Sr Manager, Software Engineer

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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.

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Overview

Applied Materials is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead a team building intelligent, AI-driven software platforms. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role: you will set technical direction, drive strategic engineering initiatives, and stay close enough to the code and architecture to make sound technical calls. You will own delivery of distributed, data-intensive systems while pioneering agentic GenAI frameworks and LLM-based automation across the engineering organization.

The ideal candidate pairs a strong, classical software engineering foundation with demonstrated, real-world experience building agentic systems. We want a leader who has shipped agentic workflows into production and understands their failure modes.

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What success looks like

Within the first year, you will have stood up a reliable, observable agentic platform the broader engineering organization can build on; established the team''s Agentic Development Lifecycle as a repeatable practice; and delivered at least one strategic initiative with measurable impact on engineering velocity or product capability.

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