KLA Mgr Software Engrg 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

224778961

Essential Responsibilities:

• As a SW manager in this group, you will build and lead a team of smart software engineers to help our wafer inspection products to achieve the next level of performance through superior technology and the latest in software practices & machine learning. You will bring your proven experience in leading a team of engineers to conceive, design and deploy robust/scalable software for high-volume production and real time applications.
• Need to lead the change to bring in the next generation SW architecture (in possibly newer tech stack) along with supporting the existing set of features done with the current SW tech stack
• With respect to the value add for the position offered, expect you to:
  • Drive incremental value and make technical decisions that support strategic objectives
  • Leverage prior experience to advise against suboptimal approaches and one-time hacks, quickly pushing the team towards generic and robust solutions
  • Transform customer and business requirements into scalable and complete technical solutions backed by deep analysis in understanding
  • Easily work with legacy frameworks, while embracing and implementing modern technologies and frameworks
  • Communicate effectively on technical and business topics
• Acquire and demonstrate technical knowledge of LS-SWIFT product software
• Meet product timelines with good quality software
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
• Ensuring that detailed designs, code, and unit tests are consistent, robust, future-proof and scalable. Understand and make design and architectural improvements on existing software.
• Motivated to learn newer Software technologies independently
• Providing technical expertise to the estimation process. Co-create project plan with peers, update higher management regularly on the progress.
• Acquire knowledge of key use cases in Patterned wafer inspection
• In conjunction with the Product Manager, identify, highlight, review and mitigate technical risks
• Contribute to the continued improvement of the organization's development procedures, by looking for opportunities for improvement and proposing ideas for solution
• Collaborate with cross-divisional and cross-functional teams across geographical zones to develop / deliver software solutions
• Passion for building and nurturing team members and help them realize full potential

Essential skills:

• Good technical problem-solving skills
• Strong understanding of Design patterns and Programming skills using the high-level languages - C#, C++ and Python
• Strong knowledge of Architecture patterns
• Good knowledge on open-source software and varied technologies (web and thick client) and have a good understanding on the strengths and weaknesses of software architectures of these technologies
• Rational thinking in arriving at a decision (technical or for project)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters or Bachelors in Engineering
• UX skills – wireframing, prototyping, user flows using some well known tools
• Preferred work experiences in semiconductor processing / equipment industry or product companies
• Must have excellent communication, organizational, analytical, leadership, and interpersonal skills
• Must be self-driven, and a strong team player
• Good understanding on High Performance computing and related technologies/aids (CPU, GPU performance comparison and related toolkits) along with Machine learning basics

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors, Masters or Doctorate in computer science, Math or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 2+ years people management experience preferred