To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

Group/Division

The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards for technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials. We also develop technologies for specialty processes, IC substrates, and PCB manufacturing, including etch and deposition, component inspection, and imaging and analytics. KLA’s Optical Metrology Division (OMD) delivers advanced systems for optical overlay metrology, combining hardware and software to boost yield and efficiency. Known for industry-leading accuracy, reliability, and integration, these tools are trusted by major semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

• Lead a multi-disciplinary R&D team to bring the next generation products.
• Participate in the development and testing of  systems design improvements, spec validation, and implementation of solutions.
• Gather and analyze data from systems at customer sites to identify sources of systematic or intermittent issues.
• Respond to field escalations where field service engineers have failed to resolve complex system performance problems, by providing written plans of action by e-mail, phone or on-site hands-on assistance at customer sites worldwide.
• Write technical reports to communicate issues, analysis, technical assessments, system status, best-known-methods, and engineering recommendations.
• Be able to quickly get up to speed to design and execute multi-disciplinary experiments, write and peer review detailed test plans and summary reports for system testing.
• Coordinates and performs root cause analysis to solve problems.
• Interfaces closely with service, manufacturing, engineering and marketing team to define and optimize system performance and resolve performance issues.
• Coordinate with outside vendors to perform and deliver sub-system products.
• Hands-on troubleshooting and maintaining of engineering prototype systems in division headquarters.
• Have a working knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing, optical-mechanical systems, wafer handling systems and servo control systems.
• Previous experience with yield and process control instrument systems for semiconductor industry.

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate degree in physics, or optics, or electrical engineering, OR Master's Level Degree with at least 2 years of experience, OR Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 3 years of experience.
• Must have a degree in Engineering, Physics, Material Science or related fields.
• Have excellent oral and written communication, organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Be able to clearly communicate with cross functional internal teams, division management, as well as external customers.
• Have knowledge with data analysis tools such as JMP, Matlab, Microsoft Excel.
• The candidate should be self-driven, yet a strong team player.

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.