AI Engineer

Role Description Associate III - Semiconductor S/W Product Development

Who We Are At UST, we help the world’s best organizations grow and succeed through transformation. Bringing together the right talent, tools, and ideas, we work with our client to co-create lasting change. Together, with over 26,000 employees in 25 countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at .

The Opportunity We are seeking hands-on AI Modeling Engineers to install, model, and fine-tune the LLM for Semiconductor Engineering. To build and deploy high-impact, on-premise AI applications catering to Foundry use. Fine-tunes Large Language Models with emphasis on instruction fine-tuning and domain adaptation to enhance model relevance and performance in specific contexts.

Key Responsibilities A primary objective is to fine tune the models for semiconductor domain. This role requires practical understanding of semiconductor mathematical models, apply strong data engineering principles to analyse & predict behaviours, enable characteristics solutions in semiconductor space for process development and design rules. Expected to perform independently.

• Fine Tune Modeling Techniques
• Strong NLP experience
• Good Understanding of Model Mathematics
• Inference Optimization
• LoRA/ QLoRA/ PEFT
• Deep Neural Networks
• Applied LLM Application Development in semiconductor domain

Bonus Skills

• Hands-on experience building applications using LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Expert Python & Pandas: Demonstrable mastery in using Python and the

Pandas library for complex data manipulation, cleaning, and analysis, especially with Excel filesAPI Development: Proven experience building and deploying production-ready APIs using FastAPI or Flask.

• RAG Implementation: Practical knowledge and project experience in building RAG pipelines, including the use of vector databases (e.g., Qdrant, Chroma, FAISS).
• Data Pipeline Skills: Experience in building reliable data ingestion (ETL) and processing workflows.
• On-Premise Model Familiarity: Understanding of how to work with open-source LLMs (e.g., Llama, Mistral) in a local environment is a significant advantage

Qualification

• A minimum of 3-5 years of professional LLM development experience in Semiconductor domain.
• 2-4 years of direct, hands-on experience in AI/ML development, with a focus on applied AI and LLM applications in Semiconductor domain

What We Believe We’re proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we’ve been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion and to place people at the center of everything we do.

Humility We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.

• To support and promote the values of UST.
• Comply with all Company policies and procedures

Skills semiconductor product development,ai modeling,llm,nlp,fi