Senior Algorithms Tech Lead
Applied Materials4 days ago
Reẖovot, IsraelStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own major PROVision measurement or image-processing flows from concept through research, design, development, validation, and customer deployment.
- Provide professional and technical leadership to algorithm developers, including setting direction, maintaining work plans, reviewing code and results, and enforcing experiment hygiene and reproducibility.
- Lead hands-on feasibility studies and compare algorithmic approaches based on precision, accuracy, runtime, and memory.
- Define flow metrics and build evaluation sets and test harnesses for precision, accuracy, tool-to-tool matching, and robustness.
- Drive Python-to-C++ parity, testing, recipe-flow integration, documentation, and field best practices.
- Collaborate with applications, product, field, and customer fab engineers on data collection, gap analysis, integration, and proliferation.
- Evaluate new technologies and published research and translate relevant ideas into algorithm proposals.
Requirements
- M.Sc. or higher in exact sciences; Ph.D. is advantageous.
- At least 4 years of hands-on algorithm development in computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning, with extensive Python coding.
- Strong algorithmic and technical background with a record of taking algorithms from research to production.
- Professional or technical leadership experience, such as guiding engineers, setting technical direction, or owning a major module or project.
- Ability to work independently on complex, open-ended problems with an innovative and broad perspective.
- Strong communication skills and experience working with internal and external customers.
- Experience in semiconductors, metrology, inspection, C++, runtime-constrained or CPU-only algorithms, or multidisciplinary products is advantageous.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employment.
- Location: Rehovot, Israel.
- Supportive learning and development culture with employee health and wellbeing programs.
- Approximately 20% travel required.
- Relocation is not eligible.
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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.