Manager Software Development

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.

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 LSSWIFT Division of KLAs Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for highvolume semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to deliver marketleading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors. Customers from the foundry logic memory automotive MEMS advanced packaging and other markets rely upon highsample wafer inspection information generated by LSSWIFT products. LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable costeffective patterned wafer defect detection for the industrys most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leadingedge foundry logic DRAM and NAND fabs. SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver allwafersurface (frontside backside and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC MEMS and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs. LSSWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US Singapore India and Germany and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia Europe and North America.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Essential Responsibilities:

• As a SW manager in this group you will build and lead a team of smart software engineers to help our wafer inspection products to achieve the next level of performance through superior technology and the latest in software practices & machine learning. You will bring your proven experience in leading a team of engineers to conceive design and deploy robust/scalable software for highvolume production and real time applications.
• With respect to the value add for the position offered expect you to:
  • Drive incremental value and make technical decisions that support strategic objectives
  • Leverage prior experience to advise against suboptimal approaches and onetime hacks quickly pushing the team towards generic and robust solutions
  • Transform customer and business requirements into scalable and complete technical solutions backed by deep analysis in understanding
  • Easily work with legacy frameworks while embracing and implementing modern technologies and frameworks
  • Communicate effectively on technical and business topics
• Acquire and demonstrate technical knowledge of LSSWIFT product software
• Meet product timelines with good quality software
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an indepth evaluation of various factors
• Ensuring that detailed designs code and unit tests are consistent robust futureproof and scalable. Understand and make design and architectural improvements on existing software.
• Providing technical expertise to the estimation process. Create project plan update higher management regularly on the progress.
• Acquire knowledge of key use cases in Patterned wafer inspection
• In conjunction with the Product Manager identify highlight review and mitigate technical risks
• Contribute to the continued improvement of the organizations development procedures by looking for opportunities for improvement and proposing ideas for solution
• Collaborate with crossdivisional and crossfunctional teams across geographical zones to develop / deliver software solutions

Essential skills:

• Good technical problemsolving skills
• Strong understanding of Design patterns and Programming skills using any one of highlevel languages C# C Java
• Strong knowledge of Architecture patterns
• Good knowledge on open source software and varied technologies (web and thick client) and have a good understanding on the strengths and weaknesses of software architectures of these technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preferred work experiences in semiconductor processing / equipment industry or product companies
• Must have excellent communication organizational analytical leadership and interpersonal skills
• Must be selfdriven and a strong team player
• Good understanding on High Performance computing and related technologies/aids (CPU GPU performance comparison and related toolkits) along with Machine learning basics

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Masters or Doctorate in computer science Math or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• 10 years of relevant engineering experience
• 2 years people management experience preferred

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.

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