Senior Software & AI Engineer
Applied Materials18 hours ago
Reẖovot, IsraelSenior
Responsibilities
- Own project-level architecture for complex, stateful calibration workflows while remaining hands-on.
- Build full-stack services spanning concurrent hardware-control loops and operator-facing user interfaces.
- Research, design, implement, validate, document, and optimize numerical, computer-vision, and real-time image-processing algorithms.
- Apply data-science methods to real measurement data, including experiment design, result analysis, and system-performance measurement.
- Build AI infrastructure for physics-informed SDLC harnesses, agents, tools, context engineering, and evaluation pipelines.
- Develop hardware simulation and monitoring tools for algorithm development and automated testing.
- Collaborate with physicists, Product, Design, and R&D teams to validate workflows and ship solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of R&D experience in algorithms or ML, including end-to-end ownership of meaningful features and projects.
- Deep expertise in concurrency, parallelism, multithreaded dispatchers, failure modes, tradeoffs, and performance under load.
- Strong system-design experience with microservices, distributed systems, APIs, message queues, or event streaming.
- Knowledge of numerical algorithms, optimization, image processing, and hardware-control or instrumentation software.
- Hands-on AI-engineering experience with LLMs and agents, including prompt and context engineering, tool calling, retrieval, and evaluation.
- Experience with end-to-end, regression, and automated testing, code review, CI/CD, virtualization, and Docker.
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Preferred qualifications include an M.Sc., computational physics or applied mathematics experience, image processing, optics, microscopy, signal processing, numerical analysis, semiconductor equipment, performance profiling, and concurrency experience in C++, Java, Kotlin, Go, or Rust.
- A proven record of academic, military, or professional honors, awards, or recognition is a plus.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employment in Rehovot, Israel.
- Supportive culture with learning, development, and career-growth opportunities.
- Health and wellbeing programs and support for employees.
- No travel required.
- Not relocation 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.