Software Engineer Sys 5

The group you’ll be a part of

In the Global Products Group, we are dedicated to excellence in the design and engineering of Lam's etch and deposition products. We drive innovation to ensure our cutting-edge solutions are helping to solve the biggest challenges in the semiconductor industry.

The impact you’ll make

As a Software Engineer 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.

What you’ll do

• Design and implement sophisticated architectural solutions for integrating LLM technology into business applications
• Develop complex multi-step agentic pipelines around open- and closed-source LLMs.
• Own infrastructure for model integration, routing, and evaluation.
• Build MCP Servers - ensure model governance, versioning, access control, and monitoring for production AI systems.
• Evaluate, prototype, and integrate the latest advancements in AI and agentic systems as they emerge.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including business leaders, engineers, architects, and designers to align AI systems with business objectives.

Who we’re looking for

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of shipping production software, with a strong track record of owning features end-to-end
• Proven experience building AI agents, LLM-driven systems, or autonomous workflows with proper guardrails and evaluation mechanisms.
• Have practical AI systems experience with RAG, evals, monitoring, MCP/tool use, structured outputs, or multi-agent workflows
• Proven experience with LLM orchestration patterns and frameworks (LangGraph, MCP, agent SDKs from major model providers).
• Foundational AI skills, including prompt engineering, model evaluation, agent orchestration, reasoning frameworks, and the ability to apply AI to improve engineering and operational outcomes.
• Familiarity with context management, session state, or memory systems in AI or distributed systems. You’ve thought about what the model sees and why it matters.
• A systems-thinking mindset that connects AI models, data pipelines, and operational workflows end-to-end.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior engineers and product leaders.
• A passion for how AI can unlock potential to help our teams, our customers, and our communities achieve great things.

Preferred qualifications

• Prior semiconductor equipment experience.
• Familiarity with human-in-the-loop workflows, PEFT based fine-tuning, and LLM evaluation techniques.
• Familiarity with AI safety, guardrails, monitoring, and responsible deployment practices
• Proficiency with AI tracing and evaluation tools such as LangSmith to monitor hallucinations, latency, and tokenomics.
• Understanding of reinforcement learning, including RLHF, RLAIF, offline and online RL, safety-aware reward design, and feedback loops.
• Expertise in AI evaluation platforms, synthetic data generation, model-based judges, or red-teaming.
• Experience building and shipping multi-model AI systems in production.
• Experience operating in regulated environments. Solid grasp of security fundamentals - encryption, access controls, audit logging, secrets management.

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.

Salary

CA San Francisco Bay Area Salary Range for this position: $141,000.00 - $307,000.00.

The above salary range for this position is relevant to applicants that reside or work onsite in the California, San Francisco Bay Area only. Salary offers will depend on factors that include the location you work from, your level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience and comparison to other employees already in this role. Actual salary may vary from salary offered due to numerous factors including but not limited to unpaid time off, unpaid leave, company mandated shutdown, and other relevant factors.

Our Perks and Benefits

At Lam, our people make amazing things possible. That’s why we invest in you throughout the phases of your life with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits.