Product Development Engineer

Company Overview

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop smartphone wearable device voicecontrolled gadget flexible screen VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles integrated circuits packaging printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15 of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists engineers data scientists and problemsolvers work together with the worlds leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrows electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group/Division

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp nextgeneration devices to volume production quickly and costeffectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design KLAs Global Products Group (GPG) which is responsible for creating all of KLAs metrology and inspection products is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist software engineers application development engineers and senior product technology process engineers. The Surfscan group includes a team of engineers technology development apps engineers and product marketing focused on technology that enables wafer IC and equipment manufacturers to develop qualify and monitor their process tools. Defects and process nonuniformities detected on Surfscan equipment allow for early identification of yield excursions. The flagship Surfscan products include the SPx platforms for wafer surface quality and wafer defect inspection tools and systems for inspection of polished wafers epi wafers and engineered substrates during the wafer fabrication process.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp nextgeneration devices to volume production quickly and costeffectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design KLAs Global Products Group (GPG) which is responsible for creating all of KLAs metrology and inspection products is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist software engineers application development engineers and senior product technology process engineers.

The Surfscan Division specializes in developing unpatterned wafer surface inspection tool that provides the sensitivity and throughput required for qualification of current and nextgeneration semiconductor wafer substrates as well as qualification and monitoring of process tools. The Surfscan system design team is supporting multiple Surfscan engineering programs and products. With the ramp up on the nextgeneration product and future product line on the near horizon we need more people to support these efforts.

The SFS system team is looking for a product development engineer for the development for next generation inspection tool. The responsibilities are:

• Transform market and customer requirements into system configurations
• Develop novel inspection solution to improve sensitivity and throughput. Design experiments to validate the ideas
• Define system error budget. Translate system requirement into sub module requirement. Work with functional team to ensure sub module requirement is met
• Collaborate with key functional groups to ensure the success of tool integration and product launch
• Own creation and of prototype test plans for entire system and complex subsystems.
• Engage with customer technical development drive team to resolve system issues at customer site or in manufacturing.
• Experience developing inspection or metrology is preferred experience with semiconductor manufacturing is preferred.
• Project management skills (scoping budgeting and scheduling) is a plus.

The ideal candidate should have deep understanding in high resolution optical design high speed sensor technology advance image / signal processing techniques statistical analysis techniques and simulation knowledge.

The candidate will need to multitask work independently and be a motivated team member. Strong written and verbal communications skills are needed for the interaction to all levels of the division customers vendors and across cultures.

Minimum Qualifications

Masters Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelors Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years

Base Pay Range: $92400.00 $157100.00 Annually

Primary Location: USACAMilpitasKLA

KLAs total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to: medical dental vision life and other voluntary benefits 401(K) including company matching employee stock purchase program (ESPP) student debt assistance tuition reimbursement program development and career growth opportunities and programs financial planning benefits wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP) paid time off and paid company holidays and family care and bonding leave.

Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed. Our pay ranges are determined by role level and location. The range displayed reflects the pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting. Actual pay depends on several factors including state minimum pay wage rates location jobrelated skills experience and relevant education level or training. We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable. If applicable your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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