Applications Development Engineer

KLA•Austin, TX

About The Position

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us. Group/Division Enabling the movement toward advanced chip design, KLA's Measurement, Analytics and Control group (MACH) is looking for the best and brightest research scientists, software engineers, application development engineers and senior product technology process engineers to join our team. The MACH team's mission is to collaborate with our customers to innovate technologies and solutions that detect and control highly complex process variations—at their source—rather than compensate for them at later stages of the manufacturing process. With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Our MACH team develops leading-edge solutions for patterning process analytics and control technologies, thereby providing customers with critical insight at the feature level, field level and cross-wafer analysis. Our teams also develop advanced modeling simulation, data analytics and process control modeling technologies. As a member of the MACH team, you’ll be joining the most sophisticated and successful process-control company in the semiconductor industry--working across functions to solve the most complex technical problems in the digital age.

Requirements

Master's Level Degree or work experience of 0 years , Bachelor's Level Degree or work experience of 1 years

Responsibilities

Support MACH customers and KLA BU's to achieve account goals by conducting analysis and optimization within MACH Analytics SW products.
Develop and implement product applications for MACH Analytics SW products to provide maximum value to the customer in the semiconductor industry.
Focus on new product introduction such as characterization, alpha testing, beta testing, and pilot tools in the ramp phase.
Develop and review feature requirements, design test plans, collect data, perform analysis, publish results and recommendations.
Generate best known method documents, application notes and related material, and transfer product knowledge to Field Applications teams.
Perform product diagnosis and problem resolution and interface with systems and software engineering teams to verify that hardware and software problems have been resolved.
Conduct new product demonstrations and technical training to showcase differentiated performance that help drive sales and product adoption.
Generate demo and test reports for internal and customer review.
Apply expert computational engineering and AI knowledge to current and future generation of products.