Senior Regional Development Application Engineer

Responsibilities

• Work closely with division organizations (engineering, sales, marketing) within KLA and with customer engineers outside KLA to provide high‑level application support of complex overlay measurement systems.
• Manage in‑house customer demonstrations and head‑to‑head activities at customer sites; conduct new tool demonstrations to showcase tool performance and develop use cases to drive tool sales.
• Design experiments to characterize tool/sub‑component performance, demonstrate product value in alpha testing, beta testing and pilot tool support during the ramp phase to enable product penetration and adoption at customer facilities.
• Develop recipes to model complex optical applications and optimize tool performance.
• Provide escalation support to onsite field service engineers, leading and coordinating remote/local troubleshooting.
• Characterize next‑generation state‑of‑the‑art overlay measurement products.
• Design test plans, collect and analyze data, and publish results and recommendations in applications notes and best‑known methods.
• Form training materials and transfer new production knowledge and application capabilities to worldwide application support team.
• Work closely with division system and algorithm team to develop software offline tools for data analysis and feature development.
• Focused customers include Intel and others.

• Must have MS/PhD in Engineering, Physics, Optics, Material Science or related fields and a strong technical background.
• Preferred work experience 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.

• Doctorate (Academic) Degree and related work experience of 5 years;
  Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 8 years;
  Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 10 years.

Primary

Location:

USA-OR-Hillsboro-Beaverton-KLA

Base Pay Range: $ - $ annually.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, 401(K) with company matching, employee stock purchase program, student debt assistance, tuition reimbursement, financial planning, wellness programs, paid time off, paid company holidays, family care and bonding leave.

KLA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer
. Qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process.