Senior AI/ML Production Systems Engineer

KLA-Belgium; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life

401(K) matching

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

KLA is seeking an AI/ML Engineer - Systems for its Midwest HQ in Ann Arbor, MI. You will join a collaborative team to turn AI/ML research into production-grade systems, focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability of AI workloads across applications and pipelines.

The role emphasizes hands-on integration, optimization, and operational excellence, with opportunities to influence architecture and deployment strategies across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or a related field.
• Master's and/or PhD preferred.
• 8+ years of software engineering with 3-5 years of AI/ML, production deployment track record.
• Proficiency in Python with TensorFlow and Scikit-learn.
• Experience with RAG is essential.
• Strong background in statistics, ML algorithms, deep learning, neural networks, and system architecture.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and data processing technologies.
• Ability to lead technical projects and communicate with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Integrate AI/ML components into existing applications, services, and pipelines, with a focus on long-term reliability and maintainability.
• Improve system and model performance across latency, throughput, reliability, and resource efficiency, and participate in practical trade-off discussions.
• Collaborate on the design and implementation of scalable, resilient AI/ML systems that evolve as new use cases emerge.
• Help ensure AI/ML systems meet enterprise expectations for security, compliance, observability, and operational readiness.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of AI/ML systems in production.
• Work closely with cross-functional partners to deliver stable, high-impact AI capabilities.

Skills

MLOps

CI/CD

Python

TensorFlow

Scikit-learn

RAG

Cloud platforms

DevOps practices

System architecture

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or related field

Master's and/or PhD preferred

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

KLA is seeking an AI/ML Engineer - Systems for its Midwest HQ in Ann Arbor, MI. You will join a collaborative team to turn AI/ML research into production-grade systems, focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability of AI workloads across applications and pipelines.

The role emphasizes hands-on integration, optimization, and operational excellence, with opportunities to influence architecture and deployment strategies across teams.