KLA Technical Director - Inspection Boise ID Strategic Business Unit 

United States, Idaho, Boise 

945488750

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for developing technical strategies and gain alignment with product division GM’s, heads of engineering, and business unit sales

• Lead multidisciplinary, cross-divisional teams toward the achievement of technical and commercial objectives

• Build strong working relationships both internally and externally at all levels within the organization. This will require frequent interaction with KLA’s executive team.

• Find creative ways to continually move the customer relationship and technical engagement forward

• Ability to lead, mentor and develop a team of experience, highly technical engineers that will report to this individual

• Ideal candidate will live in Boise area. ~25% travel required

• Lead strategic roadmap discussions, competitive and red team reviews, track and analyze customer use cases to create new opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD (MS/PhD preferred) with a minimum of 10 years of experience in Semiconductor Fabrication (Yield, Integration, Lithography or related discipline) or in Engineering or Technology in the area of imaging, optics or electro-optics R&D

• Must be a strong customer advocate, listens and understand needs, and can champion needs to internal stakeholders

• Strong management skills; experience hiring and developing high-performance teams; objective setting as an objective and driven leader

• Extensive experience and ties to Fab Process in Lithography, Etch, CMP, Deposition, Yield or Integration

• Semiconductor Technology Expert; understands Logic/IDM roadmaps

• Expert communicator with strong ability to educate customers on KLA’s portfolio of products’ capabilities and strengths and present the value and benefits to the customer

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, innovative, IP-savvy

• Highly experienced in leading/guiding collaborative communications and strong experience delivering powerful presentations to broad spectrum ofcustomers/personalities

• Demonstrated ability to lead creative, technical, cross-functional teams which resulted in innovative and inventive contributions in his/her field

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate (Academic) with at least 10 years of experience OR

• Master's Level Degree with at least 13 years of experience OR

• Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 15 years of experience