Data Scientist II, New College Grad- Master's (Santa Clara, CA)

Who We Are

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the worlds technology.

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Youll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn develop and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possiblewhile learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.

At Applied Materials we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. Were committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work at home or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits.

• Design develop and deploy AI solutions - search summarization agentic automation AI-assisted decision support - built as reusable components and workflows that scale across use cases.
• Build the data pipelines that analysis and AI solutions depend on.
• Take work from notebook to production with documented methods data lineage and clear ownership.
• Build statistical and machine learning models and evaluate them honestly including where they fail.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into structured solutions with measurable outcomes.
• Build dashboards and applications in Tableau and Power BI that decision makers actually use and present findings to business and executive audiences.

• Understanding of supply chain management concepts (planning inventory logistics procurement repair operations reverse value chain).
• Strong database fundamentals (RDBMS concepts relational and dimensional data modeling normalization keys and constraints indexing query execution plans).
• Strong SQL skills (joins aggregations subqueries CTEs window functions query optimization).
• Big data fundamentals (distributed processing partitioning columnar and table formats Spark and lakehouse architecture).
• Data engineering fundamentals (ETL/ELT ingestion from multiple source systems pipeline design and orchestration data quality and validation).
• Strong Python skills for data analysis and machine learning (Pandas NumPy SciPy scikit-learn).
• Machine learning fundamentals (supervised and unsupervised methods feature engineering cross-validation evaluation metrics overfitting and regularization).
• Statistical fundamentals (distributions sampling hypothesis testing experimental design correlation versus causation).
• Hands-on experience with Databricks or a comparable cloud data platform (Snowflake BigQuery).
• Data visualization with Tableau and/or Power BI.

• Applied GenAI and LLM experience (prompting retrieval augmented generation LLM APIs agentic workflows output evaluation).
• Knowledge of Six Sigma Lean or DMAIC process improvement methodologies.

• Masters degree in Data Science Operations Research Engineering Computer Science Statistics Supply Chain Analytics or another quantitative field.
• GPA of 3.0 or above preferred.
• Demonstrated skills in data science and business analytics.

• Investigates the data instead of accepting it and asks the question behind the question.
• Traces a number end to end - from the business process that generated it to the table it lands in to the decision it drives.
• Treats stakeholders as partners in the problem rather than submitters of requests and pushes back when the request will not solve it.
• Builds working relationships across functions and time zones and keeps partners informed as the work progresses.
• Sees the pattern across two problems that looked unrelated and builds the thing that solves both.
• Cares whether the solution actually gets used not just whether it works.

ADDED ADVANTAGE

• Knowledge of supply chain circular economy and reverse value chain processes.
• Machine learning or AI solutions taken end to end from data preparation through deployment.
• Production LLM application work (RAG pipelines agents or evaluation harnesses).
• Experience with Databricks ETL data ingestion or BI and AI workloads on a governed data platform.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please apply by November 30 2026. Note: This position may close early based on application volume or candidate selection.

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The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location hire grade job-related knowledge skills experience and with consideration of internal equity of our current team addition to a comprehensive benefits package candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program as applicable.

For all sales roles the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin citizenship ancestry religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity age disability veteran or military status or any other basis prohibited by law.

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