Senior R&D Scientist

Position Summary:

The Senior R&D Scientist will join the Advanced Analytics R&D team across Milpitas, California and Singapore. The highly self-motivated individual will play an active hands-on role in algorithm development, work closely with R&D scientists, software developers and application scientists to innovate, prototype, validate, implement and test advanced AI-driven data analysis solutions and algorithms that enhance optical metrology performance.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Interface with application scientists, product management, and marketing team to understand and analyse customers requirements and technology gaps.

• Innovate and develop new concepts, leveraging machine learning and AI techniques to address customer challenges and close identified technology gaps, working both independently and within cross‑functional teams.

• Collect and analyse technical data, conduct literature reviews, propose new methodologies or improvements to existing solutions.

• Conceptualize, design, prototype, and fine-tune algorithms and find the best approach to solve a specific problem.

• Validate, benchmark, and implement advanced algorithms that enhance optical metrology performance.

• Propose and define new features based on RD findings, create clear software requirements and specifications, and collaborate with software engineering teams to drive successful productization.

• Develop and execute test plans to verify algorithm performance, reliability, and readiness for deployment in production environments.

• Play a key role in innovative technology development, deliver solutions that create measurable values for customers and the business.

  Qualifications:

  • Ph. D. or Master's degree in an engineering discipline or physical science.

  • 4+ years experience in machine learning research/engineering or related area.

  • Proven experience with AI research in academic or industrial environment, demonstrate a strong sense of innovation and ability to reframe tranditional problems into well-defined, impactful machine learning / AI projects, develop and build solutions with measurable outcomes.

  • Strong programming skills in Python / MATLAB / R Extensive experience with machine learning libraries such as Scikit-learn Proficiency in at least one deep learning framework such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX Knowledge and hands-on experience with large language model, reinforcement learning, generative AI.

  • Demonstrate track record in building and deploying large scale models for scientific or industrial products.

  • Demonstrate intellectual honesty and a sense of urgency in driving projects to completion.

  • Excellent communication skills, ability to present technical materials both to working-level peers and to senior management internally and externally.

  • Experience in one or more of the following areas is a strong plus: optical simulation, estimation and optimization, signal processing, statistics, and data visualization.

  • Experience in the semiconductor or related manufacturing industry is plus, or demonstration of strong motivation and abilities to acquire metrology domain knowledge on the job.

  • Ability to travel up to 25% is preferred.

  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, iterative development environment or work within a cross-department collaborative setting (R&D scientist, Applications, Software Development, Integration, ...).