Manufacturing Design Engineer (eBeam – Electron Optics)

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

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What You'll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize manufacturing processes, assembly methods, alignment procedures, and test methodologies for high-precision Electron Optics systems.
• Work closely with Operations, Design Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain to resolve system-level manufacturing and product performance issues
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for yield, reliability, performance, and manufacturability issues using data-driven problem-solving methodologies.
• Identify manufacturing risks early in the product development cycle and drive mitigation plans through design reviews, process validation, and production readiness activities.
• Acting independently, devise and drive innovative analyses and solutions for complex problems.
• Analyze data and/or utilize modeling to drive process, specifications, and design improvements.

• Setup complex project plans, across multiple resources disciplines, and drive to completion.

• Partner with suppliers and external manufacturing partners to develop and qualify critical components, processes, and technologies.

• Travel up to 15%

Qualifications

Preferred experience:

• Experience with Electron Optics and High Voltage for scanning electron microscopes or equivalent a plus.

Requirements:

• Masters or Doctorate in Physics, Electron optics or related fields.
• Entry level Doctorate candidates with strong relevant knowledge, and/or relevant instrument hands-on experience is welcomed.
• Possess strong troubleshooting and analytical skills to support technical issues, set-up experiments, modeling, and data analysis.
• Ability to champion his/her technical solutions to manufacturability issues found with the design.
• Ability to create effective technical presentations up to the divisional level.

Minimum Qualifications

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.