Systems Engineer (m/f/d)

Company Overview

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device, or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards, and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research, and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation, and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists, and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting, and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group/Division

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 scientists, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The RAPID division is the world-leading provider of reticle inspection solutions for the semiconductor industry. The company provides inspection solutions to both the mask shops and the semiconductor fabs to ensure that lithography yields are consistently high thus enabling cost-effective manufacturing.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Development of leading edge technology to advance KLA’s mask metrology system
• Define optimized solutions based on customer’s requirements and use case definitions
• Analysis of system requirements, concept development, and definition of system’s key performance indicators
• In-depth system characterization, and error budget creation and analysis to find new approaches
• Own and drive the full development cycle for sub-system components through the complete development process cycle self-sufficiently
• Play a crucial role in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams (mechanics, electronics, software, algorithmics)
• Support others (in-house, production, and at customer site) in technical questions
• Ready to Fly & Fix for supporting critical customer escalations

Minimum Qualifications

• Physicist/Engineer with a master’s degree or higher education, preferably with specialization in metrology and system design
• At least 3 years of experience in systems development, preferably in the semiconductor industry, with knowledge in optics
• Experience with positioning systems and interferometry metrology
• Strong analytical thinking and affinity for structured approaches
• Knowledge of error model approaches
• Experience in data analysis, good programming skills, preferably in Matlab or Python
• Good command of English, both spoken and written
• Enjoy working in an international team
• Readiness to travel (up to ~40% possible) mainly due to Fly & Fix escalations

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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