CareerPlan

2027 Summer Intern - Physicist/Scientist - PhD, (Santa Clara)

Santa Clara,CAInternship2026-10-09 → 2026-10-23

Core

Design next-generation plasma processing tools and develop forward-looking R&D projects involving plasma-surface interaction models and machine learning.

Role type

Summer intern physicist/scientist (PhD track)

Builds

Plasma processing systems, internal plasma and feature scale models

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing, materials science, plasma physics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

computational physics, plasma physics, molecular dynamics, plasma chemistry, surface physics, density functional theory, reacting flows, fluid dynamics, machine learning

Responsibilities

Design new plasma processing systems, use molecular dynamics simulation to understand surface processes, develop internal plasma models, apply physics models to etch and deposition experiments, explore ML methods to accelerate model development