AGS Verity Application Instructor (NPI)

About the role

Applied Materials is hiring an AGS Verity Application Instructor in Rehovot, Israel. This is a New Product Introduction (NPI) position combining technical instructor and technical expert roles on existing and new products. It sits inside the business unit in SCLA, where the person learns the new PLC/NPI products (new chambers, mainframes and tools), gains experience on startup and sustaining production tasks, and delivers initial classroom and hands-on training. After the tool moves to volume production, the volume instructor takes over training ownership.

Key responsibilities

• Time split roughly: 45% learning the new tool and building course materials, 35% delivering training or coordinating factory on-the-job training, 20% other activities.
• Assess training needs, maintain product technical knowledge, update courses and share new information with training and business unit staff.
• Manage several new tools at once, direct project teams and represent AGS TS at divisional meetings, conferences and industry task forces.
• Research and test systems, develop hardware training student guides using PowerPoint and Word, and train others in Instructional System Design.
• Ensure training systems are safe, follow preventive maintenance and troubleshooting, and present training in-house and at customer sites, including off-shift and weekend sessions.
• Mentor less senior instructors, coach them on class delivery, technical development and certification, and resolve customer satisfaction issues.
• Support marketing in building customer relationships and sell AGS TS products, while keeping technical knowledge through workshops and publications.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, education or training, plus 4 years of professional semiconductor equipment experience; alternatively 6 years of such experience if no degree.
• Experience with VeritySEM or equivalent CD-SEM.
• Desirable: 2 years of formal or informal education/training experience, and preferred: nationally recognized Instructional Design certification or 2 years of curriculum development experience.
• Domestic and international travel up to 40%; relocation eligible.

Required skills

• Semiconductor equipment: operations, preventive and corrective maintenance, alignments, calibrations and system-level troubleshooting of analog/digital electronics.
• Microsoft Office and MS Windows applications; knowledge of computer networking a plus.
• Equipment use: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, voltmeters, soldering irons, hand and power tools, PCs.
• Excellent communication, presentation and problem-solving skills, and ability to work independently.