KLA Product Development Engineer 

United States, California, Milpitas 

277670800

The Surfscan Division specializes in developing unpatterned wafer surface inspection tool that provides the sensitivity and throughput required for qualification of current and next-generation semiconductor wafer substrates, as well as qualification and monitoring of process tools. The Surfscan system design team is supporting multiple Surfscan engineering programs and products. With the ramp up on the next-generation product and future product line on the near horizon, we need more people to support these efforts.

The SFS system team is looking for a product development engineer for the development for next generation inspection tool. The responsibilities are:

• Transform market and customer requirements into system configurations
• Develop novel inspection solution to improve sensitivity and throughput. Design experiments to validate the ideas
• Define system error budget. Translate system requirement into sub module requirement. Work with functional team to ensure sub module requirement is met
• Collaborate with key functional groups to ensure the success of tool integration and product launch
• Own creation and execution of prototype test plans for entire system and complex subsystems.
• Engage with customer technical development, drive team to resolve system issues at customer site or in manufacturing.
• Experience developing inspection or metrology is preferred, experience with semiconductor manufacturing is preferred.
• Project management skills (scoping, budgeting, and scheduling) is a plus.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years