Regional Development Applications 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.

Responsible for providing high level applications support of KLA FaST metrology products.

Job responsibilities include:
- Work closely with many organizations including engineering, sales and marketing within KLA and with customer engineers outside KLA;
- Conduct new product introduction projects, e.g. product characterization, alpha testing, beta testing and pilot tool support in the ramp phase;
- Provide escalation support to onsite field service engineer; leading and coordinating remote/local troubleshooting;
- Perform experiments to characterize tool/subcomponent performance and develop recipes to model complex optical applications;
- Provide application support and training to customers. Applications engineer is also responsible for generating best known method (BKM) documents and other training materials and transferring product knowledge to worldwide Field Applications team. Lastly, he/she will work closely with customers to develop solutions to problems, and publish papers at industry symposiums or in technical journals;
- In addition, applications engineer will manage in-house customer demonstrations and head-to-head (H2H) activities at customer facilities.

Minimum Qualifications

- Must have MS/PhD in Engineering, Physics, Optics, Material Science or related fields and strong technical background;
- Preferred work experiences in semiconductor processing or equipment industry;
- Must have excellent communication, organizational, analytical, leadership, and interpersonal skills;
- Must be self-driven, and a strong team player;
- >50% travel would be required.

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.