Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer

** Company Overview
** 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
** With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chip makers 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.
** Job Description/Preferred Qualifications
** This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the Sensitivity and Throughput Roadmap for both BBP and Rapid Divisions. BBP (Broadband Plasma) Division provides market-leading patterned wafer optical inspection systems for leading-edge IC manufacturing. Rapid Division provides market-leading reticle inspection solutions for the semiconductor  this role, you will be working with Research Scientists, Optics Engineers and other Mechanical Engineers to develop R&D Inspection Benches to validate new inspection methods that could drive the future of both BBP and Rapid divisions.

These R&D Inspection Benches would be utilized to run actual inspections on customers wafers and reticles in order to validate the values of the proposed new inspection methods. The inspection results from these R&D benches will determine the adoption/implementation on the actual systems/products, thus the roadmap.
** In this role you will:
*** Obtain thorough understanding of the fundamental physics behind the new proposed inspection methods and the underlying problems these new methods are aimed to solve.
* Work together with Optics Engineers to develop the layout, followed by design concepts and detailed designs to build these R&D Inspection Benches from scratch.
* Work together with Optics Engineers to perform optical alignment on these benches.
* Own driving the precision mechanism design, vibration control and other related design parameter to meet bench requirements (such as cleanliness) that are critical for the wafer and reticle inspection systems.
* Own driving selections of key modules such as light source, optics, sensors/cameras, stages.
* Work together with Research Scientists to run actual inspections on customers wafers and reticles on these benches.
* Communicate results and recommendations to Product teams and Marketing.##

Qualifications:

* Proven track record of precision mechanical design.
* Hands-on experience is a MUST.
* Curiosity is a MUST.
* Experience with Pro/E and ANSYS are…