Engineering Director jobs in United States, California, Milpitas

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

located inUS California Milpitas.

Reporting to thetheDirector, Operations Engineeringwill be in charge of managing day-to-day operations and core functions of operations to achieve and maintain operational excellence. *Customer deliverables (costs, within time).

What a typical day looks like:

• Guarantee production, delivery in full, on time and in specifications, required by customers, at the most cutthroat cost.

• Define operational financial goals.

• Operational business experience including a successful performance track record managing staff and P&L.

• Establish and communicate Business Unit goals and assignments.

• Define and execute operational programs in line with strategic plans and annual operating goals.

• Meet with Executive Business at least monthly to review and evaluate KOI's.

• Attend quarterly business reviews with key customers.

• Partner with other business to establish strategic plans and goals.

• Direct and control the activities on purchasing business, production control, planning, manufacturing engineering, test engineering, maintenance, manufacturing and logistics.

• Implement appropriate HR strategies and actions to recruit and retain a qualified and motivated workforce

The experience we’re looking to add to our team,

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent experience and training.

• +8 years of management experience.

• High-volume assembly manufacturer

• Strong leadership experience

Here are a few of our preferred experiences:

• A Master’s or MBA degree is preferred

• Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma Methodologies

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the management to establish operating model, performance measurements, develop and release infrastructure solutions, drive optimize processes and organizational change across PSO organization to continuously improve the Quality, Efficiency and Productivity of the operations.

• Lead the resource allocation and planning for NPI execution per the division product roadmap. Define and drive execution of NPI work. Define scope of service requirements.

• Establish infrastructure, support plans, resources, and processes to lead the transition of PLC 6b install base into PLC 7 sustaining support.

• Top Service owner for a KLA product line, representing the service function on the staff of divisional GM.

• Play key role in the serviceability, design development, launch, and ramp of new products, to ensure Service is “ready to serve” and customer support needs are met; significantly impacting KLA Services business opportunities.

• Support the team to ensure the product meets performance in the following areas: MTBI, MTBF, cost of service, availability, measurement sensitivity and stability.

• Address the needs of released products: This includes defining CIP programs to achieve the improvements and execution of product design & performance, KLA Services Certification strategies, documentation.

• Ensure tool serviceability, and performance continue to meet customer expectations in areas such as uptime, Cost of Ownership, performance, and matching throughout the product life cycle.

• Drive directly or strongly influence all aspects of the Service Business for a key product line.

• Collaborate with KLA service teams to develop strategies to improve service cost and business opportunities; define plans to develop service products to improve revenue.

• Work with KLA Regional Service Directors to address site specific product and service performance, and customer; create field get well plans to recover KLA tool performance, service skills, and talent to support product line.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree experience.

• Experience with Customer Relationship Management, quality control systems, and methodology (DMAIC, Six Sigma)

• A sound understanding of how semiconductor systems are developed and supported.

• Ability or capability to influence and drive continuous improvement improve products, people, and processes.

• Development of Organizations and service business.

• Develop and Drive standard methodologies by ensuring both process consistency, standardization, and continuous improvement across the organization.

• Drive continuous improvements parts projects to increase serviceability, quality, reliability, and process.

• Ability to travel => 25%

• Good presentation skills.

• Good customer leadership skills.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Level Degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience OR

• Bachelor's Level Degree with a miniumu of 12 years of relevant experience

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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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1. Demonstrated ability in developing machine learning algorithms for computer vision, image processing, and image classification problems.

2. Led teams to develop products with performance and cost constraints that required complex tradeoffs to be considered and analyzed.

3. Knowledgeable in the latest advances and tools in the AI industry.

4. Familiar with different statistical methods to analyze vast and complex datasets to explain trends, patterns, and correlations within the data.

5. Experience with Deep Learning Frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.

6. Experience with C/C++.

7. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

8. Creativity and curiosity for solving complex problems.

9. Understanding of semiconductor manufacturing industry and process control.

10. PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields with 15 years of experience or MS in the same fields with 20 years of experience.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Demonstrated ability in developing machine learning algorithms for computer vision, image processing, and image classification problems.

2. Led teams to develop products with performance and cost constraints that required sophisticated tradeoffs to be considered and analyzed.

3. Knowledgeable in the latest advances and tools in the AI industry.

4. Familiar with different statistical methods to analyze vast and various datasets to explain trends, patterns, and correlations within the data.

5. Experience with Deep Learning Frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.

6. Experience with C/C++.

7. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

8. MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields with 15 years of experience or BS in the same fields with 20 years of experience.

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Primary Tasks and Qualifications

• Revenue & Forecas t: Responsible and accountable for regional forecasting of different revenue types for all accounts within the region and potentially for strategic accounts worldwide. Support the forecasting operating model and participation in the yearly 5-year forecast outlook created during the strategic planning period.

