System Design Engineer
KLA
About the Role
The LS-SWIFT division engineering team is seeking a highly motivated individual to join a growing team of system engineers. This role focuses on developing and sustaining state-of-the-art wafer inspection equipment, responding to challenges, and providing customer-focused solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and drive resolution of complex customer escalations by coordinating cross-functional division teams, including R&D, Applications, Software, Hardware, and Service.
- Ensure root cause identification and effective implementation of corrective actions.
- Provide sustained engineering support for field systems to enable successful customer adoption, long-term product sustainability, and high customer satisfaction.
- Define, document, and review system specifications and technical requirements, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps.
- Contribute to system design and development activities, including architecture definition, performance characterization, and validation of advanced metrology systems.
- Act as a system-level technical owner for customer support by understanding customer requirements, translating them into actionable technical expectations, and ensuring solutions meet performance, quality, and reliability objectives.
- Drive technical excellence for alpha, beta, and mature product engagements.
- Work closely with the larger system engineering group on roadmap projects.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Strong understanding of Systems Engineering principles.
- Experience developing, deploying, and supporting complex systems in the semiconductor industry.
- Demonstrated technical depth in one or more areas: optical systems, opto-mechanics, mechatronics, electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering.
- Solid foundation in physics, mathematics, and computational methods.
- Strong analytical and system-level problem-solving skills.
- Experience with data processing, analytics, and statistical analysis.
- Proficiency in Python and MATLAB is a plus.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Ability to take ownership of technically ambiguous problems.
- Ability to lead or support customer escalations.
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.