Sr Software Technical Program Manager jobs at Kla in United States, Milpitas

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of breakthrough product development, guiding a talented team of systems engineers and collaborating across optics, electronics, mechanics, software, and algorithms. You’ll work closely with division leadership, external partners, and customers to deliver solutions that push boundaries and exceed expectations.

What You’ll Own:

• Lead and mentor a team of systems design engineers responsible for integrating hardware and software on complex eBeam tools.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration and lead design reviews to ensure optimal system architecture.
• Spearhead next-generation product development with bold, strategic thinking and a focus on delivering winning solutions.
• Oversee prototype testing, risk assessments, and mitigation strategies that guide product lifecycle decisions.
• Support customer escalations with technical expertise and a commitment to excellence.
• Champion onboarding and development for new systems engineers, fostering a culture of growth and innovation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Deep expertise in electron optics or SEM technology, with strong foundations in physics, mathematics, and computational skills.
• 7+ years of experience in systems engineering for complex semiconductor systems.
• 3+ years of proven success in people management and team leadership.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to lead across functions and engage with global stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel globally up to 15%.

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Key responsibilities include:

• Evaluating existing and emerging markets

• Leading product lifecycle planning and customer requirements analysis

• Defining product value propositions and pricing strategies

• Driving marketing campaigns to boost product adoption and market penetration

• Conducting competitive analysis and developing strategic responses to Next Best Alternatives

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 6 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 8 years

Experience should include the following:

• Product Marketing in multi-disciplinary technology product team

• Advanced packaging process knowledge

• Delivering technical presentations;

• Semiconductor customer engagements;

• Ability to perform market analysis by compiling customer information and industry reports.

• Applications development in metrology or inspection;

• Competition analysis;

• Preparation of executive summaries;

• Willingness to travel for business up to 30% of the time.

Other qualities

• Storytelling with clear and compelling messages and strong content

• Strong communication skills and ability to conduct effective presentations under pressure

• Analytical skills, including ability to draw business conclusions from complex datasets.

• Ability to successfully drive projects with minimal intervention

• Well-organized with attention to detail.

• Hardworking, with ability & desire to work in a team environment.

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Qualifications

• Responsible for the solution design, configuration, testing and maintenance of the SAP FI/CO modules in ECC 6.0, including providing SAP expertise in FI/CO area. Experience with SAP RAR is preferred

• Experience with S/4 HANA finance transformation projects require

• Actively work with Business Resources to determine the technical solution that best meets the business requirements

• Experience and knowledge of integration points of FI/CO modules and across other SAP modules

• Responsible for Enhancements, projects as well as adhoc support to troubleshoot, investigate, analyze and solve production issues

• Responsible for working with business users and clients to gather and document business requirements for system changes and to develop solutions to satisfy business needs

• Responsible for analyzing the impact changes will have on other internal/external business application systems

• Responsible for developing all documentation related to system changes per SOX change control policies and procedures

• Review current finance and accounting business processes to determine where automation / improvements will drive efficiency. Identify process inefficiencies, recommend innovative uses of software functionality, design, implement solutions and train end-users

• This is a hybrid role based at our Global HQ in Milpitas, CA.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business (Finance), Computer Information Systems or related field

• Eight (8) years functional and technical experience with SAP FI/CO Module in ERP system, with analysis and design of business applications related to the FICO area including but not limited to: Fixed assets, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, product costing, PCA, CCA, interfaces to subsystems

• Experience with S/4 HANA Finance transformation projects is required

• Knowledge and experience with ABAP programming and SAP RAR is a plus

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate with planners, peers and executive leadership

• Previous experience in systems support activities, i.e. business to IT liaison

• Previous experience in defining system requirement and defining test scenarios

• Demonstrated high learning agility and strong analytical skills

• The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions

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What You’ll Do:

• Champion programs from concept to high-volume manufacturing and beyond.
• Build and execute strategic project plans that align scope, timelines, and resources.
• Collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, service, and marketing to drive smart decisions and impactful trade-offs.
• Own every aspect of your program—engineering, service, install, and manufacturing.
• Provide expert guidance in operational processes and technical leadership to ensure top-tier outcomes.
• Cultivate strong customer relationships and deliver solutions that exceed expectations.
• Anticipate risks and implement proactive strategies to keep projects on track.
• Lead field engagement during beta phases, aligning closely with business units and customers.
• Translate divisional goals into actionable product roadmaps.

What You Bring:

• PhD with 3+ years, Master’s with 6+ years, or Bachelor’s with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven success in developing complex systems integrating optics, electronics, motion, algorithms, and software.
• Strong leadership in matrixed environments and a collaborative mindset.
• Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal.
• Willingness to travel globally up to 15%.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and related work experience of 5 years; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 8 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 12 years

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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

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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

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Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement solutions to optimize developer inner and outer loops, including workflow automation, CI/CD pipelines, andinfrastructure-as-code(IaC).

• Continuously evaluate and integrate open source and commercial tools to improve developer experience and operational efficiency including how to best leverage Artificial Intelligence.

• Champion process improvements to increase developer intensity.

• Mentor other engineers on containers, DevOps methodologies, and infrastructure automation.

• Resolve complex issues related to platform reliability, performance, and security, both proactively and reactively in engineering and field implementations.

• Work with platform team members, software engineers, SREs, product managers, and security to translate business needs into technical solutions that evolve the platform capabilities.

• Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and evolving practices in cloud-native computing, DevOps, and techniques to continuously improve DevEx.

Preferred Qualifications

• Skilled in Linux and container platform (Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift) administration.

• Experience with virtualization technologies (KVM/QEMU, Hyper-V), virtual networking, storage provisioning and performance.

• Strong proficiency in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container-based hybrid/on-premises architectures including deployment, scaling and self-healing operations.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Tekton) andinfrastructure-as-code(Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, etc.).

• Proficient in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or similar.

• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana) and incident response processes.

• Familiarity with modern software development practices such as microservices, serverless, and event-driven architecture including multithreaded and multicore techniques.

• Strong understanding of data processing and storage technology such as SQL and NoSQL.

• Knowledgeable of and able to influence server, networking, and other hardware components.

• Ability to work effectively across teams and mentor junior engineers.

• Ability to innovate, inspire change, and influence engineering culture.

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

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, platform engineering, or SRE roles successfully working with container-based platforms and self-service infrastructure solutions.

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