Technical Consultant – Process Quality Products

**Who We Are** 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: $128,000.00 - $176,000.00 Location: Home / Mobile,AZ-001 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](https://hrportal.ehr.com/applied/). **Position Overview** We are looking for an experienced and technically adept Technical Consultant to join our Process Quality team. In this role, you will lead presales technical engagements for our process quality offerings — including AI-enabled capabilities — building and delivering demos, presales collateral, and technical consultations that showcase the value of our Fault Detection (FD), Run-to-Run (R2R), and Statistical Process Control (SPC) solutions. Your deep semiconductor fab process quality expertise, combined with working knowledge of ML/AI applications, will play a key role in addressing client needs, differentiating our product and AI offerings, and driving successful customer adoption. **Travel Requirement:** up to 25% **Key Responsibilities** **Customer Engagement** - Collaborate with sales teams to identify customer needs, conduct requirements analysis, and design process quality solutions that meet business objectives. - Lead and standardize product demonstrations and proof-of-concept (PoC) activities for FD, R2R, SPC, and AI-enabled process quality applications. - Customize demos to highlight the unique value of our process quality solutions and AI/ML-based quality capabilities (e.g., anomaly detection, virtual metrology models). - Develop technical proposals, solution configurations, and ROI/value narratives to align offerings with customer-specific needs. **Technical Consultation and AI/ML Enablement** - Provide in-depth technical consultation and training materials on process quality product features, functionality, and integration capabilities. - Maintain working knowledge of ML/AI techniques applied to process quality, sufficient to explain and position these capabilities with both technical and business stakeholders. - Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate capabilities and use cases into customer-facing messaging. **Feedback and Product Improvement** - Work closely with product development and engineering teams to design tailored FD/R2R/SPC and AI-enabled solutions that address customer requirements. - Gather feedback from regional presales and customers to inform continuous product and AI based quality capabilities improvements. - Act as the voice of the customer, communicating needs and challenges to the product development team. **Business Process** - Maintain up-to-date presales collateral, demo assets, and training materials for the worldwide presales team. - Centralize documentation throughout the presales process, from opportunity identification through customer commitment. **Qualifications** **Education** - Bache…