Principal Machine Learning Engineer – Wafer Fabrication
Coherent Corp.10 hours ago
Fremont, CA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and validate models for yield improvement, screening accuracy, and process optimization.
- Apply model selection, hyperparameter tuning, statistical analysis, and experimental design.
- Deploy AI/ML in manufacturing systems using edge AI, API serving, containerization, and cloud-based training and inference.
- Integrate AI/ML pipelines with existing production workflows and MES systems.
- Develop reusable data pipelines, analytical tools, dashboards, and model-monitoring methods.
- Support process characterization, design of experiments, and continuous-improvement activities.
- Establish and share ML best practices across the site and other company sites.
- Communicate results and collaborate with photonics designers and process, reliability, manufacturing, and software engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience with AI/ML, preferably including machine learning and statistical analytical techniques.
- At least 3 years of experience in a production environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related field, with specialization in Data Science, AI/ML, or Statistics.
- Expertise with deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
- Expertise with CNNs, RNNs, GANs, Random Forests, and Gradient Boosting.
- Experience with clustering, feature engineering, dimensionality reduction, model deployment, containerization, and container orchestration.
- Proficiency with SQL and modern data-processing or data-platform technologies.
- Familiarity with regression, classification, anomaly detection, model evaluation, and experimental design.
- Python and common data-science and machine-learning libraries are a plus.
- Experience with CUDA, LibTorch, ONNX Runtime, C++, and data structures is a strong plus.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or Databricks for cloud-based ML training and inference is a plus.
- Familiarity with machine vision, defect detection, OCR, Hadoop, and Spark is a plus.
- Manufacturing, wafer fabrication, photonics, or telecommunications experience is a plus.
- A master's degree is preferred.
Benefits
- The role is on-site for the first three months, with the possibility of converting to hybrid afterward.
- Weekly morning hours and occasional evening and weekend hours are required.
- Travel to other Coherent sites in the Bay Area and the United States may be possible.
- A sit-stand desk option is available.
- Employees must follow applicable EHS, quality, and environmental procedures and standards.
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About Coherent Corp.
Coherent Corp. builds lasers, optics, and compound semiconductor components and systems for OEMs in the industrial, communications, electronics, and instrumentation markets. Its portfolio spans laser machines, optical transceivers, and optoelectronic devices sold through direct sales and global channel partners. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, the company adopted the Coherent name after acquiring Coherent, Inc. in 2022 and is publicly traded on Nasdaq (COHR).