Introduction

ASML US, including its affiliates and subsidiaries, bring together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market, and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

Job Mission

ASML’s Chief Data Office in IT is seeking a visionary AI Services Architect to design, implement, and oversee AI services that align with the organization’s digital transformation initiatives. This role focuses on building and supporting scalable self-service AI platforms and services to enable cutting-edge data-driven insights and automation for business and manufacturing use cases. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of AI/ML frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise data systems.

The mission of the AI and Data Services Architect for the CDO AI Services Team is to provide architecture guidance and technical leadership to enable and support artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) solutions to support ASML US sectors, business lines and departments. Our AI solutions and use cases span multiple enabling technologies (on-premise, cloud, edge, agents) as well as highly heterogenous data assets (content-rich, structured, unstructured, real-time, local, field installed base, etc.) with also a broad range of consumption and business process enablement needs.

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Job Description

Design and develop enterprise-grade AI services and solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.
Own the architecture runway for AI platforms and services in the US in alignment with the global CDO AI Services capabilities and roadmap.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Data Engineers, AI Scientists, and business stakeholders, to translate business needs into technical solutions.
Own feature analysis for enablement on AI services and platforms.
Design and implement monitoring, observability, and operational best practices for deployed AI services.
Stay updated on emerging trends in AI
Closely collaborate with the AI Domain Architect in the Netherlands to ensure alignment with global architectural strategies and standards
Contribute to AI use case discussions by framing architecture boundaries for solution direction, including innovation step-ups, resulting in robust, enterprise-grade solutions
Consult and support CDO US delivery teams on epics and features to ensure alignment with intended solution path and architecture guidelines as well as incorporating relevant non-functional requirements
Influence IT CDO and ASML (where appropriate) technology roadmaps to prioritize, incorporate or ramp-up on technologies and capabilities needed to support ASML US business needs
Collaborate effectively with the IT architect community and specifically with the CDO architects to ensure clarity in enterprise data management and analytics capability roadmaps and full recognition of key enabler needs and priorities to support ASML US business needs
Contribute to the IT architecture competence both at the global IT, department (CDO), and region (CDO US) level
Mentor junior or “new to ASML” architects to ensure effective a positive and successful transition to their roles, architecture competence, and relevant stakeholder network
Other duties as assigned.
Job description subject to change at any time.

Education and Experience

Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or a related field.
8+ years of experience in software architecture, with at least 3 years in AI/ML systems.
Expertise in cloud services (Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS), containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker), and CI/CD pipelines.
Strong understanding of data ecosystems, including ETL pipelines, data lakes, and data warehouses.
Experience with AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
Knowledge of model serving technologies (e.g., NVIDIA Triton, Ray Serve, or similar).
Proven experience in designing API-driven architectures and microservices.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Certified on Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Google GCP, or Amazon AWS cloud solution architecture and data management, data engineering, and analytics / AI technologies a plus.
Certified in TOGAF, ARIS, ITIL, etc. is a plus.
Proven experience with fundamental solution design principles and data integration patterns for enterprise-grade and enterprise-scope solutions.
Proven experience with cloud and containerized application design principles including SOA, microservices, APIs, contracts, etc.
Proven experience leading DevOps technologies for container-based software solution delivery.
Proven experience integrating security principles and implementation for container-based solutions.
Proven experience with ideation, technical innovation, and venture/startups is a plus.
Proven experience with data science and artificial intelligence capabilities, tools and platforms.
Familiar with data visualization tools and capabilities such as PowerBI, Grafana, or Spotfire.
Familiar with database principles, data warehousing (virtual or physical), data modeling, and data governance concepts.
Familiar with range of high tech industries and operations, with semiconductor, high tech manufacturing, and field service a plus.

Skills & Competencies

Technical leadership, positive engagement, and effective communication with a range of stakeholders, peers, and internal customers.
Problem-solving and analytics skills in fast-paced, high-energy technical environments.
Continuously learn, assess, and adapt new cloud, data, and AI technologies and capabilities to determine relevance and fit to ASML context and landscape.
Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization, quality, efficiency and professionalism.
Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.
Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents.
Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.
Proven ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads.
Result driven-demonstrate ownership and accountability.
Identifies bottlenecks and drives improvements.
Work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision.
Demonstrate open, clear, concise and professional communication.
Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers and customer.
Work according to a strict set of procedures within the provided timelines.

Other Information

This position is located on-site in San Diego, CA . It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation.

A flexible workplace arrangement may be available to employees working in roles conducive to remote work (up to two days a week).
Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.
Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves for entire duration of shift.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch.

EOE AA M/F/Veteran/Disability

Potential candidates will meet the education and experience requirements provided on the above job description and excel in completing the listed responsibilities for this role. All candidates receiving an offer of employment must successfully complete a background check band any other tests that may be required.

All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.

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The current base annual salary range for this role is currently:

$136,500-227,500

Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.

The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US.

All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

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