BBP Customer Engagement Applications Engineer

KLA • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

KLA is the global leader in process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and electronics industries. We’re at the nexus of electron and photon optics, sensor technology, and artificial intelligence—developing advanced inspection, metrology, and analytics systems that help customers accelerate yield and quality in chip manufacturing. For over 40 years, our innovations have powered the devices that drive modern life, from smartphones and cloud computing to electric vehicles and AI. Applications Engineer – BBP Division 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. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The Broadband Plasma Division (BBP) provides market-leading patterned wafer optical inspection systems for leading-edge IC manufacturing. Logic, foundry, and memory customers depend on BBP products to detect yield-critical defects for process debug and excursion monitoring at advanced process nodes. BBP flagship products include the 29xx and 39xx series which leverage Broadband Plasma technology to capture a wide range of defects with ultimate sensitivity at the optical inspection speeds needed for inline defect monitoring.

Requirements

• Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years

Responsibilities

• Deliver expert technical support that ensures optimal tool performance in customer fabs
• Implement detailed installation plans
• Develop and implement applications that solve customer problems using existing and pre-release products
• Work with engineering teams to resolve hardware/software issues, scope feature requests to improve current products, and collect requirements for future products
• Coordinate activities with customers and internal teams
• Maintain strategic customer relationships
• Deliver technical presentations and customer training
• Assist sales teams with technical assessments and product specifications

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits
• 401(K) including company matching
• employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
• student debt assistance
• tuition reimbursement program
• development and career growth opportunities and programs
• financial planning benefits
• wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP)
• paid time off and paid company holidays
• family care and bonding leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level