{"id":1142771,"url":"https://alion.io/job/applied-materials-senior-software-ai-engineer","title":"Senior Software & AI Engineer","company":{"id":3903,"name":"Applied Materials","domain":"amat.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/amat","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":304,"ghost_share":0.003,"stale_share":0.816,"repost_share":0.003,"time_to_fill_p50_days":38,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Rehovot, Israel"],"countries":["IL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":117000,"max_usd":292000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1271},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Computer Vision","optional":false},{"name":"Context Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Tool Use","optional":false},{"name":"Anthropic","optional":true},{"name":"Asyncio","optional":true},{"name":"C++","optional":true},{"name":"FastAPI","optional":true},{"name":"Git","optional":true},{"name":"InfluxDB","optional":true},{"name":"Java","optional":true},{"name":"Kotlin","optional":true},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":true},{"name":"Matplotlib","optional":true},{"name":"NumPy","optional":true},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":true},{"name":"Pillow","optional":true},{"name":"Plotly","optional":true},{"name":"PySide6","optional":true},{"name":"Pytest","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true},{"name":"Rust","optional":true},{"name":"scikit-image","optional":true},{"name":"SciPy","optional":true},{"name":"SQLAlchemy","optional":true},{"name":"WebSockets","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T13:04:53Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T13:53:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Who We Are\nApplied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the world’s technology.\nWhat We Offer\nLocation:\nRehovot,ISRYou’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible-while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.\nAt Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits.\nWe are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to build the calibration systems software for advanced electron microscope columns.\nThe rol e\nYou will own the architecture, design, and implementation of software that combines scientific computing, image processing, and distributed systems to enable fully automated calibration workflows - working at the intersection of software engineering, physics, and real laboratory hardware, under stringent performance requirements. The team is part of the R&D department\nbehind a major new product, developing the next generation of software and algorithm solutions that will power Applied Materials' metrology and inspection systems.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nStay deeply hands-on while owning project-level architecture for complex, stateful calibration workflows.\nBuild end-to-end, full-stack services - from concurrent, iterative hardware control loops up to the operator-facing UI.\nOwn algorithms end to end - research, design, implement, validate, document, optimize - across numerical methods, computer vision (registration, pattern matching, tracking), and performance-critical real-time image processing.\nApply data science methods to real measurement data: design experiments, analyze results, quantify system performance with sound metrics.\nBuild and evolve the AI-specific infrastructure of our physics-informed SDLC harness-agents, tools, context and evaluation pipelines.\nDevelop hardware simulation and monitoring tools that support the team algorithm development and automated testing.\nWork closely with physicists to validate and refine calibration workflows and algorithms, and with Product, Design, and other R&D teams to ship them.\nWhat you should have:\n5+ years of professional software development\n2+ years of R&D experience (algorithms / ML), including end-to-end ownership of meaningful features and projects.\nDeep concurrency expertise: designing concurrent execution models, parallelism, and multi-threaded dispatchers - and reasoning about their failure modes, tradeoffs, and performance under load.\nStrong system design: microservices and distributed systems, API design, message queues or event streaming (delivery semantics, ordering, failure handling).\nNumerical algorithms and optimization, image processing fundamentals, and familiarity with hardware control or instrumentation software.\nAI engineering: hands-on experience building with LLMs and agents - prompt and context engineering, tool calling, retrieval, evaluation - and a genuine drive to stay current.\nSolid engineering practices: e2e, regression, and automated testing, code review, CI/CD, virtualization (Docker).\nA product mindset - you understand customer needs and business impact.\nB.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience. Preferred backgrounds: computational physics, applied mathematics, image processing, optics, microscopy, signal processing, numerical analysis.\nNice to have:\nM.Sc. in CS, Software Engineering, EE, or a related field.\nA proven track record of excellence - academic, military, or professional honors, awards, or recognition for outstanding achievements.\nElectron microscopy or semiconductor equipment.\nExperience with advanced performance profiling and optimization.\nExperience with advanced concurrency models in another backend language (C++, Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust).\nTechnology stack:\nOur current R&D-phase stack - representative, not a checklist.\nAPIs: FastAPI, Uvicorn, Pydantic, WebSockets.\nAlgorithms: NumPy, SciPy, scikit-image, Matplotlib, Pillow.\nHardware: pyserial, cffi, vendor device SDKs.\nBackend: SQLAlchemy, InfluxDB.\nFrontend: Dash, Plotly, PySide6, qasync.\nAI Provider: Anthropic / OpenAI.\nTesting and tooling: pytest (asyncio, mock, benchmark, coverage), mypy, Docker, Git.\nWho we are:\nApplied Materials Israel is home to the Process Diagnostics and Control business unit (PDC).\nBased in Rehovot, we develop, manufacture, and market cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision-based metrology and inspection products that are essential elements in wafer fabrication. By playing a significant role in enabling the production of the next generation of microchips, our expertise enables our customers to transform possibilities into reality.\nAdditional Information\nTime Type:\nFull timeEmployee Type:\nAssignee / RegularTravel:\nNoRelocation Eligible:\nNoApplied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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