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Job Description/Preferred Qualifications
We are seeking a Systems & UX Engineer who can combine strong backend engineering fundamentals with thoughtful user experience design to deliver fast reliable and intuitive this role you will build end-to-end product experiencesfront-end APIs and systems integrationswhile ensuring performance accessibility and maintainability in production environments.
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End Product Engineering
Design and build user-facing applications and internal tools with a focus on clarity usability and responsiveness.
Develop backend services and APIs that support scalable reliable application experiences.
Translate user needs into well-scoped features prototypes and production implementations.
UX Design & Front-End Engineering
Build modern accessible UI components and flows using established design patterns and UX best practices.
Collaborate with stakeholders to refine user journeys information architecture and interaction design.
Implement performance-oriented front-end practices (rendering efficiency caching lazy loading and instrumentation).
Systems Performance & Reliability
Optimize end-to-end performance across client API and backend systems; measure and improve p95 latency and responsiveness.
Implement observability (logs metrics traces) and dashboards for critical user journeys and services.
Contribute to operational excellence through automated testing CI/CD and production readiness practices.
Integration & Interoperability
Integrate with enterprise services (authentication authorization data services and workflow systems).
Design secure maintainable integration points with clear contracts and versioning strategies.
Documentation & Collaboration
Document system behavior UX guidelines and engineering standards; create reusable components and templates.
Work effectively in cross-functional teams partnering with engineering product and business stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Human-Computer Interaction or a related field with 5 years of relevant experience; OR a Masters/PhD with 3 years of relevant experience.
Strong experience building production-grade web applications including front-end engineering and backend/API development.
Proficiency with modern web technologies (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript React or similar frameworks) and backend development (e.g. Python/Node/Java).
Strong understanding of UX principles accessibility standards and responsive design patterns.
Experience with performance optimization monitoring and debugging across distributed systems.
Experience with CI/CD version control (Git) and software engineering best practices.
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing dashboards or rich data/AI-driven interfaces (search copilots analytics and workflow tools).
Experience with design systems component libraries and UX research/validation techniques.
Experience with authentication/authorization patterns (SSO/OAuth RBAC) and secure API design.
Experience with observability tooling and SRE practices for user-facing services (SLOs alerts incident response).
Experience with microservices message queues and distributed system patterns.
What Success Looks Like (First 6-12 Months)
User experiences that are measurably faster more intuitive and easier to adoptvalidated through feedback and product metrics.
Reliable services and APIs with strong test coverage clear observability and predictable deployments.
A reusable component/design system that accelerates feature delivery while maintaining UX consistency.
Reduced friction in critical workflows through thoughtful interaction design and performance improvements.
Note: Technology choices may vary by team needs; candidates should be comfortable learning and adapting to new tools.
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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