KLA Optical Engineer 

United States, California, Milpitas 

854757000

Qualifications

• Lead and ownership of design of optics and optical subsystems

• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, software and system engineering teams to fulfill system level goals

• 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 resolve 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.

• 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

• Able to conduct statistical optical component and system tolerancing; create specifications of precision opto-mechanical assemblies

• Understand optics manufacturability and reflect it in optical design; 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.

• Five years of professional experience in high precision optical system development, preferably in semiconductor tools desired

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

• Experience in collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, efficiently handling responsibilities, and ensuring the prompt completion of multiple concurrent projects.

• Ability to quickly acquire technical knowledge and thoroughly investigate technical issues both analytically and hands-on.

• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly report investigation progress to managers and customers, and document findings in detailed reports.

• Prioritizing customer satisfaction by ensuring quality, efficiency, and professionalism.

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

• Ability to excel in a demanding environment with changing workloads and timelines.

• Result driven-demonstrate ownership and accountability; identifies bottlenecks and drives improvements.

• Adhere to established procedures and meet specified timelines

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