KLA Senior Optical Engineer 

United States, California, Milpitas 

105232210

Qualifications

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Develop optics and optical module hardware through collaboration with suppliers.
• Investigate different design options and finding the best option through evaluating tolerances, manufacturability, light budgets and other trade-offs in primarily illumination system.
• Deliver a complete optical system design by performing thorough tolerancing analysis with full consideration of alignment process, metrology, system calibrations and opto-mechanical design limitations.
• Translate system or subsystem requirements into optical design and optical manufacturing requirements.
• Deliver opto-mechanical design requirements such DOF table.

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

• Follows complete design process throughout full product development cycle. It includes design reviews, part procurement from vendors, verification, integration and product release.
• Debug, and trouble-shooting of any optical problems that arise with the system
• Designing and building off-axis mirror system in high precision
• Deliver coating modeling in optical software and optical requirements to complete coating requirements.
• Conduct optical analysis to deliver information needed to complete light budget.

Qualifications

• Excellent optical system design such as illumination design, high precision lens/mirror design preferably in semiconductor tools
• Must have high proficiency in illumination optical design software such as Zemax or LightTools
• Able to conduct statistical optical component and system 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, auto-collimator, point source microscope, CGH, and interferometry.
• Test stand design and build: concept, error budget, realization.
• Optical module and system build and debugging.
• Deliver solid design reviews and achieve design approvals from multi-disciplinary team members
• Working knowledge with diverse optical devices and components: objectives, collimation and relay optics, fibers, cameras and detectors.

Experience

• Highly desired to have more than five years of professional experience in high precision optical system development, preferably in semiconductor tools
• Experience of working with premier optical suppliers to develop high precision optics and optical assembly
• Strong emphasis on creative problem solving and effective communication.
• Be able to collaborate 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.

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 track record 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 direction.
• Demonstrate open, clear, concise and professional communication.
• Ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with manager, co-workers and customer.
• Work according to a strict set of procedures within the provided timelines.

Minimum 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/mirror design, Radiometry, Optical metrology, Illumination optics, Optical imaging system, Optical alignment

Minimum 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.