Engineering Intern

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/Division 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 Broadband Plasma (BBP) division is the market-leading optical inspection system used by logic, foundry, and memory customers to detect critical defects at advanced nodes.

These tools combine broadband plasma technology with unmatched sensitivity and speed to support high-volume manufacturing.

What You’ll Do

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

VUV Detector Characterization and Analysis Intern

Job duties will include supporting research and development of advanced detector characterization methods for next generation semiconductor inspection technologies. Opportunities exist for experimental testing of optical detectors, development and execution of measurement workflows, data acquisition and analysis, and improvement of characterization methodologies and test efficiency. The intern will evaluate key detector performance parameters including photon transfer characteristics, quantum efficiency, and quantum yield in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectral region.

Desired

Qualifications:

• Pursuing a degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Optical Engineering, or a related field.
• Fundamental knowledge of optics, cameras, image sensors, or detector characterization principles.
• Experience with experimental data collection, analysis, and visualization using Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB, or similar tools.
• Hands-on experience with laboratory instrumentation, optical measurements, detector handling, or related experimental techniques.
• Familiarity with scientific data analysis, statistical methods, and measurement uncertainty evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical findings through reports and presentations.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a diverse team of scientists and engineers.

Minimum Qualifications Requires less than 1 year of related experience

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Total

Rewards Base Pay Range: $47.00 - $56.00 per hour based on pursuit of a Masters and Ph.D.Primary

Location:

USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA

KLA’s total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits,…