teams (<10 core team individuals)>
• Conduct regular code reviews & provide assurance that all modules fit to proposed architecture & meet rigorous code review standards
• Familiarity with and ability to implement test-driven-development methodologies
• Commitment to long-term sustaining application ownership
• Ability to conduct R&D and PoC’s
• Takes ownership of and ability to delegate assigned tasks with responsibilities.
• Institutes and participates in corrective actions to ensure closure / resolution.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring for more junior engineers.
• May visit customer site to provide support and have ability to travel (total is less than 10%).

Who we’re looking for

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering with 12+ years of experience; or Master’s degree with 8+ years’ experience; or a PhD with 5+ years’ experience; or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Software (OOS), Object Oriented Design (OOD), or Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) implementation and design, including Design Patterns and Finite State Machines.
• >5 years leading system design on multiple development teams
• >8 years’ experience in systems design and development
• 3-5 years of experience in SQL/No-SQL (MongoDB or SQL Server or MySQL)
• Strong communication and presentation skills required.
• Azure DevOps & JIRA experience required
• Knowledge of multithreading, including preemptive thread scheduling.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in scripting is plus (PowerShell or similar)
• Able to provide examples of systems designed/developed

Our commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.