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Principal Systems Software Engineer, Semiconductor Systems Inspection

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $272,000–$272,000🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Developing production-ready AI products for semiconductor defect inspection, including anomaly generation, inspection workflows, and inference pipelines for optical/e-beam inspection environments.

Role type

Principal Systems Software Engineer (Semiconductor AI Inspection)

Builds

AI models, adaptation workflows, and inference pipelines for semiconductor manufacturing inspection.

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing, computer vision, and industrial AI.

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Systems design and architecture, deep learning, computer vision, Python, model adaptation, domain transfer, technical leadership

Preferred skills

Semiconductor inspection, knowledge distillation, model compression, anomaly detection, NVIDIA deployment tools (TensorRT, CUDA, Triton)

Responsibilities

Define and prototype AI system architectures for defect inspection, advance WFM capabilities for multimodal representation learning, partner to integrate computer vision workflows, design agentic inspection flows for air-gapped fab environments, apply semiconductor metrology context to improve model quality, address noisy/shifting fab data through calibration and augmentation, turn research into customer-ready products, work with cross-functional teams to set priorities.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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