KLA Head Applications Engineering - FaST 

United States, California, Milpitas 

908822977

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manage and guide a global team of development applications engineers and managers (headcount based in the US, Europe, China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea & SEA)
• Provide vision and leadership to enable continued FaST business growth
• Provide technical guidance to staff and actively participate in product roadmap decisions
• Drive development of leading-edge solutions for advanced node layers.
• Ensures proper allocation of applications support to customers at different regions worldwide
• Lead key customer collaboration and technical programs for product solutions development, customer research and development, and production adoption. This includes evaluation, demos, and meeting customers' long term needs with roadmap planning
• Ensure regular training of the Development Application and Customer Engagement Application Engineering team members to ensure engineers reach and sustain certification levels required for their roles.
• Promote Best Known Method sharing among the worldwide Applications Engineering teams
• Develop a strong characterization application and demo team
• Proactively work with algorithm team to develop new techniques and approaches in addressing gap layer solutions
• Regularly visit regional application teams, key stakeholders, and customers worldwide.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10 years of experience with a proven track record of demonstrated leadership overseeing relevant functions and teams
• Experience in semiconductor production capital equipment development, product and customer solutions, customer engagement, program and project management, and product roadmap steering
• Advanced degrees (Ph.D, MS.) in Science , Mathematics, and Engineering is a plus.

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate (Academic) with a minimum of 12 years of experience OR
• Master's Level Degree with a minimum of 14 years of experience OR
• Bachelor's Level Degree with a minimum of 16 years of experience