Principal AI Data Scientist – Scientific AI & Physics-Informed Machine Learning

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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Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy advanced AI/ML solutions for semiconductor process and device simulations Electronic Design Automation (EDA) packaging reliability and manufacturing applications.

  Create physics-informed and hybrid AI models that integrate experimental data simulation outputs and domain knowledge.

• Build surrogate models and scientific machine learning frameworks to accelerate computationally intensive simulations and engineering workflows.

• Research and apply state-of-the-art techniques including deep learning generative AI graph neural networks neural operators and foundation models.

• Collaborate with semiconductor experts software engineers and product teams to transition research into production solutions.

• Drive innovation through patents publications and technical leadership across STM and Applied Materials.

• Effective technical verbal/written communication representing the org with limited supervision. Ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders customers and vendors.
• Able to follow complex program schedules budgets and milestones with limited supervision.
• Collaborates/participate in discussions to solve interdisciplinary technical issues in a cross-functional team environment.

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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.

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