Senior Research Specialist, AI & ML

About the role

Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology. The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards for technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices.

What you'll do

• In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise
• The work spans both applied and fundamental research
• Identify high-value research problems, formulate them mathematically, develop novel learning methods, build proof-of-concept systems, and conduct rigorous evaluations
• Successful research outcomes will be translated into scalable solutions through collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering and domain teams
• This role is not focused on building conversational assistants or connecting foundation models through predefined workflows

What you need

• 5–10 yrs of experience
• Research
• Machine learning
• LLMs
• Deep learning
• Prototyping
• PyTorch
• PhD

Good to have

• TensorFlow
• Python