Associate Software Engineer

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.

KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), a leading provider of process control and yield management solutions, partners with customers around the world to develop state-of-the-art inspection and metrology technologies. These technologies serve the semiconductor, data storage, LED, photovoltaic, and other related nanoelectronics industries. With a portfolio of industry-standard products and a team of world-class engineers and scientists, the company has created superior solutions for its customers for over 30 years. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, KLA-Tencor has dedicated customer operations and service centers around the world. Additional information may be found at www.kla-tencor.com

Software Engineer

Essential Responsibilities:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to implement project goals, requirements, and in given timelines.
• Develop SW to deploy various components of the software across various nodes and manages multiple side by side instances of the SW.
• Keep abreast of the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Contribute to existing documentation or knowledge base that expedites resolution time of queries from stakeholders like quality team, customer support, global service team, etc.,
• Triage SW issues and track them and debug to identify the root causes of issues, resolve with fast turnaround time - Creating impact on overall system, and quality.
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical challenges and risks.
• Conduct thorough code reviews and provide actionable feedback.

Minimum Qualifications

Qualifications/Requirements:

• MS/MTech degree in Computer Science/SW Engg/Electronics/Electrical Engg/Mechanical/Aerospace Engg disciplines.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills in C#/Java/Python
• Knowledge in Inter-Process Communication (IPC) techniques and tools viz: gRPC, REST, GraphQL protobuf, JSON, etc.,
• Work experience in frontend technologies like angular, react is an added advantage.
• Experience with container orchestration and management tools - Dockers, K8's, Helm Charts, etc.,
• [Desirable] Experience in database management system, including

• SQL Database: SQL Server, SQLite
• No SQL Databases: MongoDB
• Time Series Databases: Prometheous, InfluxDB

• Familiarity with observability tools and practices - Opentelemetry, Grafana, Elastic, Kibana, Logstash, etc.,
• Proficiency in scripting languages like shell and ansible for automation solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

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.