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Job Summary:
Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. is a next-generation battery materials company focused on powering the transition to clean energy. The Staff Applied ML Engineer will build and deploy manufacturing intelligence systems and machine learning models to enhance manufacturing operations and improve decision-making processes.
Responsibilities:
• Build in-house production systems that ingest plant telemetry, live data feeds, event logs, quality data, maintenance history, and operational context to improve manufacturing prediction and closed-loop response
• Reconstruct equipment and process behavior from raw data and surface meaningful deviations between expected and actual execution
• Develop systems that identify process drift, classify fault patterns, and quantify operational risk before failures, downtime, or quality losses fully materialize
• Turn raw manufacturing signals into reliable services and applications that improve uptime, yield, and execution speed
• Build and deploy machine learning models for anomaly detection, fault classification, process monitoring, quality prediction, forecasting, and related manufacturing use cases
• Develop models that connect recipe conditions, process parameters, equipment behavior, and intermediate process results to downstream product quality and performance outcomes
• Build feedforward and feedback models that use upstream signals, in-process data, and downstream results to improve decisions during execution
• Apply AI models and agentic workflows only where they materially improve engineering execution, diagnosis, knowledge retrieval, or workflow automation
• Build hybrid solutions that combine deterministic engineering logic, statistical methods, optimization, machine learning, and foundation models where each adds the most value
• Convert model outputs into practical operational logic that supports triage, escalation, intervention, and action
• Design and deploy production-grade APIs, model services, pipelines, and internal tools that are reliable enough for day-to-day plant use
• Build workflows for feature generation, inference, event detection, and feedback into operational systems
• Partner closely with Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Controls, Quality, Data Systems, and Software teams to ensure outputs are technically sound and tied to real plant actions
• Help define the architecture and roadmap for operations intelligence across manufacturing and adjacent factory workflows
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience building production-quality software, internal applications, or data products beyond notebooks and dashboards
• Strong experience with scientific computing and machine learning libraries such as pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, statsmodels, PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, or equivalent tools
• Experience building and deploying software services, APIs, data pipelines, or internal platforms using tools such as FastAPI, Flask, SQL, Spark, Airflow, dbt, or similar technologies
• Experience working with time-series, sensor, event, equipment, MES, historian, quality, or other industrial data
• Experience training, validating, and deploying custom models for prediction, classification, anomaly detection, forecasting, optimization, or control-related use cases
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to translate ambiguous plant problems into robust technical solutions
• Experience taking technical systems from concept to deployment with measurable real-world impact
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical and operational teams
Preferred:
• Experience building models that connect process conditions or recipe parameters to downstream quality or product performance outcomes
• Experience with predictive maintenance, process monitoring, fault analysis, quality prediction, or root-cause analysis in industrial settings
• Familiarity with MES, historians, plant systems architecture, or controls-adjacent environments
• Experience with sequence modeling, multivariate analysis, optimization, simulation, or hybrid physics and data-driven approaches
• Experience using modern AI workflows, including LLMs or agentic systems, in practical engineering or operational contexts
• Manufacturing experience is a plus, but we welcome candidates from adjacent operational domains with strong applied modeling and deployment experience
Company:
We are Sila—a next generation battery materials company dedicated to accelerating energy transformation for a more sustainable future. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Alameda, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.