
Algorithm Developer III
Applied Materials1 day ago
Base Salary
$161k - $221k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design scalable pipelines to collect, process, and analyze high-volume sensor data.
- Model physical relationships governing complex manufacturing processes.
- Develop predictive and control algorithms using physics-based and machine learning methods.
- Create ML surrogates and reduced-order models based on rigorous physics simulations.
- Build maintainable software modules for manufacturing tools, control systems, dashboards, and intelligent automation applications.
- Analyze sensor and metrology data and iteratively improve simulation and model accuracy and performance.
- Collaborate with physics, engineering, software, and data science teams to deploy solutions.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline, or a master's degree in one of those fields plus at least 2 years of relevant industry or research experience.
- Deep expertise in theoretical physics, applied mathematics, computational science, or simulation-driven engineering.
- Working knowledge of machine learning, data science, and statistical modeling.
- Strong software engineering skills and the ability to produce clean, scalable, production-ready code.
- Experience with computational methods, computer-aided engineering, engineering simulation, physical modeling, or complex systems analysis is preferred.
- Experience applying machine learning to scientific, engineering, or industrial problems is preferred.
- Interest or experience in sensors, instrumentation, hardware systems, robotics, or software connected to physical-world applications is preferred.
- Public GitHub repositories, open-source contributions, peer-reviewed publications, or equivalent technical work demonstrating code quality are preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employee position.
- Comprehensive benefits package supporting employee health and wellbeing.
- 10% travel required.
- Relocation eligible.
- Additional bonus and stock award programs may be available, as applicable.
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About Applied Materials
Applied Materials builds semiconductor and display manufacturing equipment and related materials engineering technologies used by chip and flat-panel makers. It sells capital tools, process technology, and lifecycle services and software to support high-volume wafer fabrication and display production worldwide. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker AMAT.