KLA—Engineer, Product Applications

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Description: 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 to enable 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. What You'll Do In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise. Group/Division With decades of expertise in printed circuit board (PCB) technology, leading manufacturers worldwide rely on our solutions to deliver next-generation designs with precision and efficiency. Driving innovation in advanced PCB applications ICS and Large Panel Level Packaging, our Application Team plays a critical role in bridging technology and customer experience. This team ensures that our products not only meet technical specifications but also deliver exceptional value to customers across diverse industries, including automotive, consumer electronics, telecommunications, and high-performance computing. Our mission is to enable seamless integration solutions into customer workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability, and superior performance. Operating globally, the Application Team partners closely with engineering, product development, and customer-facing teams to deliver best-in-class support and technical expertise. Responsibilities - Customer Engagement & Technical Support Serve as the primary technical interface for customers, providing guidance on PCB application best practices and ensuring successful implementation. - Product Demonstration & Validation Showcase product capabilities and performance at customer sites and internal facilities, demonstrating technical advantages over competing solutions. - Feedback Integration Capture and analyze customer feedback to influence product development and continuous improvement across all levels of the organization. - Cross-Functional Collaboration Work closely with engineering, marketing, and software teams to align product features with customer requirements and emerging market trends. - Application Development Leadership Lead initiatives to develop new use cases, optimize workflows, and enhance customer experience through innovative application strategies. - Project Tracking & Reporting Monitor critical projects in real time, providing timely updates and actionable insights to stakeholders. - Next-Generation Solutions Contribute to the development and characterization of advanced PCB technologies and ICS, ensuring readiness for future market demands. Minimum Qualifications Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years About KLA We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us. Use of AI Statement At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset. We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees. KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.