KLA Senior Staff Optical Design Engineer 

United States, California, Milpitas 

771643768

We are looking for a Senior Staff Optical Design Engineer to join our team within the BBP division to develop the cutting-edge wafer inspection products! Optics is the core part of BBP products, which include high-brightness light-sources, broadband coatings, complex optical subsystem and high-speed sensors. This role will be responsible for the complete design process of one or multiple optical subsystems to support BBP roadmap:

• Provide technical leadership by owning and investigating optical architecture and design options to find the best option by through systematic trade off among different performance metrics as well as costs & schedule implications.

• Closely collaborate with external suppliers and internal functional teams such as technology and system engineering to gather optical performance dependencies.

• Translate system requirements into optical, mechanical and metrology requirements.

• Develop and implement optical alignment and metrology concept to achieve targeted optical performances.

• Follow KLA design processes, including design reviews, part procurement from vendors, testing, integration and release.

• Solve problems that arise within the proto or released inspection system.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid background in optics, physics or related field such as imaging system aberrations, Fourier optics, polarization, Radiometry etc.

• Lens design and requirement development for diffraction limited optical imaging systems

• Experienced in developing optical alignment, error budgets, and metrology for high precision and highly complex optical system.

• Proficient in modeling optical performance of as-built optical system using CodeV, Matlab, LightTools, FRED and Zemax etc.

• A self-starter with intellectual curiosity, a quick learner who desires to grow by acquiring new knowledge and skills in multi-disciplinary hardware technologies.

• Detail oriented, methodical problem-solving and critical thinking skills;

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Work well with others in either a leading or supporting role.

Minimum Qualifications

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

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