AI Systems Lead: Production ML & Data Ops

KLA; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 112,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

KLA in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is seeking an AI Engineer to lead a growing engineering team focused on production AI systems. The role emphasizes technical leadership, delivery, and mentorship while collaborating with data scientists and full-stack engineers.

You will contribute hands-on to the codebase, set scalable patterns for evaluation and deployment, and help translate experiments into production-ready AI solutions across internal tooling and customer-facing features.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years building production software systems.
• 2+ years with AI/ML or LLMs in production.
• Experience delivering end-to-end AI features.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of production AI systems end-to-end.
• Contribute hands-on to codebase and set high engineering quality.
• Establish scalable patterns for evaluation, deployment, and reliability.
• Mentor engineers and support hiring and onboarding.
• Collaborate with data scientists and full-stack engineers across teams.

Skills

AI/ML production

End-to-end AI systems

Technical leadership

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Data Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

LLMs

Model serving

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Job description

KLA in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is seeking an AI Engineer to lead a growing engineering team focused on production AI systems. The role emphasizes technical leadership, delivery, and mentorship while collaborating with data scientists and full-stack engineers.

You will contribute hands-on to the codebase, set scalable patterns for evaluation and deployment, and help translate experiments into production-ready AI solutions across internal tooling and customer-facing features.