KLA Principal Optical Engineer E 

United States, California, Milpitas 

37272973

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Being a lead optical person, responsible of creating optical architecture, conducting key optical analysis and modeling and providing leadership team with technical recommendations.

• Investigate various design options and find the best option through evaluating tolerances, optical performance, manufacturability, light budgets and other trade-offs.

• Translate system or subsystem requirements into optical design and manufacturing requirements.

• Perform thorough tolerancing analysis to have a complete system design with full consideration of alignment process and metrology, system calibrations and opto-mech design limitations by interfacing with other groups (systems, ME).

• Design and implement optical alignment and metrology process, test/tooling fixtures to achieve targeted optical performance.

• Follows complete design process, including design reviews, part procurement from vendors, testing, integration and release.

The preferred candidate will have experience and capability in the following areas:

• Excellent optical system design such as high precision imaging system, illumination design, preferably in semiconductor tools

• Designing and building off-axis mirror system in high precision

• Understand of optical coating in various wavelength such as EUV, UV, and IR and coating modeling in optical software

• High proficiency in optical design software such as CodeV or Zemax or LightTools

• Statistical optical component tolerancing

• Able to create specifications of precision opto-mechanical assemblies

• Understand optics manufacturability and reflect it in optical design

• Strong understanding in optical metrology tool and data

• Building and aligning complex optical system using diverse mechanical, collimation, point source microscope, CGH, and interferometry.

• Deliver solid design reviews and achieve design approvals from multi-disciplinary stakeholders

• Working knowledge with diverse optical devices and components: objectives, collimation and relay optics, fibers, cameras and detectors

• EUV experience is preferred but not a must

• Basic CAD skill is preferred not a must

Experience

• Highly desired to have more than 10 years of professional experience in high precision optical system development, preferably in semiconductor tools

• Experience of working with top tier optical suppliers to develop high precision optics and optical assembly

• Strong emphasis on creative problem solving and effective communication.

• Be able to interface with multidisciplinary groups and work effectively in a team and be willing to take on responsibility, follow through and keep multiple simultaneous assignments on schedule.

• Be able to quickly acquire technical knowledge from documentation and on-the-job training and be capable of thoroughly investigating technical issues (analytically and hands-on in a lab).

• Strong communication and presentation skill. Must have the capability to clearly communicating progress and status of ongoing investigations to managers and to customers; Candidate will be required to write reports documenting investigations carried out.

• Experience of presenting executive leadership team highly complex technical topics.

Personal skills

• Should be able to work, and deliver self-independently with minimum supervision

• Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.

• Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization, quality, efficiency and professionalism.

• Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.

• Proven ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads and deadlines.

• Result driven-demonstrate ownership and accountability.

• Identifies bottlenecks and drives improvements.

• Work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision.

• Demonstrate open, clear, concise and professional communication.

• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with manager, co-workers and customer.

• Work according to a strict set of procedures within the provided timelines.

Qualifications

• This is a senior engineering role. Advanced degree is a must.

• Doctorate in Optics/Physics and 5+ years of work experience, or a Master's Degree and 8+ years of work experience.

Education

• MS or Ph.D in Optical engineering (preferred) or Physics

• Highly desired to have strong background in following disciplines, Geometrical optics, Fourier optics, Lens design, Radiometry, Optical metrology, Illumination optics, Optical imaging system, Optical alignment.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (optical, mechanical, systems) or physics or related technical field and 5+ years of demonstrated ability in the NPI role.

• Experience with building and aligning sophisticated opto-mechanical systems is highly desirable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate (Academic) or work experience of 5 years, Master's Level Degree or work experience of 7 years, Bachelor's Level Degree or work experience of 10 years