Division Application Engineer jobs at Kla in United States, Milpitas

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Play a large role in assessing products with respect to design for reliability, stability, and serviceability.
• Participate in and track the development and testing of system diagnostics and spec validation.
• Act as a two-way conduit for information transfer between the engineers responsible for developing our products and the field service teams responsible for product maintenance and support.
• Capture and analyze data from systems populations residing in remote customer sites to track performance and identify sources of detailed issues on technical, process, and people basis.
• Help develop and detail technical service procedures.
• Develop new training materials which may include written documents, video tutorials and on-line web based training.
• Respond to situations where field service engineers have failed to resolve highly technical system performance issues, by providing written plans of action by e-mail or on-site hands-on assistance at customer sites in the US, Asia, and Europe.
• Write technical reports to communicate (progression in) issues, analysis, technical assessments, system status, best-know-methods, and engineering recommendations.
• Take a proactive approach to improving service quality and profitability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record to work on sophisticated problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in depth evaluation of various factors.
• Results oriented and driven to excel.
• Enjoys teaching, troubleshooting, working with groups of people, and explaining sophisticated things as simply as possible.
• Strong analytic and data analysis skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work optimally in multidisciplinary, multicultural teams and to take a leadership role when needed.
• Quick grasp of meaningful, sophisticated technical information.
• Natural curiosity, inventiveness, and an interest in making things work better.
• Diverse Background to bring new perspectives to the team.
• Semiconductor industry experience with specialization in E-beam, Vacuum or, Motion Control
• Familiar with reliability concepts; probability distribution, MTBF, MTTR, etc

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2+ years

or at +1-408-352-2808

Maintains and coordinates daily schedules, prioritizes system usage, and supports all functions of the tool which include weekly health checks, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair, system calibrations, SW/HW upgrades, revision control, testing, debugging and data analysis of measurement performance.

Completes the initial diagnosis of any system issue. Must have the knowledge and experience to effectively work with experts in electron optics, laser, stage, loader, image computer, and algorithms to actively assist in resolving the issues.

Is expected to be a key contributor in design reviews and during the engineering / alpha builds and test phases of programs

May be required to travel to customer sites to efficiently and effectively resolve technical issues (Fly and Fix).

As part of the Systems Engineering team in our FaST Division, you will be responsible for the complete lifecycle of products from concept to deployment, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance of our cutting-edge metrology systems for Advanced Packaging.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop system architectures and characterize system performance according to requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and validate metrology systems, including hardware, software, and control systems
• Define and document system specifications to meet project requirements
• Perform detailed systems analysis to ensure optimal performance and reliability
• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to qualify systems
• Provide ongoing engineering support to ensure field systems adaption, sustainability, and customer satisfaction
• Work with Product & Program Managers to ensure project milestones met on time

Requirements:

• In-depth understanding of Systems Engineering principles with strong experience on developing complex systems in the semiconductor industry
• Outstanding skills in optical systems, opto-mechanics, mechatronics, electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering
• Strong command of general physics, math and computational skills are highly desirable
• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills in optics, precision mechanics, image processing, and motion control systems
• Experience on data processing, analytics, and statistics with programming languages such as Python and MATLAB would be a plus
• Agility and ability to thrive on a fast-paced program, take on assignments in a nonfamiliar domain, and respond quickly to internal and customer site escalations
• Demonstrated competencies of critical thinking, analysis, hands-on, teamwork, and ownership
• Ability of international travel up to 25%

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

or at +1-408-352-2808

The RAPID division is the leading provider of reticle inspection solutions for the semiconductor industry. We provide inspection solutions to both the mask shops and the semiconductor fabs to ensure that lithography yields are consistently high, enabling cost-effective manufacturing.

As a Mechanical Design Engineer, you will craft sophisticated precision mechanical and opto-mechanical inspection systems for next-generation semiconductor equipment. You will take full ownership of the design process—from requirements specification and feasibility studies to detailed design, prototyping, testing, and handoff to manufacturing.

• Lead the design, fabrication, and performance characterization of advanced mechanical systems.

• Build and maintain technical relationships with vendors.

Own the full lifecycle of mechanical design including:

• Requirements specification

• Feasibility studies Analysis and FEA modeling

• Conceptual and detailed design

• Creation of detailed drawings

• Design review presentations

• Procurement of prototype parts

• Support for prototype testing and system integration

• Handoff to manufacturing and issue resolution through all product phases

• Apply advanced knowledge of tolerance analysis, GD&T, error budgeting, and requirement flow-up/flow-down.

• Perform finite element analysis, creep and stress relaxation, modal analysis, and thermal analysis (heat transfer, gradients, transients, thermo-elastic effects).

