Chemistry R&D 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 ECI Division at KLA delivers chemical metrology and process control solutions that enable precise monitoring and control of critical wet process steps in semiconductor and advanced packaging manufacturing. By providing real time chemical analysis and management systems, ECI helps customers prevent yield limiting defects, stabilize complex metallization and cleaning processes and support next generation device and packaging technologies.

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

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, KLA helps chipmakers worldwide ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Our ECI Technology division leads the way in chemical process control, delivering precision analysis for consistent wafer quality and enabling advanced chip design. We design analytical equipment that meets the rigorous demands of chemical processes for damascene, wafer-level packaging, clean, and wet etch processes.

At KLA, innovation happens at the atomic level—and chemistry is at the heart of it. As an intern in ECI, you'll work side-by-side with experienced scientists and engineers in a fast-paced, industrial research environment where your work directly influences next-generation manufacturing technologies!

A a Summer 2027 intern, you will work on the following:

• New method developments for R&D.
• Chemical experiments involving electrochemical analysis, spectroscopy, chromatography (HPLC, IC), and other advanced techniques.
• Data analysis, and modeling
• Preparing reports with summary of findings in the experiments

This position is open to candidates who meet the following:

• Currently pursuing a PhD or a high-level Master's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a closely related field
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience in wet analytical chemistry
• Spectroscopy: NIR, UV-VIS, Raman, ICP, ICP-MS
• Chromatography: HPLC, IC, GC, method development, method validation
• Electrochemistry: CVS (Cyclic Voltammetric Stripping), ISE (ion selective electrode)
• Analytical chemistry:
  Titration, pH
• Data analysis: quantitative modeling, multivariate analysis, ANN, machine learning, chemometrics, PLS, PCA

• Work on cutting-edge technology that powers the semiconductor industry.
• Gain hands‑on experience with complex chemistry equipment
• Learn from industry experts in a collaborative environment
• Opportunity to make a real impact on next-generation device development

Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineer, or related field

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