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Applied AI R&D Manager

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Industrial Estate, Mambalam Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Mid level
Industrial Estate, Mambalam Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Mid level
The Applied AI R&D Manager will lead a team focused on developing AI-enabled semiconductor inspection equipment, collaborating with various centers of excellence and driving innovation through applied R&D efforts. The role includes managing product roadmaps and enhancing the technical IP portfolio via patent filings.
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Company Overview

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group/Division

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The LS-SWIFT Division of KLA’s Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to deliver market-leading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors. Customers from the foundry, logic, memory, automotive, MEMS, advanced packaging and other markets rely upon high-sample wafer inspection information generated by LS-SWIFT products. LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable cost-effective patterned wafer defect detection for the industry’s most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leading-edge foundry, logic, DRAM, and NAND fabs. SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver all-wafer-surface (frontside, backside, and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC, MEMS, and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs. LS-SWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US, Singapore, India and Germany, and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia, Europe and North America.

Job Description

Job Description

Are you a computer vision engineer or researcher who loves working on challenging unsolved problems in a dynamic and collaborative environment?  Have you lead a team taking a computer vision problem from invention to product?  KLA could be for you.  Come join our high performing team consisting of PhDs, machine vision and algorithm engineers building the next generation of AI enabled semiconductor inspection equipment.  The successful candidate will grow their career in the LS-SWIFT managing an algorithms group in Chennai, India by

  • Collaborate with KLA’s AI and HPC centers of excellence
  • Further product roadmaps through applied R&D
  • Drove innovation through hackathons and engineering conferences
  • Further KLA’s technical IP portfolio through generating patent filings

Qualifications

  • Subject matter expert in Computer Vision
  • Great teammate with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience managing an AI product from development through deployment

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 3 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 8 years

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer

Be aware of potentially fraudulent job postings or suspicious recruiting activity by persons that are currently posing as KLA employees.  KLA never asks for any financial compensation to be considered for an interview, to become an employee, or for equipment. Further, KLA does not work with any recruiters or third parties who charge such fees either directly or on behalf of KLA. Please ensure that you have searched KLA’s Careers website for legitimate job postings.  KLA follows a recruiting process that involves multiple interviews in person or on video conferencing with our hiring managers.  If you are concerned that a communication, an interview, an offer of employment, or that an employee is not legitimate, please send an email to [email protected] to confirm the person you are communicating with is an employee. We take your privacy very seriously and confidentially handle your information.

Top Skills

Computer Vision

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