Regional Development Applications Engineer (SPTS)

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 SPTS division provides advanced wafer processing solutions—including etch, deposition and vapor-based technologies—designed for R&D through high-volume production. With a global presence and strong customer support network, SPTS helps manufacturers across industries improve performance, yield and cost-efficiency. It also offers comprehensive service and spare parts through a worldwide network of service centers and qualified local agents.

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.

Role Description

Working as part of our Etch, CVD, PVD Business unit team, the primary responsibilities of this role will be to perform field engineering & application activities related to PVD semiconductor thin film technology.

This will involve working on several different process module types and a huge range of applications at multiple customer sites, collecting data, investigating problems & generating new processes to meet the customer requirements, as well as an element of hardware testing. Additional responsibilities would include writing technical reports for both internal and external use.

This role will also involve advising both KLA field teams and other members of the team on escalation status, application development and process tuning

This position will be based in Hsinchu, Taiwan and reporting directly into Senior Manager RPM. Role will involve travel with in Taiwan and to over-seas customer sites.

Key Duties

Problem Solving & Trouble Shooting

- Supporting key customer escalations in the region
- Data collection & analysis, reporting
- Detailed problem solving using 8D methodology

Product & Process development

- Identifying weaknesses in the product based on customer needs
- Develop solutions on site with customers for those needs using existing toolset
- Where outside toolset capability, feeding back customer developments, engagement & needs to UK business unit
- Develop new processes in line with KLA roadmaps
- Plan, work and implement solutions in a safe, logical and timely manner

Tool Qualification

- Together with the field team obtaining field acceptance on customer’s sites
- Experience directly with PVD, Etch, CVD process development & applications, with some PVD hardware knowledge in semiconductor industry would be highly advantageous.
- Ability to communicate clearly in verbal and written forms with HQ engineering teams
- Has some industry experience (ideally Semiconductor)
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) in a chemistry, physics, or other relevant field
- A Creative and innovative approach to problem solving leading to novel but practical solutions.
- The foresight and ability to collect, filter and analyze data to solve complex problems.
- Good analytical skills including the ability to be hands on in fabs, measuring films, coordinating activities from experiment to result & reporting
- The ability to work both autonomously and as part of team.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years

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.