KLA Senior Optical Engineer 

United States, California, Milpitas 

386714207

Qualifications

• Investigate different design options and finding the best option through evaluating tolerances, 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 working 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.

• Investigate issues from customers or manufacturing and provide option design solution or work-around.

• Propose optical design improvements to enhance a tool performance such as SNR or throughput or manufacturability.

• Debug, and solving of any optical problems that arise with the system.

• Optical design in imaging and illumination systems delivering in-spec performance, cost and manufacturability on time.

• Statistical optical component and alignment tolerancing

• Able to create specs for precision opto-mechanical assemblies

• Proficiency in optical modeling software such as Code V or Zemax or LightTools

• Non-sequential ray tracing using Light Tools to model high precision optics surface scattering, conduct stray light analysis

• Optical module and system build, alignment and debugging

• Test stand design and build: concept, error budget, realization

• Knowledge with diverse optical devices and components such as objectives, collimator, CGH, and relay optics, fibers, cameras, lasers and detectors

• Strong understanding in optics and physics enabling to analyze complex optical phenomena

• Proficiency in computing language such as Matlab, Python

• Proficiency in observing and responding to various scenarios and individuals, maintaining effective interactions throughout work

• Ability to learn and apply new information or skills.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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 capability to clearly communicate progress and status of assignments to colleagues, key stakeholder, managers via documents or presentations.

• Product development or research experience in high precision optics or optical module.

• Desired to have three to five years of professional experience in high end optical system development. Microscope experience is bonus.

• Experience in working with engineers across disciplines to solve complex problems in a timely manner.

• Experience in high precision optical tools' manufacturing is bonus, not mandatory.

• Masters or PhD in Optical engineering (preferred) or Physics

• Highly desired to have strong background in following areas: Geometrical optics, Fourier optics, Lens design, Radiometry, Optical metrology, Illumination optics, Optical imaging system, Optical alignment, Polarization, Optical aberration

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years