AI Engineering Architect – Agentic AI & Digital Engineering - Milpitas, CA, United States
$186,200 - $316,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 May 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The AI Engineering Architect defines and deploys AI solutions for EUV source development and actinic inspection engineering within the RAPID Division. The role focuses on AI roadmap ownership and implementation across tool health analytics, intelligent troubleshooting, agentic workflow automation, AI-augmented MBSE, digital thread, routing/CAD/BOM workflows, and engineering productivity tools.
What you'll do
- Own the AI roadmap for EUV source and digital engineering use cases, prioritizing and sequencing opportunities tied to engineering impact. - Build AI solutions for source health analytics, anomaly detection, and predictive monitoring using engineering telemetry, metrology, and operational data. - Develop AI-assisted and agentic workflows for alarm audit, root-cause analysis, procedure creation, and engineering task automation. - Partner with engineering teams to enable AI-assisted modeling, digital thread, MBSE, and knowledge-grounded engineering workflows. - Support AI-assisted routing, CAD integration, model-to-BOM, and early BOM activities as part of engineering digital transformation. - Define AI observability, evaluation, tracing, and production deployment practices for engineering AI systems.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience, Master's degree with 8+ years of experience, or PhD with 5+ years of experience in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering, or a related field. - Hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML solutions for complex engineering or industrial workflows. - Experience integrating AI into engineering data, software, or workflow systems. - Experience with engineering data including sensor streams, logs, structured/unstructured technical documents, or time-series datasets. - Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous engineering pain points into scalable AI architectures and deployable solutions.
Nice to have
- Experience with agentic AI, tool-using LLM workflows, multi-agent systems, or RAG/vector-backed knowledge systems. - Experience with time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics for industrial systems. - Experience with MBSE, digital thread, SysML, requirements traceability, or model-centric engineering. - Experience with CAD/PLM/PDM integration, BOM workflows, or engineering data interoperability. - Experience in semiconductor equipment, capital equipment, optics, plasma, vacuum systems, or manufacturing engineering.
Skills: Agentic AI, AI Architect, KLA, digital engineering
This role has been open 217 days — well above the 54-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1000
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$223k
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| Metric | KLA Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (1000 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 22 | 1000 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 206 | 6302 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 94 d | 54 d (+40 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $223k |
Skills observed across this category: Agentic AI, AI Architect, KLA, digital engineering
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 282 open roles · median 52 d
- Qualcomm · 65 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 27 d
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- Intel Corporation · 48 open roles · median 15 d
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How we counted: 1000 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 26 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.