About this role
To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.
Group/Division
The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards for technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials. We also develop technologies for specialty processes, IC substrates, and PCB manufacturing, including etch and deposition, component inspection, and imaging and analytics. The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) division delivers industry-leading metrology solutions essential to advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Its portfolio includes systems for measuring film thickness, critical dimensions, composition, and resistivity—key to developing and scaling next-gen IC processes. FaST partners closely with customers from early R&D through high-volume production, ensuring performance and process alignment.
What You'll Do
In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.
Responsibilities
- Development of leading-edge technology to advance KLA’s metrology systems with a focus on light sources
- Drive system characterization and error budget creation/analysis
- Derive clear actions to improve module and system performance
- Hands-on laboratory work to build, run and iterate complex optical setups
- Support in‑house production and system integration; support customers and suppliers with technical feedback
- Collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams (optics, mechanics, electronics) in an international environment
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Minimum Qualifications
Qualifications
- Master’s degree (or PhD) in Physics / Optical Engineering or a comparable technical field recommended
- 3+ year’s of relevant experience in system development and experimental engineering
- Background in plasma or laser physics is highly beneficial
- Experience with data analysis tools (e.g., MATLAB / Python)
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving mindset; ability to turn complex data into decisions
- Sense of urgency – strong desire for short time to result
- Confident communication skills in English; comfortable working across cultures and disciplines
- Occasional domestic and international travel, including to the United States, may be required as part of this role (approx. 10–15%)
- EU work permit required
About KLA
We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.
Use of AI Statement
At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.
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.