Jobs at KLA

Performs setup, calibration, testing, troubleshooting, repair, and rework of electrical, optomechanical, and mechanical assemblies and systems. Develops test methods and specifications from technical drawings, prepares reports, recommends solutions, and assists with specialized test equipment. The role requires independent work in a cleanroom environment, collaboration across teams, technical documentation, and occasional extended hours, weekends, and physical handling of equipment.

The Sr. FPGA Engineer designs and implements FPGA and firmware for E-beam inspection systems, collaborates with teams on performance specifications, and maintains technical documentation.

Designs and develops complex mechatronic systems for semiconductor metrology equipment. Responsibilities include precision motion system design, motor and air-bearing development, CFD-based thermal and flow analysis, data collection, calibration, scripting, hardware testing, system integration, troubleshooting, experimental validation, and translating customer requirements into test plans and robust hardware designs.

Designs and validates sophisticated optical imaging systems for semiconductor inspection and metrology. Responsibilities include optical modeling, tolerance analysis, alignment, imaging performance validation, hands-on laboratory problem solving, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The role requires expertise in imaging aberrations, Fourier optics, polarization, radiometry, CodeV or LightTools, and intermediate MATLAB or Python skills. International travel of up to 20% may be required.

Leads an Applications Engineering team supporting semiconductor metrology products across characterization, application development, product qualification, and customer engagements. Responsibilities include developing measurement recipes and models, designing experiments, supporting demonstrations and evaluations, delivering technical training, documenting best practices, transferring knowledge globally, and collaborating with engineering, product management, sales, marketing, service, and customers to advance product roadmaps.

Lead software development programs for semiconductor wafer inspection systems, coordinating software, systems, algorithm, applications, hardware, and firmware teams. Manage product integration, customer requirements, risks, schedules, KPIs, and cross-functional readiness across marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, and service. Support new product introduction from inception through delivery while ensuring performance, reliability, cost, manufacturability, and serviceability goals.

Tests, calibrates, troubleshoots, repairs, and performs rework on electro-mechanical assemblies, wafer and reticle handlers, and integrated systems. Maintains tool schedules, supports alignment milestones and tool progression, develops testing methods, uses measurement equipment, and prepares technical reports with recommended solutions. The role requires independent judgment, cross-functional collaboration, technical training support, and the ability to work in a cleanroom and extended-hour environment.

Develop and maintain optical testing facilities for semiconductor inspection product development. Build and align lasers and test equipment in cleanrooms, create assembly and alignment procedures, collect and analyze test data, present results, manage hardware vendors, troubleshoot fixtures, and travel internationally to vendor and Singapore manufacturing sites.

Develop and implement applications for semiconductor inspection products, supporting new product introduction, characterization, alpha and beta testing, pilot tools, customer-site systems, product diagnosis, and issue resolution. Collaborate with software and systems engineering, conduct customer demonstrations and technical training, document test results and best practices, and produce reports for internal and customer review. The role requires extensive travel and independent project ownership.

Lead and grow a Diagnostics and Calibration software team supporting EUV reticle inspection systems. Provide hands-on technical leadership, architecture oversight, people management, delivery execution, and cross-functional collaboration with hardware, physics, manufacturing, and service teams. Guide multi-language software development, CI/CD, reliability improvements, root-cause analysis, and integration. Explore AI, generative AI, and agentic tools to improve diagnostics, calibration, automation, developer productivity, and data analysis. Travel to global sites and customer locations 10–20% of the time.

Diagnose, troubleshoot, repair, and reverse-engineer complex PCBAs and analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits. Perform board-level failure analysis, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and ECO support. Develop repair plans, technical documentation, and supplier training while collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, service, supply chain, and external vendors. Travel to Singapore and China for escalations as needed.

Lead opto-mechanical development activities across semiconductor inspection programs. Manage schedules, milestones, materials, supplier activities, build readiness, risks, dashboards, and reporting. Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and external vendors; qualify suppliers, track performance, resolve material impacts, and support engineering changes and hardware releases. Drive cross-functional execution, process improvements, and manufacturing readiness for complex hardware development programs.

Develop and release FPGA firmware for embedded sensing, communication, and high-performance mixed-signal systems. Responsibilities include requirements definition, RTL design, simulation testbench development, timing analysis and closure, verification, debugging, laboratory testing, technical documentation, and collaboration with hardware, software, systems, optical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering teams.

Develop software for next-generation semiconductor metrology systems, including emulation tools, testing, debugging, performance optimization, and maintenance. Translate requirements into robust designs, contribute to architecture and code reviews, and collaborate with systems, hardware, algorithm, and applications engineers globally. The role requires C# and C++, object-oriented programming, multithreading, WPF GUI development, image processing knowledge, and strong analytical and debugging skills.

Operate, calibrate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair GCMS instruments in a laboratory environment. Prepare samples, conduct analytical testing, interpret data, quantify impurities, perform materials outgassing experiments, document results, manage laboratory inventory, and support sampling kit logistics. The role requires collaboration with chemists and internal customers, accurate turnaround of manufacturing samples, and flexibility for day or swing shifts.

Support integration, calibration, qualification, troubleshooting, and manufacturing readiness of advanced semiconductor inspection systems. Perform system bring-up, alignment, testing, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and performance analysis. Collaborate cross-functionally to resolve manufacturing and field escalations, improve cycle time and yield, transfer new products into manufacturing, evaluate manufacturability, document procedures, and train technical personnel.

Lead end-to-end opto-mechanical design projects: define requirements, perform conceptual and detailed CAD (Creo), run FEA/hand calculations, do tolerance stack-ups and GD&T, prototype, integrate and test systems, and support release to manufacturing for precision, vacuum-capable mechanisms.

Develop and support semiconductor wafer inspection applications at customer fabrication facilities. Translate customer needs into product solutions, feature requirements, test plans, data analyses, application notes, and best-known methods. Demonstrate tools and features during evaluations, beta testing, and production ramps; investigate yield issues; develop inspection solutions; and communicate product value and use cases to engineering, marketing, and sales teams.

Leads systems engineering for next-generation eBeam semiconductor inspection and imaging systems across the product lifecycle. Defines requirements, architecture, interfaces, performance budgets, and technical roadmaps; drives integration, validation, optimization, and technical risk resolution. Coordinates multidisciplinary engineering teams across hardware, software, optics, electronics, manufacturing, service, and applications. Supports customer deployments, resolves critical issues, mentors engineers, and translates semiconductor customer needs into product requirements.

Drive enterprise IDeliver adoption, governance, operational health, Spec Management, and continuous improvement. Coordinate cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Service, Marketing, Operations, IT, and regional teams. Monitor KPIs, manage risks and dependencies, develop executive dashboards, standardize processes, support training and rollouts, and identify automation and AI-enabled opportunities to improve customer workflows and operational efficiency.