Software Engineer Apps, Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 17, 2026. Lam Research scores C on the Alion truth index.
The group you’ll be a part of
The Global Finance Group drives financial strategies based on expert understanding of Lam's breakthrough technologies, the semiconductor market, and the global business environment. They manage our company's financials and relationships with our investor community to ensure we have the strong financial foundation to fuel innovation and growth.
The impact you’ll make
As a Software Application Engineer at Lam, you’ll be at the forefront of driving innovation and adoption of our software products. You’ll support fast product evolution through agile processes by analyzing, designing, programming, testing, debugging, and enhancing software applications. With your expertise and initiative, you’ll turn ideas into great products that support advancements in Lam’s semiconductor technology.
In this role, you will have a significant impact on the innovation and efficiency of Lam's products and services. By developing enterprise grade software applications, you will enable data-driven decision making, optimize workflows, enhance user experience, and improve quality and performance of Lam's hardware and processes.
What you’ll do
- Design, develop, and maintain [insert software application(s) or focus area].
- Drive adoption of internal software products across Lam.
- Collaborate with application teams and process engineers in planning, data collection, modeling, data analysis, and report results to stakeholders.
- Partner cross-functionally to understand Product roadmaps, process flow, inflection points, software requirements, and business use cases.
- Provide requirements and user stories to product managers and developers to ensure required capabilities are available for applications.
- Acts as single point of contact accountable for applications and key projects.
- Works with stakeholders to determine appropriate multi-product workflows or integration including database connections to transform data between the application and the database.
- Develop clean, scalable, maintainable, and testable application code.
- Implement unit, integration, and end-to-end testing to enhance functionality of software applications.
Who we’re looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5+ years of experience; or Master’s degree with 3+ years; or a PhD with no previous professional experience; or equivalent work experience.
- Experience in [insert specifics e.g., front-end, back-end, data analysis].
Preferred qualifications
- Proficient in python, [insert other specific programming language], or similar programming languages.
- Familiarity with software product development methodologies.
- Effective organizational skills to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, adjust to shifting priorities, and meet business needs.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to coordinate and communicate with diverse, cross-functional, and matrixed internal and external partners.
- Prior semiconductor experience is preferred.
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.