KLA—Software Quality Engineer

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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 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. 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. Software Quality Engineer Responsibilities: The selected Software QA Engineer will join a world-class software team to architect, implement, and scale test automation solutions that drive quality across KLA products. They will be a technically strong individual contributor and leader, responsible for building AI-augmented automation frameworks that ensure the reliability of all released products. They will champion modern testing practices with a sharp focus on automation coverage, infrastructure excellence, and continuous improvement of the qualification process. They must be able to partner with cross-functional teams globally to resolve quality issues quickly. Key Responsibilities Include: - Identify, evaluate, and implement test automation frameworks and tools that deliver measurable value across the qualification lifecycle — including functional, regression, performance, and reliability testing. - 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. - Integrate AI capabilities into the test automation framework — including self-healing locators, intelligent test generation, and autonomous test execution — to improve test resilience and reduce maintenance overhead. - Leverage deep knowledge of software systems and application architecture to design scalable infrastructure solutions that empower the test automation team. - Assess automation feasibility of test cases and script them for automatic execution across new and existing product features. - Technically interact with Algorithms, System Engineering, Application Engineering, Marketing and Manufacturing, and Customer Support teams across global locations for various requirements. - Participate in all stages of software development including deployment and troubleshooting at customer sites. Represent the SQE team in product lifecycle and key program meetings. - Travel to customer fabrication facilities to understand customer use cases, deploy software, and troubleshoot. Minimum Qualifications - Must have Master's Level Degree in CS or related fields - Must have excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skill. Must also be self-driven, yet a strong team player - Background in IC processing/Semiconductor equipment is a plus. - Hands-on experience with automation tools is a plus - Must be desiring to travel and enjoy working in other cultures. 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.