KLA Tencor

Regional Development Applications Engineer

KLA Tencor$102K — $173K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Physics or related engineering fields like optics, materials science, or microelectronics.
  • 3+ years related work experience required; less for advanced degrees.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills are a must.
  • Self-driven, independent, yet an effective team player.
  • Proficiency in English and ability to work with diverse cultures.
  • Familiarity with MATLAB or Python is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with internal teams and customer engineers for application support of Overlay measurement systems.
  • Conduct customer demonstrations and head-to-head activities to showcase tool performance.
  • Design experiments to evaluate tool performance and support product adoption at customer sites.
  • Develop modeling recipes to enhance complex optical applications.
  • Provide escalation support for troubleshooting to field service engineers.
  • Characterize next-gen overlay measurement products and design test plans to analyze data.
  • Create training materials and share knowledge with the global applications support team.

Benefits

  • Participation in performance incentive programs.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(K) plan with company matching contributions.
  • Employee stock purchase program (ESPP).
  • Student debt assistance and tuition reimbursement programs.
  • Paid time off, company holidays, and family care leave.
  • Wellness benefits, including an employee assistance program (EAP).
Full Job Description

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

·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.

Central Engineering is KLA's largest engineering organization comprised of 9 Centers-of-Excellence (CoE) in various disciplines applied across all product groups in the company. These CoE include Handling & Automation, Precision Motion Control, Sensors & Image Acquisition, Platform Design, and Packaging Engineering, among others. Talent includes over 500 engineers across global centers in Israel, China, India, and the US. Each CoE contributes not just talent and deliverables per discipline toward product programs, but also subject matter expertise, best practices, roadmaps, specialized facilities, apparatus, models, and analytics. These differentiate KLA not only in WHAT we do, but also in HOW we do it.

Responsibility: 

Work closely with division different organizations including engineering, sales and marketing within KLA and with customer engineers outside KLA and provide high level applications support of complex Overlay measurement systems.

Customer support:

Manage in-house customer demonstrations and head-to-head (H2H) activities at customer sites. 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;

Product development:

Characterize next generation state-of-the art overlay 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.

Qualifications: 

Candidate must have MS, or PHD in Physics, or related engineering fields, such as optics, materials science, and microelectronics. 

Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

Superb communication and interpersonal skills.

Must be self-driven and independent, while still being a strong team player.

Proficient in the English language, and working effectively with different cultures.

Matlab/Python experience is a plus.

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: $102,000.00 - $173,400.00 Annually

Primary Location: USA-OR-Hillsboro-Beaverton-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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