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.
About KLA
With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s 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.
About Surfscan ADE Group
The Surfscan ADE group includes a team of engineers, technology development, apps engineers and product marketing focused on technology that enables wafer, IC and equipment manufacturers to develop, qualify and monitor their process tools. Defects and process non-uniformities detected on Surfscan equipment allow for early identification of yield excursions. PWG equipment provide metrology information on shape and stress for monitoring and yield improvement.
The PWG™ patterned wafer metrology platform produces comprehensive wafer shape, flatness and dual-sided nanotopography data for advanced 3D NAND, DRAM and logic manufacturers.
Responsibilities
Following standard procedures, provide field applications support to PWG and Wafersight products.
Develop field use cases; Characterize new products and/or features; Demonstrate metrology relevance to customer yield issues.
Provide field technical support in the development and implementation of customer applications dealing with PWG products and features.
Provide specific product demonstrations on all aspects of highly complex products to customers and assess potential applications to meet customer needs; prepare detailed product specifications.
The ideal candidate will possess strong technical skills, be current in the customer use case domain, have excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to work independently.
The candidate will also be required to work towards characterization of the tool/algorithm performance and provides clear feedback to the Engineering teams for product improvement.
Strong technical skills are required to understand the functionality and capabilities of these tools and for providing root cause analysis and potential solutions for customers.
Such skills include (but are not limited to) techniques for data analysis/processing, statistical analysis as well as the ability to quickly pick up and understand customer requirements and processes.
>15% travel will be required
Requirements
Candidate must have Master’s or bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Material Science, or related fields.
The ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing.
Candidate must have excellent oral and written communication, organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
Candidate must be self-driven, yet a strong team player.
Programming and scripting skills in MATLAB or Python are a plus
Minimum Qualifications
Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 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.
