Product Installation Engineer RAPID - Extensive

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 Instruments™ is our instrumentation division, which designs advanced metrology and inspection instruments used in both R&D and production across industries and academia. Our tools—ranging from optical profilers and nano-indenters to thin film and defect inspection systems—enable precise surface and material analysis. We partner closely with customers to enable R&D, improve yield, optimize processes, and reduce production costs through innovative hardware, software and application expertise.

• Selected candidate must be able to work 6 days/week, 10 hours/day

Be the Face of KLA Technology at Our Customer Sites Worldwide At KLA, our Product Installation Engineers (IEs) are the critical first connection between our customers and their new, highly advanced equipment. This role is instrumental in shaping the customer’s first—and lasting—impression of KLA products, services, and technical excellence. As a Product Installation Engineer, you will lead the on‑time installation and qualification of complex capital equipment, ensuring smooth handoff, predictable cycle times, and a successful warranty start.

You’ll represent KLA directly with customers, taking ownership of installation performance and customer satisfaction.

• Install and qualify advanced KLA systems at customer sites globally, ensuring installations are completed on schedule and meet quality standards
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues during installation by identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions
• Perform setup, alignment, calibration, and verification of highly complex semiconductor capital equipment
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with KLA regions, engineering, and customer teams to verify system performance and transfer tool ownership
• Provide clear status updates to all stakeholders throughout the installation process
• Complete installation documentation and administrative requirements accurately and on time
• Secure warranty sign‑off on newly installed tools

Operate independently while following documented procedures, exercising sound technical judgment within defined guidelines. Work under guidance from managers and senior IEs, with increasing autonomy as experience grows. Engage effectively in cross‑cultural and cross‑functional environments. Extensive travel domestically and internationally to support customer installations worldwide.

• Strong knowledge of electronics, optics, mechanical, electro‑mechanical, and electro‑optical systems
• Experience with high‑vacuum systems strongly preferred
• Comfort working with computer systems, operating systems, and networking (Windows, Unix, or similar environments)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office…