Regional Development Applications Engineer

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Responsibilities

Work closely with division different organizations including engineering sales and marketing within K-T and with customer engineers outside K-T and provide high level applications support of complex Overlay measurement systems.

Customer support:

Manage in-house customer demonstrations and head-to-head (H2H) activities at customer sites. Conduct new tool demonstrations to showcase tool performance and develop use cases to help drive tool sales.

Design experiments to characterize tool/subcomponent performance demonstrate product value in alpha testing beta testing and pilot tool support in the ramp phase thereby enabling product penetration/adoption at customer facilities at customers site.

Develop recipes to model complex optical applications and optimize tool performance;

Provide escalation support to onsite field service engineer; leading and coordinating remote/local troubleshooting;

Product development:

Characterize next generation state-of-the art overlay measurement products.

Design test plans collect and analyze data publish results and recommendations in the form of applications notes best known methods.

Form training materials and transfer new production knowledge and application capabilities to worldwide apps support team.

Work closely with division system and algo team and be creative to develop software offline tools for data analysis feature development.

Focused customers:

Worldwide travel (> 50%) is required.

Qualifications:

Candidate must haveMS or PHD in Physics or related engineering fields such as optics materials science and microelectronics.

Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

Superb communication and interpersonal skills.

Must be self-driven and independent while still being a strong team player.

Proficient in the English language and working effectively with different cultures.

Matlab/Python experience is a plus.

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

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

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