Regional Development Applications Engineer
KLA
About the Role
KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. The Global Products Group (GPG) is responsible for creating all of KLA’s metrology and inspection products. Central Engineering is KLA's largest engineering organization, comprised of 9 Centers-of-Excellence (CoE) applied across all product groups. This role is within Central Engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with division organizations including engineering, sales, and marketing within KLA and with customer engineers outside KLA to provide high-level applications support of complex Overlay measurement systems.
- 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, enabling product penetration/adoption at customer facilities.
- Develop recipes to model complex optical applications and optimize tool performance.
- Provide escalation support to onsite field service engineers, leading and coordinating remote/local troubleshooting.
- Characterize next-generation state-of-the-art overlay measurement products.
- Design test plans, collect and analyze data, and publish results and recommendations in the form of applications notes and best-known methods.
- Form training materials and transfer new production knowledge and application capabilities to the worldwide apps support team.
- Work closely with the division system and algo team to develop software offline tools for data analysis and feature development.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Matlab / Python experience is a plus.
Qualifications
- Candidate must have an 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.
- Working effectively with different cultures.
Minimum Qualifications
- Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience.
- Master's Level Degree and 3 years related work experience.
- Bachelor's Level Degree and 5 years related work experience.