KLA Tencor

Senior Instrumentation Software Engineer

KLA Tencor$105K — $180K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of OOP, design patterns, and data structures.
  • Understanding of functional programming concepts and tradeoffs.
  • Proven experience delivering high-quality software solutions.
  • Proficiency in C++, Python, or Java for production code.
  • Experience with large systems and subsystem interfaces.
  • Skilled at translating abstract problems into detailed requirements.
  • Familiarity with ETL pipelines and data visualization techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the design, development, testing, and rollout of software solutions for KLA inspection machines.
  • Understand system functionality to address customer needs through software solutions.
  • Conduct trade-off studies to develop concepts for next-gen systems and propose risk mitigation plans.
  • Collaborate with distributed teams to gather requirements and develop software solutions.
  • Lead and mentor engineers throughout the product development cycle.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • 401(K) plan with company matching contributions.
  • Employee stock purchase program (ESPP).
  • Tuition reimbursement and student debt assistance.
  • Comprehensive wellness benefits including EAP.
  • Generous paid time off and paid company holidays.
  • Family care and bonding leave options.
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. 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.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications
Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Join KLA, where we build groundbreaking industrial systems indispensable for semiconductor manufacturing! Our technology integrates sophisticated image acquisition and processing hardware, firmware, software, and high-performance computing (HPC).

Are you a software engineer who thrives with solving high-reaching problems? Join us and make a difference! This role you are instrumental in leading the development sophisticated KLA products. These semi sophisticated products which include robotics, high performance and distributed computing, data analytics and machine control.

Job Responsibilities:
  • As a Senior Engineer, drive the design, development, testing and roll out of software solutions that improve the capabilities of the KLA inspection machines.
  • Develop an understanding of how the system works and be able to provide software solutions for critical customer gaps or issues.
  • Develop and evaluate concepts and designs for the next generation systems by conducting trade-off studies, identifying risk items, and proposing mitigation plans.
  • Engage with a geographically distributed team and with systems, hardware and service engineers as needed to understand requirements and use-cases and to build software solutions that meet these requirements.
  • Lead and mentor other engineers through the product development cycle.

Qualification, but not limited to:
  • Excellent background with deep conceptual and applied knowledge of OOP, design patterns, data structures, distributed systems, multi-threaded and multi-process programming.
  • Understanding of functional programming including tradeoffs vs. OOP.
  • Proven ability to navigate sophisticated technical, functional and non-functional requirements to deliver high quality solutions.
  • Proficiency in writing, deploying, and maintaining production code in C++, Python or Java.
  • Experience working in large systems composed of different types of subsystems and interfaces between them.
  • Ability to take abstract problem statements and detail them out into concrete requirements and design through collaborative discussions.
  • Experience working with large amount of data in ETL pipelines, storage, or visualization type use cases.


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: $105,900.00 - $180,000.00 Annually

Primary Location: USA-MI-Ann Arbor-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
NASDAQ

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