# Staff Defect Metrology AI/ML Engineer

We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Engineer, Defect Metrology to join our MOCVD team. This role will provide technical leadership in semiconductor defect inspection, data analytics, and development of advanced defect detection and classification capabilities. The ideal candidate combines hands-on semiconductor metrology experience with strong skills in Python, data analysis, image processing, and AI/ML to improve product quality, process control, and manufacturing yield. Key Responsibilities: Develop image-processing algorithms and AI/ML models to detect, classify, and quantify semiconductor defects such as particles, pits, and scratches. Analyze large datasets from wafer inspection, metrology, and MOCVD processes to identify trends, correlations, anomalies, and root causes. Develop automated analysis and visualization workflows using Python, SQL, JMP, Excel, and related tools. Correlate incoming substrate defects with epitaxial defects and develop data-driven methods for substrate quality screening. Integrate defect, process, equipment, and wafer-level data to improve understanding of defect mechanisms and yield drivers. Partner with process, equipment, and development engine

- **Id**: 3902804
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/renesas-electronics-staff-defect-metrology-aiml-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Goleta, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T20:41:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T18:38:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5889
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Automotive Components, Analog & Power Semiconductors

## Company

- **Id**: 3481
- **Name**: Renesas Electronics
- **Domain**: renesas.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/renesas-electronics>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 102
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.99
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 120000
- **Max**: 160000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 160000

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **CVD** — Optional: no
- **JMP** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **OpenCV** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Statistical Process Control** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T01:23:05Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 60 · green card filings: 30; Filings 12m: 60

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 160000
- **Is top pay**: no

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