KLA Tencor

Algorithm Engineer

KLA Tencor$136K — $231K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, or image processing.
  • Familiar with deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
  • Hands-on experience training and deploying ML/AI models in products.
  • Ability to write model architectures from scratch and modify loss functions.
  • Advanced degrees preferred: Doctorate, Master's, or Bachelor's with related work experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, modify, and diagnose complex ML and DL algorithms.
  • Invent, prototype, and deploy new image processing algorithms.
  • Engage in hands-on object-oriented and functional programming.
  • Communicate effectively in written and verbal forms.
  • Collaborate independently and within a team environment.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(K) with company matching.
  • Employee stock purchase program (ESPP).
  • Student debt assistance and tuition reimbursement.
  • Wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP).
Full Job Description

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 scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The LS-SWIFT Division of KLA’s Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to deliver market-leading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors. Customers from the foundry, logic, memory, automotive, MEMS, advanced packaging and other markets rely upon high-sample wafer inspection information generated by LS-SWIFT products. LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable cost-effective patterned wafer defect detection for the industry’s most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leading-edge foundry, logic, DRAM, and NAND fabs. SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver all-wafer-surface (frontside, backside, and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC, MEMS, and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs. LS-SWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US, Singapore, India and Germany, and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia, Europe and North America.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Are you a computer vision engineer or researcher who loves working on challenging unsolved problems in a dynamic and collaborative environment?  Have you worked on taking a computer vision problem from invention to product?  KLA could be for you.  Come join our high performing team consisting of PhDs, machine vision and algorithm engineers building the next generation of AI enabled semiconductor inspection equipment.  The successful candidate will grow their career in the LS-SWIFT algorithms group in California.

Responsibilities :

  • Designing, developing, modifying and diagnosing complex ML and DL algorithms
  • Ability to invent, prototype and deploy new image processing algorithms and ideas
  • Hands-on experience in object-oriented and functional programming
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.

Qualifications:

  • Strong background in one or more of the following areas: machine Learning, deep learning, computer vision, image processing 
  • Familiar with one of common deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch
  • Hands-on experience with training ML/AI models that have been deployed in a product
  • Ability to write model architectures from scratch, modify loss functions

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

Base Pay Range: $136,300.00 - $231,700.00 Annually

Primary Location: USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA

KLA’s total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits, 401(K) including company matching, employee stock purchase program (ESPP), student debt assistance, tuition reimbursement program, development and career growth opportunities and programs, financial planning benefits, wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP), paid time off and paid company holidays, and family care and bonding leave.

Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed reflects the pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting. Actual pay depends on several factors, including state minimum pay wage rates, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education level or training. We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable. If applicable, your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

               

About KLA Tencor

KLA Corporation is a global capital equipment company that provides process control solutions for semiconductor and related industries. The Company's products are also used in a number of other high technology industries, including the packaging, light emitting diode (LED), power device and compound semiconductor markets. Its products and services are used by bare wafer, integrated circuit (IC), lithography reticle (reticle or mask) and disk manufacturers around the world. The Company's inspection and metrology products and related offerings are categorized in various groups, including Chip Manufacturing, Wafer Manufacturing, Reticle Manufacturing, LED, Power Device and Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing, Data Storage Media/Head Manufacturing, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Manufacturing, and General Purpose/Lab Applications.
Learn more about KLA Tencor
Size
11,300 employees
Market Cap
$52 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.3 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
+21.5%
Revenue
$6 billion
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