• Customer Engagement: Highly proficient at managing all customer engagements as well as proactively anticipating customer needs and requests. This includes preparing for customer meetings with regular checkpoints to drive alignment with the appropriate stakeholders. Has foresight to develop long term strategies in alignment with the KLA enterprise. Cultivates meaningful relationships at key accounts beyond normal interface relationships including Director and Executive levels. Engages with a sense of urgency to address customer experience escalations and can lead recovery of service delivery to agreed levels with “get well / stay well” plans

• Service Contract Renewal Closure: Lead contract renewal negotiations with little to no management support. Capable of negotiating deals at customer VP levels. Capable of performing detailed data analysis to identify key performance indicators, culminating in the development of a focused, actionable single sales objective. Utilize Miller-Heiman or equivalent sales processes. Follow the KLA Services renewal deliverables, best known methods and adopt the renewal operating model to lead the deal reviews with the appropriate approvers

• Product and Services Alignment : Drive alignment with the business unit and regional division business development leads to optimize the tool, service price, and total cost of ownership and ensure KLAS is positioned appropriately with the customer to gain adoption. Ensure that regional team members also adopt the product and service alignment strategy. Host KLA “service pitches” with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the value of service contract is communicated. Support the operating model to prioritize the “service pitches” and the drive support from product marketing for the appropriate collateral

• Financial Metrics & BSC Initiatives : Accountable for financial KPIs (ASP, Market Share, Gross Margin and contract penetration) in the region. Report the KPIs in the BD monthly business review. Understand the KPI drivers (positive or negative). Develop plans to improve the KPIs in alignment with the business goals and consistent with annual BSC growth targets. As a result of strategic planning initiatives, this individual can take a concept or idea from strategic planning environmental issues and creating a strategic initiative around it. This includes developing a plan or record, aligned across multiple functions. The individual may be required to justify investment and ROI. The initiative may then need to be budgeted, and a scoring mechanism defined to track progress to plan including reporting of BSC progress and justifies scoring to HQ Exec team

• Strategic Planning: Independently drives strategic planning activity, phases 1/2/3. Develop HQ PPT material. Present strategic plan to executives beyond KLAS

• Accountability to KLA Enterprise & Operating Model : Ability to manage KLAS business through the adoption of the existing operating models like the contract renewal process. This individual must have the ability to define new operating models with their regional BD counterparts in other regions and then drive adoption of those operating models in the organization.

• Business Acumen : Demonstrates strong business acumen; ability to assess short term and long-term impact, anticipating future challenges and avoiding unintended consequences.

• Cross Collaboration : Ability to motivate and drive action across teams, BUs, or Divisions. Should have influence and respect of divisional management throughout the KLA Enterprise.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree with 15 years of experience in Semiconductor capital equipment systems or service sales. Knowledge of KLA inspection and metrology equipment or broader market OEM knowledge such as process tools used in the manufacturing of semiconductors.

• Experience managing large commercial engagements with a strong track record of closing. Ability to manage a team of individuals both domestic and internationally.

• Expert at building effective working relationships with key customers at VP levels and above.

• Adept at leveraging existing internal processes and the ability to develop / create new processes is a must in order to enable scale in the organization.

• Ability to speak a 2nd language, specifically Japanese, would be considered an additional bonus.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Level Degree with a minimum of 13 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor Level Degree with a mimumum of 15 years of relevant experience.

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Responsibilities:

Following are someof the responsibilities of the Director of Mask Computational Software Products Group:

• Own and drive all aspects of the software group business, P&L, product strategy, customer engagements and development and field engineering
• Directly engage with mask-shop and fab reticle requal customers to understand their most challenging problems in the areas of mask inspection and defect disposition, propose solutions using advanced computational software and algorithms, then drive the development and deployment on these solutions to resolve their issues
• Come up with innovative application use-case ideas and find continuous improvements in production mask-making and reticle requal flows
• Leverage advanced image processing, optical and lithography modeling, and numerical and AI methods to come up with unique and advanced software offerings in the mask defect disposition space
• Develop and socialize clear requirements for new use-cases, and brainstorm on possible technology approaches with algo, software and expert application engineers
• Build strong positive relationships and credibility with internal engineering teams, key customers and field teams leveraging their strengths and support to deliver on software solutions
• Drive key projects and customer engagements through weekly progress meetings
• Work harmoniously across functional and division teams
• Prepare and deliver periodic program updates and clearly communicate progress, issues, help needed and plans with senior management
• Travel up to 25-50% to better sync with customers, development engineering and field and account teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track-record working with customers in semiconductor industry, committing and delivering on software solutions to improve mask or wafer yield and turn-around-time
• Strong team player, able to lead and influence teams. Experience managing development teams of 10+ engineers
• Experiencein semiconductorlithography modeling, OPC/Verification, mask inspection and/or defect disposition
• Familiarity with UNIX/Linux programming, MATLAB and scripting in Shell, Python, Perl, PHP, or HTML
• Understand software development, test, release, andqualification cycle
• Excellent communication,project management, organization, analytical and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem solving skills and perseverance, self-driven yet strong team player

Minimum Qualifications

Masters level degree in a technical field with at least 10 years of experience in Semiconductor Mask Inspection, software or OPC industry

Doctorate (Academic) in a technical field with at least 5 years of experience in Semiconductor Mask Inspection, software or OPC industry

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