Product Development 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 e-Beam division plays a critical role in KLA’s inspection ecosystem, with tools that deliver high-resolution, timely insights into defects and critical locations on the wafer. Used alongside KLA’s patterned and bare wafer inspectors, e-Beam systems help our customers quickly identify and understand yield-impacting issues—enabling faster, more effective actions to correct the manufacturing process.

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.

• Candidate should have Doctorate/Master's degree in either of Physics, Engineering Physics, Engineering Design, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Materials and Metallurgical Engineering.
• Knowledge in instrumentation, signal processing and optical/electro-optical systems such as electron microscopes is preferred.
• Experience with Vacuum Systems, Electron Optics, and High Voltage for scanning electron microscopes or equivalent a plus.
• Hands-on experiences in machine control and/or scientific data analysis is highly desired.
• Candidate must have demonstrated an ability in setting-up experiments, modelling and data analysis, solving complex technical problems.
• Candidate must have demonstrated proficiency in scripting language (MATLAB, Python, others) for scientific data collection & analysis.
• Finally, the candidate must have excellent communication, interpersonal skills and ability to create effective technical presentations.
• Minimum Qualifications
• The product subsystems include light optics, electron optics, imaging, detectors, HV electronics, vacuum systems, wafer transfer systems, detection and classification algorithms, machine control, and UI software.
• The candidate is expected to gain a detailed functional understanding of the entire product, act independently, devise and drive innovative analyses and solutions for complex problems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system-level issues at customer sites by performing root cause analysis, utilizing diagnostic tools, and collaborating with cross-functional experts to deliver timely solutions.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to enhance product performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
• Contribute to the development of next-generation products by defining software, algorithm, and hardware requirements, followed by design validation, characterization, system integration, and product lifecycle support.
• Candidate is expected to be provide on-site customer support in Taiwan. The overall travel load is between 90-100%. Base location would be Hsinchu, Taiwan
• Work within the engineering team on designing new or improving designs of existing electron-beam imaging products for the semiconductor equipment market.
• For necessary training, candidate would be trained at our Singapore and US offices

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Level Degree or PhD

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.