• Select materials and resolve fabrication methods.

• Utilize 3D solid modeling CAD tools—ProE/Creo strongly preferred.

• Understand and apply mechanical manufacturing processes including machining, sheet metal fabrication, and welding.

• Strong understanding of physics and mechanics

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• Experience in semiconductor or high-tech equipment design

• Proven ability to take designs from concept through manufacturing

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

or at +1-408-352-2808

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as the central technical resource / interface with design engineering, manufacturing, technical support, quality, marketing and field as the product(s) move through the Product Life Cycle

• Proactively optimize serviceability, reduce cost-of-service through all stages of the PLC, and improve short- and long-term product service performance.

• Drive continuous improvement of system hardware, diagnostics and software, tooling, technical documentation, knowledge management, and training

• Influence early PLC designs to include features that will optimize KLA’s service business: calibrations and diagnostics, Cost of Service (CoS), reliability, design tolerances, Intellectual Property (IP) protection.

• Participate in beta and sustaining escalation efforts, analyze data from various sources, to provide a detailed action plan suitable for execution by Customer Service Engineer (CSE) and Technical Support Engineer (TSE)

• Leverage learning and knowledge across the Technical Support organization through training classes, scripts, coaching, documents and updating other knowledge capture tools

• Contribute and write technical reports to communicate issues, analysis, and best-known methods

• Work with Learning and Knowledge Services (LKS) to determine the training requirements for new products and/or upgrades. Train the trainer and teach or co-teach initial courses. Audit service training courses to ensure their quality.

• Help to define a plan, implement and optimize the spare parts that will be stocked to support field shipments. This includes taking into account reliability, diagnostics, inventory holding cost, training level and other factors

• Perform hands-on work for integration of Alpha/Beta systems, including performing serviceability validation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands on experience with EUV tools or semiconductor processing equipment. Reticle equipment experience preferred.

• Consistent track recordto work on sophisticated problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.

• Results oriented and driven to excel.

• Strong analytic and data analysis skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Ability to work efficiently in multidisciplinary, multicultural teams and to take a leadership role when needed.

• Background developing and delivering remote technical training applying virtual reality, augmented reality and video.

• 15 - 25% Travel, International & Regional

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

or at +1-408-352-2808

In this exciting role you will Lead Reliability activities and Best Practices for both New Product Development and Sustaining Product CIPs.

Additional Responsibilities will include:

• Participate in Product Life Cycle management review meetings.
• Train design engineering community, as needed, on reliability principles and techniques.
• Work with Engineering, Service and Manufacturing to develop Reliability Plans and present to Sr Management and Engineers
• Develop Reliability Block Diagrams and Allocation Models, FMECA, Analysis for new products and assemblies. Identify gaps and develop plan to close.
• Attend design reviews and provide input and assistance regarding Design for Reliability. Perform reliability data analyses using WEIBULL, MTBF, MTBI, L10, L90, etc.
• Work closely with engineering, service, manufacturing and quality organizations to collect and analyze data from engineering, manufacturing and field to track and calculate reliability metrics. Implement SW and tools to automate and simplify this analysis.
• Perform data analysis using appropriate reliability techniques such as Weibull, Duane, RGA, Reliasoft, Blocksim, etc.
• Work with engineering to identify and develop jigs, tooling, fixtures as necessary to conduct internal reliability testing on key components and assemblies as well as work with external reliability test vendors as necessary.
• Manage critical suppliers, as needed, for reliability.

Minimum Qualifications

MS in ME, Physics or other relevant Engineering discipline with 4+ years experience in Reliability Engineering and Analysis.

• Experience with reliability of Mechanical, Opto-Mechanical and electronic systems reliability.
• Good hands-on skills desirable.
• Experience with Reliability analysis tools such as Reliasoft and Blocksim

or at +1-408-352-2808

:• Design and implement sophisticated algorithms for image segmentation, classification, and defect detection tailored to our inspection systems
• Translate complex engineering challenges into generalized mathematical models and develop custom algorithmic solutions
Innovation and Execution
• Drive innovation by proposing novel approaches and writing production-level code
• Support customer deployments and ensure seamless integration of algorithmic solutions

• Operate independently while partnering with hardware teams to optimize image quality and manage error budgets based on algorithmic performance

• Develop scalable, high-performance software solutions in C++ using object-oriented programming techniques

:

• Strong foundation in image and signal processing
• Proficient in algorithm development using C++ and Python in Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with linear and non-linear optimization techniques
• Familiarity with machine learning methods for imaging applications

Soft Skills

• Outstanding problem-solving abilities and strong interpersonal skills

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 3 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and relevant professional experience of 5 years;

or at +1-408-352-2808