CareerPlan

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

Santa Clara,CA, USInternship2026-10-09 → 2026-11-09

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 (plasma physics & ML)

Builds

Next-generation plasma processing systems and internal plasma/feature scale models

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing equipment, plasma physics, materials science

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, run molecular dynamics simulations for surface processes, develop internal plasma models, analyze plasma etch and deposition experiments, apply plasma models to complex behavior, explore ML methods for model acceleration