AI Engineering Architect - Agentic AI & Digital Engineering

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

Group/Division

The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards for technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials. We also develop technologies for specialty processes, IC substrates, and PCB manufacturing, including etch and deposition, component inspection, and imaging and analytics. The RAPID division leads the industry in reticle inspection solutions, helping ensure high lithography yields and cost-effective semiconductor manufacturing. Its systems support both mask shops and fabs by detecting defects early in the process, enabling faster, more reliable production.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

The Advanced Technology of RAPID Division is seeking a builder-first AI Engineering Architect to define and deploy AI solutions for EUV source development and next-generation actinic inspection engineering. This role will focus on AI roadmap ownership and implementation across tool health analytics, intelligent troubleshooting, agentic workflow automation, AI-augmented MBSE / digital thread, routing/CAD/BOM workflows, and engineering productivity tools.

Why Join / Business Impact:
This role targets current bottlenecks in engineering planning and transformation, including tool health monitoring, root-cause analysis, procedure and document acceleration, digital-thread adoption, and engineering workflow productivity. The goal is to reduce engineering iteration, improve decision quality, and accelerate development readiness for advanced EUV source and actinic inspection systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the AI roadmap for EUV source and digital engineering use cases; identify, prioritize, and sequence high-value opportunities tied to engineering impact.

• Build AI solutions for source health analytics, anomaly detection, and predictive monitoring using engineering telemetry, metrology, and operational data.

• Develop AI-assisted and agentic workflows for alarm audit, root-cause analysis, procedure creation, and engineering task automation.

• Partner with engineering teams to enable AI-assisted modeling, digital thread, MBSE, and knowledge-grounded engineering workflows.

• Support AI-assisted routing, CAD integration, model-to-BOM, and early BOM activities as part of engineering digital transformation.

• Define AI observability, evaluation, tracing, and safe production deployment practices for engineering AI systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with agentic AI, tool-using LLM workflows, multi-agent systems, or RAG/vector-backed knowledge systems.

• Experience with time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics for industrial systems.

• Experience with MBSE, digital thread, SysML, requirements traceability, or model-centric engineering.

• Experience with CAD/PLM/PDM integration, BOM workflows, or engineering data interoperability.

• Experience in semiconductor equipment, capital equipment, optics, plasma, vacuum systems, or manufacturing engineering.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and related work experience of 5 years; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 8 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 12 years

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML solutions for complex engineering or industrial workflows.
• Experience with integrating AI into engineering data, software, or workflow systems.
• Experience with engineering data such as sensor streams, logs, structured/unstructured technical documents, or time-series datasets.
• Ability to translate ambiguous engineering pain points into scalable AI architectures and deployable solutions.

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Total Rewards

Base Pay Range: $186,200.00 - $273,067.00 Annually
Primary Location: USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA

KLA’s total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits, 401(K) including company matching, employee stock purchase program (ESPP), student debt assistance, tuition reimbursement program, development and career growth opportunities and programs, financial planning benefits, wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP), paid time off and paid company holidays, and family care and bonding leave.

Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed reflects the pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting. Actual pay depends on several factors, including state minimum pay wage rates, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education level or training. We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable. If applicable, your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

Equal Opportunity Statement

KLA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at [email protected] or at +1-408-352-2808 to request accommodation.

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