Etch Equipment Field Installation and Design 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/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 SPTS division provides advanced wafer processing solutions—including etch, deposition and vapor-based technologies—designed for R&D through high-volume production. With a global presence and strong customer support network, SPTS helps manufacturers across industries improve performance, yield and cost-efficiency. It also offers comprehensive service and spare parts through a worldwide network of service centers and qualified local agents.

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.

Part of the SPTS Engineering division, the Equipment Engineering and Development Group is a multi-disciplined team, providing automation solutions to enable the integration of SPTS process systems into customer semiconductor fabrication factories worldwide!

This is an exciting new role that allows a candidate to work in new technologies and to be involved in many different and new projects.

As the successful candidate, you will be an experienced multidisciplinary Engineer with an understanding of electrical, electronic and mechanical systems able to build a solid expertise in overall system operation, integration, and calibrations/diagnostics. Must have a hands-on approach by learning from the engineering team to support Alpha & Beta Systems and retrofits.

You would be working with other specialists in the group with equipment design/integration and expect to work to tight deadlines in a highly regulated industry.

Key Responsibilities:

Maintain, develop, and improve ETCH semiconductor process equipment hardware. Building and fault finding in new designs in the factory as part of our PLC process

Installation and fault finding of new products at customer sites

Must be willing to travel internationally ~ 50% often travelling to customers to assist with problems

Reporting back to the factory on improvements and customer requirements.

Wiring harness and mechanical design

Improve serviceability of new designs

Testing and compliance of machines to international standards

Technical report writing

Plan and execute hardware testing, validation, and performance characterisation. Work with process engineers to optimise hardware performance for reliability and process capability. Support technology development programmes from early concept through to customer-ready Qualifications and

Experience:

Minimum HNC Electrical/ Mechanical/ Mechatronics or related field and experience in a customer facing role Experience working in a design role with an eye for continuous improvement

An understanding of Machinery safety regulations and EU harmonized standards, EN60204, EN13849 preferable

Experience in diagnosing faults and an analytical mind

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