Full-Time

Senior AI Engineer

Machine Learning

Gauss Labs

Gauss Labs

51-200 employees

Industrial AI for semiconductor manufacturing optimization

No salary listed

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid work model with on-site presence in Palo Alto, California.

Bachelor's, Master's, PhD

Category
AI & Machine Learning (1)
Required Skills
Scikit-learn
Kubernetes
Python
TensorFlow
Git
PyTorch
Docker
Pandas
Observability
NumPy
DevOps

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Requirements
  • BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, plus 6+ years of full-time experience; or MS/PhD plus 4+ years of full-time experience.
  • Strong programming skills in Python with a solid grounding in algorithms and data structures, and deep proficiency with the Python data/ML stack (NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, and PyTorch or TensorFlow) for end-to-end model development.
  • 3+ years building production-grade ML infrastructure — data pipelines, training/inference workflows, and deployment automation — with solid software engineering fundamentals (Git, testing, code review, CI/CD, and containerization/orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes).
  • Track record of shipping ML systems with real attention to scalability, performance, and reliability.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership: owning the roadmap for multi-quarter, multi-team efforts, driving cross-team and cross-functional alignment, and mentoring other engineers.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with AI Scientists to build and productionize our tabular foundation models — owning the pretraining, fine-tuning, serving, and monitoring infrastructure and scaling it from research prototype to large-scale production.
  • Build reliable, performant ML infrastructure across research, staging, and production: data, training, and inference pipelines, CI/CD, observability, and reproducible workflows, tuned for latency, throughput, and resource usage.
  • Design evaluation and monitoring that reflect how models are actually used, including handling real-world data challenges such as distribution shift and limited labels.
  • Set engineering standards, lead design and architecture reviews, and drive adoption of new modeling approaches, algorithms, and infrastructure.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to integrate ML into user-facing systems.
  • Define scope and roadmap for multi-team initiatives, drive cross-team and cross-functional alignment across AI Science, engineering, and product, and mentor senior engineers to raise the organization's technical bar.
Desired Qualifications
  • BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, plus 8+ years of full-time experience; or MS/PhD plus 6+ years of full-time experience.
  • Experience pretraining, fine-tuning, and serving foundation models and transformers of any modality (tabular, timeseries, language, vision, etc.) at scale.
  • Experience optimizing training and inference for large-scale models, including distributed/parallel training (multi-GPU/multi-node).
  • Experience deploying ML in production across batch, real-time, or edge settings.
  • Experience with models under real-world data challenges — distribution shift, limited or noisy labels, or continual learning.
  • Development in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Productive with AI-assisted / agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Copilot) and eager to push their limits — building workflows and agents that raise the team's velocity.

Gauss Labs builds AI-powered software for manufacturing, with a focus on the semiconductor sector. Its products monitor and optimize factory processes by collecting machine-generated data from production lines and running AI models on scalable software infrastructure to detect anomalies, improve quality, and reduce downtime. The company differentiates itself through deep domain expertise in industrial AI, a leadership team with a background in enterprise ML and product development, and a cross‑border presence in Silicon Valley and Seoul to serve large manufacturing customers with enterprise-grade solutions. The goal is to make semiconductor factories more efficient and reliable by turning data into actionable insights and automated process improvements.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$55M

Headquarters

California City, California

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Panoptes VM 2.0 expanded into SK hynix etching in August 2024.
  • Gauss Labs claims 29% process variability improvement with APC integration.
  • SK hynix still owns 97.39% and keeps publishing joint research with Gauss Labs.

What critics are saying

  • SK hynix wrote down Gauss Labs 25.3 billion won on March 27, 2026.
  • SK hynix now favors Nvidia platforms, weakening Gauss Labs' strategic moat.
  • Gauss Labs has never posted net profit; cumulative losses hit 18.958 billion won.

What makes Gauss Labs unique

  • Gauss Labs ships virtual metrology for SK hynix fabs, not generic enterprise AI.
  • Its Panoptes VM 2.0 predicts wafer outcomes in real time from sensor data.
  • Joint SPIE 2026 papers show explainable AI for overlay and tool-to-tool matching.

