Electrical Design Engineer - FPGA & PCB Design

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.

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 research scientists, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers.

The Surfscan group includes a team of engineers, technology development, apps engineers and product marketing focused on technology that enables wafer, IC and equipment manufacturers to develop, qualify and monitor their process tools. Defects and process non‑uniformities detected on Surfscan equipment allow for early identification of yield excursions. The flagship Surfscan products include the SPx platforms for wafer surface quality and wafer defect inspection tools and systems for inspection of polished wafers, epi wafers and engineered substrates during the wafer fabrication process.

• Define electrical subsystem requirements, specifications, and interfaces based on system requirements and specifications.
• Design and prototype analog/digital circuits, capture schematics, and direct PCB board layout.
• Design, implement, verify, and optimize high‑speed FPGA designs, including high‑bandwidth data acquisition, processing, and communication interfaces.
• Develop test fixtures, test procedures, and test scripts for PCB board prototypes and FPGA functional tests, qualification, and characterization.
• Perform circuit, signal integrity, timing, thermal, power, and FPGA simulations to validate and optimize designs.
• Participate in design reviews, such as PCB and FPGA design reviews, and provide constructive feedback.
• Conduct bench‑level, subsystem‑level, and system‑level integration, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting.
• Follow DFX design process and generate and maintain design documentation, test reports, and engineering release packages for manufacturing.
• Collaborate closely with mechanical, software, systems, and manufacturing engineers to ensure successful product integration and validation.

• Strong foundation in electrical engineering principles, analog and digital mixed‑signal electronics design at both theoretical and practical implementation levels.
• Experience with PCB design, FPGA and embedded processor development, including high‑speed digital hardware design.
• Experience in FPGA development using Xilinx or Intel (Altera) platforms, including Verilog and/or VHDL design, simulation, synthesis, implementation, and debugging.
• Solid understanding of FPGA‑to‑PCB interface design, timing analysis, timing closure, and constraint development.
• Hands‑on experience with hardware and firmware integration, debugging, and system‑level testing of prototype hardware.
• Familiarity with engineering development tools such as OrCAD, Xilinx Vivado/ISE, Intel Quartus, Synplify, Questa/Model Sim, Python, and MATLAB.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with…