Summary
Chad Flores is a Senior Engineering Manager and former Staff Product Engineer at Lam Research with 11 years of technical experience bridging physics-driven research and high-volume semiconductor product development. He has led cross-disciplinary teams to deliver next-generation conductor etch hardware and software solutions—managing multi-hundred-thousand-dollar programs that improved repeatability and process performance for global memory and logic customers. His background includes PhD-level experimental design and large-scale statistical analysis from work at UC Davis and CERN, where he ran Monte Carlo simulations and handled billions of collision events, skills he now applies to complex equipment diagnostics and escalation resolution. Known for translating deep physics intuition into pragmatic engineering, he excels at aligning SW, EE, and ME stakeholders to reduce downtime and advance manufacturing yield.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of California, Davis
Associate of Science - AS, Natural Sciences, Associate of Science - AS, Natural Sciences at Sierra College