Company Overview
KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.
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 Broadband Plasma Division (BBP) provides market-leading patterned wafer optical inspection systems for leading-edge IC manufacturing. Logic, foundry, and memory customers depend on BBP products to detect yield-critical defects for process debug and excursion monitoring at advanced process nodes. BBP flagship products include the 29xx and 39xx series which leverage Broadband Plasma technology to capture a wide range of defects with ultimate sensitivity at the optical inspection speeds needed for inline defect monitoring.
Job Description/Preferred Qualifications
Associated Specialist, Software technology
This person must be academically sound and possess strong technical abilities in working both Core Business logic, User interface of On-Tool and Off-tool analysis software.
Strong SW engineering fundamentals, Problem Solving, Analytical and Programming Skills (C++, C#, and Python)
Proven expertise in Object Oriented Design and Architecture. Should be capable of mentoring engineer in SOLID design principles.
Strong in programming fundamentals, Passionate about writing clean unit testable code.
Expertise in C++/C#.
Proven expertise in modern web development using Angular, with strong hands‑on experience in: Asynchronous programming paradigms such as RxJS, Observables, Promises, and async/await
Designing responsive, performant user interfaces with a focus on clean component design and maintainability
Ensuring robust error handling, data flow consistency, and UI reliability in asynchronous workflows