Manufacturing Systems Engineer

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

Group/DivisionKLA has manufacturing sites worldwide. The Global Operations (GOPS) team, comprised of Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Installation and Quality, builds our leading-edge technology. GOPS partners with KLA's global supply base and design engineering teams to develop new products, working continuously to build better, faster and more cost-efficient solutions.

What You'll DoIn this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

We are seeking a Manufacturing Design Engineer II to support the manufacturing, integration, and continuous improvement of complex semiconductor capital equipment. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys being close to the hardware, solving technical problems on the manufacturing floor, working across engineering disciplines, and using data to improve how sophisticated systems are built and tested. You will partner with Systems, Mechanical, Optics, Software, and Manufacturing teams to support new product introduction (NPI), continuous improvement projects (CIP), manufacturing readiness, and production issue resolution.

Responsibilities:

Support manufacturing and NPI activities for complex capital equipment, helping transition new designs into repeatable manufacturing processes.

Partner with Systems, Mechanical, Optics, Software, and Manufacturing Engineers to troubleshoot and resolve build, integration, and test issues.

Develop and maintain best known methods (BKMs), manufacturing procedures, and work instructions for parts, subassemblies, and final system assembly.

Apply Design for Manufacturability (DfM) principles and provide feedback to engineering teams to improve product quality, manufacturability, and serviceability.

Work closely with technicians to troubleshoot sophisticated technical issues and develop clear plans of action for resolution.

Perform failure analysis, root cause investigation, and corrective action for manufacturing and product issues.

Analyze manufacturing and test data using MES or similar manufacturing systems, statistical methods, and process control techniques to identify trends and improvement opportunities.

Use tools such as Python or similar scripting/data-analysis tools to automate data extraction, analysis, reporting, or manufacturing workflows.

Support manufacturing cost estimates, time standards, tooling requirements, and process improvements for new and existing products.

Create and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs) and manufacturing documentation.

Read and interpret engineering drawings and schematics and perform basic updates to models or drawings using CAD tools.

Participate in cross-functional problem-solving efforts involving optical and opto-mechanical systems.

Identify opportunities to improve incoming material quality, manufacturing efficiency, and overall product quality.

Support global engineering and manufacturing teams across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Travel domestically and internationally up to 15%.Qualifications Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Applied Physics, Applied Optics, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.

Hands-on engineering experience supporting the manufacturing, integration, assembly, test, or troubleshooting of complex equipment or electromechanical systems.

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