Statistician

Position: Staff Statistician
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.

Central Engineering is KLA's largest engineering organization comprised of 9 Centers-of-Excellence (CoE) in various disciplines applied across all product groups in the company. These CoE include Handling & Automation, Precision Motion Control, Sensors & Image Acquisition, Platform Design, and Packaging Engineering, among others. Talent includes over 500 engineers across global centers in Israel, China, India, and the US. Each CoE contributes not just talent and deliverables per discipline toward product programs, but also subject matter expertise, best practices, roadmaps, specialized facilities, apparatus, models, and analytics.

These differentiate KLA not only in WHAT we do, but also in HOW we do it.

Job Description /Preferred Qualifications

The Staff Statistician provides strategic leadership for applied statistics, probability modeling, and reliability analytics across KLA's product, engineering and service organizations! The statistician is accountable for defining the enterprise statistical strategy, providing rigor and consistency in modeling approaches, and translating complex data into insights that inform product and process decisions and priorities. This role combines technical expertise with organizational leadership, influencing outcomes across multiple teams and programs rather than owning day‑to‑day execution alone.

Strategic Leadership

* Define and own KLA's use of statistical methods in the product life cycle.

* Partner with senior engineering and product leaders to align statistical insights with business, roadmap, and risk decisions.

* Identify new opportunities for the application of statistical methods in a variety of areas.

* Foster a culture of statistical rigor, intellectual curiosity, and multi-functional collaboration.

Technical Leadership

* Define and deliver hands-on statistics' training to engineers

* Design, implement, and analyze experiments (e.g., DOE) to support product and process development, and equipment performance in our customer sites.

* Review and validate critical analyses that inform high‑impact product, quality, or customer decisions.

* Develop and maintain statistical models for manufacturing, process capability, measurement repeatability, equipment matching, equipment performance and equipment reliability.

* Perform root cause analysis using statistical tools to identify and resolve process and product issues.

* Create dashboards and software analytics for monitoring key indicators for manufacturing and field performance.

* Provide training and consulting to colleagues and teams on statistical methods,…