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. The Customer Engagement (CE) division is a field-based group of technical experts who partner closely with customers to provide a comprehensive portfolio of KLA products that support yield improvement from R&D through high-volume production. The team helps align KLA’s solutions with customer needs, supports product performance, identifies new opportunities and gathers insights to guide future innovation—all while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.

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.

General Job Description The role develops and implements product applications for existing and post-shipment products to maximize customer value. It covers characterization/testing, product integration and optimization, customer-site system development, diagnosis/problem resolution, collaboration with software/systems/hardware engineering, technical knowledge transfer, BKMs/application notes, and demo/test reporting.

Expectations

• Implement detailed characterization or field-test plans with supervision and support specification of tool requirements.
• Develop advanced recipe/design knowledge and apply product BKMs, integration, deployment, and data-analysis capabilities at the customer site.
• Understand tool capabilities and troubleshooting and contribute to product/tool updates at the customer site.
• Begin taking ownership of feature updates, measurement adjustments, code reviews, integration and testing.
• Respond to routine customer requests, maintain field-report knowledge, and support higher-level engineers on customer-site issues.
• Investigate new features for the assigned product/customer as needs evolve.
• Drive smaller team efforts such as simpler 7-step/MFG issues and regularly contribute to cross-functional engineering discussions.
• Communicate effectively across engineering disciplines and give technical presentations to peers/managers

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Level Degree or work experience of 0 years , Bachelor's Level Degree or work experience of 2 years

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.