Lam Research - Where Successful People Want To Work

Together we move the Atoms that move the World

Imagine working on the front lines of innovation! As one of the semiconductor industry's leading suppliers of wafer fabrication equipment and services, our technology depends on finding and hiring the best and the brightest employees. We know that our dynamic, global team of exceptional employees is essential to our continued growth.

We are a company comprised of people who work hard, deliver outstanding results and maintain a sense of humor during even the most challenging times. This is truly a rare opportunity. Lam Research is a market leader where our core values are not just words on the back of your badge. Given the criticality of this role to Lam Research's success, this philosophy starts with you.

Essential Functions and Duties

“As a trusted, collaborative partner to the world’s leading semiconductor companies, Lam Research is a fundamental enabler of the silicon roadmap. Today, nearly every advanced chip is built using Lam technology.

Our innovative wafer fabrication equipment and services allow chipmakers to build smaller, faster, and better performing electronic devices. We combine superior systems engineering, technology leadership, a strong values-based culture, and unwavering commitment to customer success to accelerate innovation, enabling our customers to shape the future.”

Within this framework, our IP Group is responsible for all aspects of Lam’s Intellectual Property. We are looking to fill an IP counsel position.

This position involves:
 

• Implementing Lam’s IP strategy, program, and policies in a cross-functional team environment for Lam’s equipment and process technologies.  You will be working with chemistry, physics, RF, software, mechanical, and electrical engineering technologies.
• Reporting to a Director of Intellectual Property.
• Collaborating across the broader Legal team to address IP issues in transactions, agreements and disputes.
• Managing Lam’s patent portfolios across one or more business organizations in the US and internationally.
• Occasional adversarial – litigation, oppositions, freedom to operate etc. – work including risk assessments and IP evaluation.

Essential Skills: You must...

• Be a registered patent attorney, and one who wants to grow into a multi-faceted IP counsellor.
• Have excellent interpersonal English-language communication skills: written, oral and presentation and be able to distill and communicate the essence of complex IP matters.
• Have excellent legal and analytical skills coupled with a good business sense. A strong technical background is essential.
• Be hard-working, dedicated, and motivated with a strong team-oriented approach. We are too close a team to accommodate ‘lone wolves.’
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with short deadlines. Able to handle pressure.
• Preferably have experience supporting cross-functional teams and supporting/developing IP programs in a corporate environment.
• Be intellectually curious, creative, innovative, accessible and approachable.
• Not have ‘sharp elbows!’ We are a co-operative group and will not tolerate people who aren’t team players. There are no exceptions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience, J.D. or equivalent, U.S. Patent Bar and depending on hiring location California or Oregon bar or admission to the bar in another US state with ability to join the Oregon Bar or be registered as in-house counsel in California.
• Background or experience in the semiconductor equipment and/or semiconductor industry with an ability to understand advanced semiconductor fabrication technologies including etch, deposition, and RF.
• B.S. in a semiconductor related discipline: Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or Chemistry preferred.

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Our Commitment

Our work is everywhere you look – even if you can’t actually see it. Lam Research goes deeper than software or chips to the heart of the process that enables chip creation. So if you want to help power the components that empower everything, join us.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.