KLA Tencor

Applications Development Engineer

KLA Tencor$120K — $204K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Doctorate degree or equivalent experience, or a Master's degree with 2 years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree with 3 years of experience.
  • Experience in optical thin film measurement technology.
  • Strong background in data analysis and software development.
  • Ability to develop training materials and provide application support.
  • Proficiency in managing customer-facing activities and product demonstrations.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support metrology systems applications.
  • Characterize and refine next-generation optical thin film measurement products.
  • Design and analyze test plans, documenting findings in application notes.
  • Create and disseminate training materials for global support teams.
  • Engage with customers during tool demonstrations and manage performance evaluations.
  • Conduct experiments to validate product performance during ramp phases.
  • Develop optimized recipes for complex optical applications.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • 401(K) plan with company matching contributions.
  • Tuition reimbursement and student debt assistance programs.
  • Employee stock purchase program (ESPP).
  • Comprehensive wellness benefits including employee assistance programs.
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 Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) Division provides industry leading metrology solutions for worldwide semiconductor IC manufacturers. The FaST Division portfolio of metrology products includes hardware and software solutions for optical film thickness, optical critical dimension (CD), composition, and resistivity measurement systems. These products are essential for the IC manufacturers as they provide critical metrology capabilities for the development and implementation of their advanced IC processes. The FaST division is committed to support our customers to achieve performance entitlement of our solution and we effectively partner with our customers from their early research and development phase to the high volume in-line manufacturing implementation specific for their process needs. The division consists of a global team located in US, Israel, China, and India.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Responsibilities

Work closely with division different organizations including engineering, sales and marketing within K-T and with customer engineers outside K-T and provide high level applications support of precise metrology systems.

Product development:

Characterize next generation optical thin film measurement products.

Design test plans, collect and analyze data, publish results and recommendations in the form of applications notes, best known methods.

Form training materials and transfer new production knowledge and application capabilities to worldwide apps support team.

Work closely with division system and algo team and be creative to develop software offline tools for data analysis, feature development.

Customer support:

Manage head-to-head (H2H) activities at customer sites and in-house customer demonstration. Conduct new tool demonstrations to showcase tool performance and develop use cases to help drive tool sales.

Design experiments to characterize tool/subcomponent performance, demonstrate product value in alpha testing, beta testing and pilot tool support in the ramp phase, thereby enabling product penetration/adoption at customer facilities at customers site.

Develop recipes to model complex optical applications and optimize tool performance;

Provide escalation support to onsite field service engineer; leading and coordinating remote/local troubleshooting;

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) or work experience of 0 years , Master's Level Degree or work experience of 2 years , Bachelor's Level Degree or work experience of 3 years

Base Pay Range: $120,000.00 - $204,000.00 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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