Lead Scientific Engineer - AI-Enhanced Simulation

KLA Industries; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

KLA Industries in Seattle seeks a highly qualified candidate to advance modeling and simulation capabilities in water resources and environmental systems. You will own numerical and algorithmic development, build and verify models, and collaborate with engineering to implement improvements.

Strong background in applied math, PDEs, and machine learning will support modernization efforts and rapid advancement of the framework.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in science or engineering with outstanding academic performance.
• Broad experience with applied math and numerical methods for solving science and engineering problems.

Responsibilities

• Own numerical and algorithmic development across modeling projects.
• Build and verify models validating against real data.
• Document methodologies and transfer knowledge to the team.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate new numerical capabilities into the framework.
• Identify opportunities to modernize numerical infrastructure using ML.

Skills

C++ programming

Numerical methods

Machine learning

Communication skills

Education

Master's or PhD

Tools

MATLAB

R

Tableau

Job description

KLA Industries in Seattle seeks a highly qualified candidate to advance modeling and simulation capabilities in water resources and environmental systems. You will own numerical and algorithmic development, build and verify models, and collaborate with engineering to implement improvements.

Strong background in applied math, PDEs, and machine learning will support modernization efforts and rapid advancement of the framework.