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Overview

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are essential to advancing AI and semiconductor technology. As a Field Service Engineer, you will collaborate with customers to install, maintain, and upgrade equipment, ensuring exceptional service and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Senior Field Service Engineers in installing, maintaining, and upgrading customer equipment.
  • Use digital analytics for troubleshooting.
  • Apply basic diagnostic techniques to assess equipment and address technical issues, with guidance from Senior Field Service Engineers.
  • Perform preventative and corrective maintenance on electrical, vacuum, mechanical, plasma, hydraulic, and gas systems.
  • Coordinate and communicate directly with customers.
  • Fulfill additional duties, as assigned.

Requirements

  • Completion of an Associate degree, military technical training, field service experience, or trade certification.
  • 2-7 years of work experience in customer/field service support, or a related technical field.
  • Ability to read and interpret electrical and mechanical schematics.
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving basic technical challenges.
  • Basic mechanical aptitude with pneumatics, hydraulics, electronics, vacuum, or thermodynamics.
  • Familiarity with hand tools and their appropriate usage, including digital multimeters.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills.
  • Basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Possession of a valid driver’s license and the ability to obtain a passport, if travel is required.
  • Able to meet all on-site requirements, including safety, environmental guidelines, and COVID-19 protocols.

Additional Information

  • Located in Dallas-Richardson, TX, and Sherman, TX.
  • Travel required: Yes, 50% of the Time.
  • Relocation Eligible: Yes.
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How this job compares in Richardson, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $37/hr, this posting sits about 31% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $23–$35/hr middle band drawn from 487 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 79% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Richardson, TX

We're tracking 14 other active welding openings in Richardson, TX right now, from 4 different employers. 12 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,424 other active welding openings from 737 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Richardson, or widen the search to Texas.

Applied Materials currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Zachry Group (26), Welding Shop in Houston, TX (25), and Austin Industries (23). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $40/hr, San Angelo at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Service Engineer II/III figures were last recalculated when this page was built.