Algorithm Engineering Intern

KLA; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Other voluntary benefits

401(k) including company matching

ESPP

Student debt assistance

Job summary

KLA in Ann Arbor, MI is seeking a highly motivated student to contribute to advanced analytics and software development for our inspection and metrology solutions. This role focuses on applying ML and signal processing to improve product performance and reduce costs across measurement domains.

In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, work on modeling techniques, and help scale algorithms from prototypes to production. Your work will directly impact next‑gen KLA tools.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Master’s or PhD-level degree.
• Strong mathematical and engineering foundations.

Responsibilities

• Apply traditional and deep learning models (optical, physical, and mathematical) to improve KLA products.
• Experiment with techniques to reduce compute cost for modeling, processing spectra and images.
• Build signal and image processing tools for faster experimentation.
• Manage measurement and imaging data used for training AI and physics models.
• Develop software tools for processing and analyzing measurements and images.

Education

Master's or PhD degree

Job description

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

In this role:

• Work with traditional and deep learning algorithm techniques, such as optical, physical, and mathematical modeling, inverse problems, and AI models to meet and improve results on KLA products.
• Experiment with new and novel techniques to improve results or reduce compute cost of various modeling techniques for processing and analyzing measurement spectra and images.
• Build signal/image processing and analysis tools for more efficient experimentation.
• Manage measurement and imaging data used for training and experimentation of AI and physics modeling systems.
• Develop software tools and solutions processing and analyzing measurements and images for KLA products.

Minimum Qualifications

Students pursuing a Master's OR PhD-level degree

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Total Rewards

Base Pay Range: $40.00 - $50.00 per hour based on pursuit of a Masters and Ph.D. Primary Location: USA-MI-Ann Arbor-KLA

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life
• other voluntary benefits
• 401(K) including company matching
• employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
• student debt assistance