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Benefits

Competitive compensation + meaningful equity

Generous PTO policy

Comprehensive wellbeing benefits

Paid family leaves

L&D opportunities

Additional benefits unique to each site

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Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

2%
Tech in Asia
Mar 27th, 2026
SK hynix writes down AI venture Gauss Labs by $25M, shifts to Nvidia platform

SK hynix has written down its AI venture Gauss Labs by $25.3 million, reflecting a strategic shift towards Nvidia's AI platform. The move comes as SK Group prioritises a broader partnership with Nvidia over its in-house AI development. SK Group and Nvidia are building an "AI factory" data centre in Korea featuring 50,000 Nvidia GPUs, with phase one scheduled for completion by end of 2027. The facility will support digital twins and AI agents, providing cloud services for SK Group affiliates and external customers. SK hynix already uses Nvidia-accelerated software from Cadence, Siemens and Synopsys for DRAM and flash memory production. The company plans to deploy autonomous factories by 2030 using Nvidia's Omniverse platform. The write-down reflects the growing trend of industrial firms adopting established AI platforms rather than building proprietary solutions.

PR Newswire
Aug 13th, 2024
Gauss Labs Releases Ai-Based Virtual Metrology Solution, Panoptes Vm 2.0

New features added in order to improve accuracy and usabilitySK hynix expands adoption of Gauss Labs's solution to etching process in addition to thin film deposition processGauss Labs plans to expand its presence in global industrial AI market with strong references in semiconductor manufacturingSEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Gauss Labs announced today that it released the second version of its AI-based virtual metrology* solution, Panoptes VM 2.0.*Metrology: a process of measuring the physical and electrical characteristics to ensure that requirements are met in the manufacturing processGauss Labs Releases AI-Based Virtual Metrology Solution, Panoptes VM 2.0Panoptes VM provides all-wafer measurement data in real-time by predicting process outcomes from sensor data. By applying this solution, it is possible to predict the process results of all products without physical full-scale measurement, significantly reducing time and resources.Gauss Labs said that Panoptes VM 2.0 is making a new leap forward with new modeling features including the Multi-Step Modeling, Operation-Group Modeling and Automatic Model Selection. With these new features, the prediction accuracy and usability have been greatly improved, compared to the previous version.Gauss Labs, an industrial AI company invested by SK hynix, first launched Panoptes VM 1.0 in November 2022. The system has been deployed to the thin film deposition* process at SK hynix's high-volume manufacturing fabs since December 2022. By integrating the virtual measurement results from Panoptes VM with APC*, SK hynix improved process variability* by approximately 29% and also enhanced yield rate.*Thin film deposition: the process of creating and depositing thin film coatings onto a substrate material*APC(Advanced Process Control): a solution that adjusts process condition for equipment adaptively during a manufacturing process*Variability: the scale of the quality variation of the products from a certain process

PR Newswire
Feb 29th, 2024
Gauss Labs And Sk Hynix Publish The Latest Results On Ai-Based Semiconductor Metrology Technology At Spie Al 2024

-  Two joint academic papers on AI-based metrology technology presented-  Gauss Labs's innovative technology improves process control and equipment productivity in semiconductor manufacturing-  Gauss Labs is at the forefront, leading industrial AI efforts to transform the manufacturing industrySEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SK hynix Inc. (or "the company", www.skhynix.com) and Gauss Labs announced today that they participated in the SPIE AL* 2024, an international conference held in San Jose, California, and presented two papers based on the latest technology for AI-based metrology. Gauss Labs CEO Mike Kim (center) poses with his colleagues. * SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning (SPIE AL): a conference hosted by the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), the most prestigious international society in optics and photonics following foundation in 1955, where overall lithography technology for drawing semiconductor circuits is discussed

PR Newswire APAC
Dec 20th, 2023
headline start GAUSS LAB: Transforming the Energy Industry with Modern Digital Solutions headline end

Data Visualization, Real-time Monitoring, and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)-based Analysis: In collaboration with energy giants KEPCO and K-Water, GAUSS LAB has developed innovative solutions integrating data visualization with real-time energy data monitoring.

BusinessKorea
Jan 11th, 2023
SK Hynix Boosts Yields by Applying AI Solution to Chip Production Processes

Gauss Labs, a company specializing in industrial AI and backed by SK Hynix, released “Panoptes VM,” a virtual measurement AI solution, in November 2022.