Key Responsibilities
Job Description
Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise. Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices. Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations. May lead functional teams or projects.
Associate Research Analyst B4
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree with strong financial modeling experience
2-4 year experience in Equity Research or Management Consulting
Strong verbal and written communication skills to communicate cross-functionally with all levels of management
Preferred Qualifications:
MBA and / or CFA Level 2 passed
Expert level Excel modeling and data analytics skills
Semiconductor and Semiconductor Capital Equipment industry knowledge
Responsibilities:
Create and maintain detailed financial models for semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment companies, including product level and device level financial forecasts
Distill and communicate insights from data driven analyses, including using charts and tables to effectively illustrate key takeaways
Build strong relationships across the company and industry to stay abreast of the competitive landscape of the semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment industry
Assist in the identification of secular trends in the broader technology sector and development of strategies to capture key inflections
Santa Clara, CA
Applied Materials, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. This segment also offers various technologies, including epitaxy, ion implantation, oxidation and nitridation, rapid thermal processing, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, electrochemical deposition, atomic layer deposition, etching, and selective removal, as well as metrology and inspection tools.
The Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity comprising spares, upgrades, services, remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices, as well as equipment for flexible substrates.
The company serves manufacturers of semiconductor wafers and chips, liquid crystal and organic light-emitting diode displays, and other electronic devices. It operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Applied Materials, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.