Optical Development Engineer

KLA•Milpitas, CA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards for technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials. We also develop technologies for specialty processes, IC substrates, and PCB manufacturing, including etch and deposition, component inspection, and imaging and analytics. The LS-SWIFT division delivers high-throughput patterned wafer inspection systems that support advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to provide industry-leading defect detection with optimal cost of ownership across a wide range of applications. LS systems enable precise, cost-effective inspection for cutting-edge process nodes, while SWIFT systems offer comprehensive macro inspection of all wafer surfaces—capabilities that are especially critical for advanced packaging, as well as logic, memory, and automotive applications.

Requirements

Basic optical understanding
Mechanical integration experience
Ability and desire to work as part of a team
Ability to work in a clean room
Ability to clearly communicate in English
Experience in creating assembly and alignment procedures
Ability to travel to vendor sites around the world and visit the Singapore manufacturing location (estimate 5% international travel)

Nice To Haves

Prior experience handing high quality optics
Prior experience with laser systems alignment
Start to finish data collection thru analysis with electronic devices (i.e., camera images, computer captured electronic data such as a power meter)
Experience processing and presenting data and conclusions
Past experience with KLA inspection tools integration

Responsibilities

Building and aligning lasers and test equipment (working in a clean room environment)
Participating in creating alignment and assembly procedures
Testing (collecting data) and creating results presentations
Managing vendors (acquiring all hardware needed for testing)
Traveling to vendor sites to repair/ trouble shoot KLA test fixtures and occasionally traveling to the KLA Singapore manufacturing sites