Senior Optical 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 RAPID division is the world leading provider of reticle inspection solutions for the semiconductor industry. The company provides inspection solutions to both the mask shops and the semiconductor fabs to ensure that lithography yields are consistently high thus enabling costeffective manufacturing.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

General responsibilities are to design develop build and qualify various optical subsystems that make up the inspection tool. Specific deliverables include optical system design optical alignment methodology and analysis of various optical modules. This person will also lead the design of a custom metrology system to verify and adjust the optical performance of our primary optical system. The candidate will interact closely with the systems engineering group to define performance criteria and system level specification. During the design phase the candidate will work with hardware and software design teams following a rigorous product design protocol. Specific tasks include creating optical models statistical tolerance analysis performance predictions leading design reviews creating test procedures and selecting suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Investigate different design options and finding the best option through evaluating tolerances manufacturability light budgets and other tradeoffs.

• Translate system or subsystem requirements into optical design and manufacturing requirements.

• Perform thorough tolerancing analysis to have a complete system design with full consideration of alignment process and metrology system calibrations and optomech design limitations by working with other groups (systems ME).

• Design and implement optical alignment and metrology process test/tooling fixtures to achieve targeted optical performance.

• Follows complete design process including design reviews part procurement from vendors testing integration and release.

• Investigate issues from customers or manufacturing and provide option design solution or workaround.

• Propose optical design improvements to enhance a tool performance such as SNR or throughput or manufacturability.

• Debug and solving of any optical problems that arise with the system.

Qualifications

• Optical design in imaging and illumination systems delivering inspec performance cost and manufacturability on time.

• Statistical optical component and alignment tolerancing

• Able to create specs for precision optomechanical assemblies

• Proficiency in optical modeling software such as Code V or Zemax or LightTools

• Nonsequential ray tracing using Light Tools to model high precision optics surface scattering conduct stray light analysis

• Optical module and system build alignment and debugging

• Test stand design and build: concept error budget realization

• Knowledge with diverse optical devices and components such as objectives collimator CGH and relay optics fibers cameras lasers and detectors

• Strong understanding in optics and physics enabling to analyze complex optical phenomena

• Proficiency in computing language such as Matlab Python

Personal skills

• Proficiency in observing and responding to various scenarios and individuals maintaining effective interactions throughout work

• Ability to learn and apply new information or skills.

• Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization quality efficiency and professionalism.

• Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.

• Ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads and deadlines.

• Result drivendemonstrate ownership and accountability.

• Identifies bottlenecks and drives improvements.

• Work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision.

• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with manager coworkers and customer.

• Be able to quickly acquire technical knowledge from documentation and onthejob training and be capable of thoroughly investigating technical issues (analytically and handson in a lab).

• Strong communication and presentation skill. Must have capability to clearly communicate progress and status of assignments to colleagues key stakeholder managers via documents or presentations.

Experience

• Product development or research experience in high precision optics or optical module.

• Desired to have three to five years of professional experience in high end optical system development. Microscope experience is bonus.

• Experience in working with engineers across disciplines to solve complex problems in a timely manner.

• Experience in high precision optical tools manufacturing is bonus not mandatory.

Education

• Masters or PhD in Optical engineering (preferred) or Physics

• Highly desired to have strong background in following areas: Geometrical optics Fourier optics Lens design Radiometry Optical metrology Illumination optics Optical imaging system Optical alignment Polarization Optical aberration

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Masters Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Bachelors Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years

Base Pay Range: $114100.00 $194000.00 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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