Software Quality 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.

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.

KLA's Central Engineering organization is made up of nine Centers of Excellence (CoEs) spanning disciplines like automation, motion control, sensors, platform design, and packaging. Each CoE contributes not only technical deliverables but also deep expertise, best practices, and advanced tools that elevate both what we build—and how we build it.

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

KLA is seeking a highly skilled Software Quality Engineer with 2+ years of hands‑on Software Testing experience on System‑level software + hardware‑integrated semiconductor products! Candidate must be a self‑starter, fast learner, and capable of navigating dynamic schedules, evolving requirements, and multi‑functional collaboration within a complex semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.

Own the end‑to‑end testing activities for key project features as an individual contributor. Perform automation testing together with balanced mix of manual testing as needed for software and hardware‑integrated products. Own and drive automated test coverage for both UI and API layers across KLA products, designing robust test suites and publishing results, recommendations, and best‑known methods. Lead test planning, test strategy execution, and collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, algorithms, systems, hardware, marketing, applications, and manufacturing teams.

Use intelligent algorithms, e.g. LLM, and business logic to find the root cause of software failures. Present them in an actionable manner through Power BI, dashboards, and other reporting and graphing tools. Participate in all stages of software development including deployment and troubleshooting at customer sites. Represent the Software Quality Engineering team in product lifecycle and key program meetings. Travel to customer fabrication facilities to understand customer use cases, deploy software, and troubleshoot.

Programming

Languages:

Proficiency in C++, C#, Java, Python or R.

Data Handling:
Strong skills in SQL, No

SQL databases, and data preprocessing.

Algorithms and Statistics:
Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, machine learning models, and statistical methods. Understand system‑level requirements and translate them into good software design Strong communication skills (written and verbal)

Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience;
Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics…