KLA Tencor

Product Installation Engineer RAPID - Extensive 90% + Travel Required

KLA Tencor • $66K — $97K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree with 0 years or Bachelor's degree with 2 years related experience required
  • Strong knowledge of electronics, optics, mechanical, electro-mechanical, and electro-optical systems
  • Experience with high-vacuum systems preferred
  • Proficient in computer systems and applications (Windows, Unix, Microsoft Office)
  • Excellent analytical and troubleshooting abilities
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Highly self-motivated and detail-oriented

Responsibilities

  • Install and qualify advanced KLA systems at customer sites globally
  • Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues during installation
  • Perform setup, alignment, calibration, and verification of semiconductor equipment
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to verify system performance
  • Provide clear status updates to stakeholders throughout the installation process
  • Complete installation documentation accurately and on time
  • Secure warranty sign-off on newly installed tools

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • 401(K) with company matching
  • Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
  • Tuition reimbursement and student debt assistance
  • Development and career growth opportunities
  • Paid time off and company holidays
  • Family care and bonding leave
Full Job Description

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. KLA Instruments™ is our instrumentation division, which designs advanced metrology and inspection instruments used in both R&D and production across industries and academia. Our tools—ranging from optical profilers and nano-indenters to thin film and defect inspection systems—enable precise surface and material analysis. We partner closely with customers to enable R&D, improve yield, optimize processes, and reduce production costs through innovative hardware, software and application expertise.

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.


*Selected candidate must be able to work 6 days/week, 10 hours/day


Be the Face of KLA Technology at Our Customer Sites Worldwide


At KLA, our Product Installation Engineers (IEs) are the critical first connection between our customers and their new, highly advanced equipment. This role is instrumental in shaping the customer’s first—and lasting—impression of KLA products, services, and technical excellence.


As a Product Installation Engineer, you will lead the on‑time installation and qualification of complex capital equipment, ensuring smooth handoff, predictable cycle times, and a successful warranty start. You’ll represent KLA directly with customers, taking ownership of installation performance and customer satisfaction.


What You’ll Do:


  • Install and qualify advanced KLA systems at customer sites globally, ensuring installations are completed on schedule and meet quality standards
  • Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues during installation by identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions
  • Perform setup, alignment, calibration, and verification of highly complex semiconductor capital equipment
  • Collaborate cross‑functionally with KLA regions, engineering, and customer teams to verify system performance and transfer tool ownership
  • Provide clear status updates to all stakeholders throughout the installation process
  • Complete installation documentation and administrative requirements accurately and on time
  • Secure warranty sign‑off on newly installed tools


How You’ll Work:


  • Operate independently while following documented procedures, exercising sound technical judgment within defined guidelines
  • Work under guidance from managers and senior IEs, with increasing autonomy as experience grows
  • Engage effectively in cross‑cultural and cross‑functional environments
  • Extensive travel domestically and internationally to support customer installations worldwide


What You Bring (Qualifications):


  • Strong knowledge of electronics, optics, mechanical, electro‑mechanical, and electro‑optical systems
  • Experience with high‑vacuum systems strongly preferred
  • Comfort working with computer systems, operating systems, and networking (Windows, Unix, or similar environments)
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
  • Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and troubleshooting abilities
  • Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Highly self‑motivated, organized, and detail‑oriented
  • Able to work effectively across cultures, functions, and geographies

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years

Total Rewards

Base Pay Range: $31.78 - $47.00 Per Hour Primary Location: USA-AZ-Phoenix-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.



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.



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
NASDAQ

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