Senior Electronics 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 SPTS division provides advanced wafer processing solutions—including etch, deposition and vapor-based technologies—designed for R&D through high-volume production. With a global presence and strong customer support network, SPTS helps manufacturers across industries improve performance, yield and cost-efficiency. It also offers comprehensive service and spare parts through a worldwide network of service centers and qualified local agents.

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.

Part of the KLA Engineering division, the Platform Hardware Group is a multi-disciplined team, providing automation solutions to enable the integration of KLA process systems into customer fabrication factories worldwide.  As part of the team, you will primarily work on control and safety equipment used on our wafer handling systems.

The successful candidate will be a multi-skilled electronics engineer with a good level of design experience using PC/PLC based controls and systems.  You would be supporting the other engineers in the group with equipment design/integration and expected to work to tight deadlines in a highly regulated industry.  This is primarily an office-based role with some ‘hands on’ activities as required.   You would show initiative and be motivated to learn new skills, very adaptable and keen to take advantage of the opportunities KLA can offer in progressing your personal development. 

Main responsibilities:

• Electrical / electronic control and interface design
• Electrical assembly design
• Analogue and digital circuit design
• Embedded controller design
• PCB designing
• Designing critical safety circuits
• Technical report writing
• Producing engineering drawings, build and test guides.
• MS Windows imaging of embedded controllers

Preferred skills and experience:

• Minimum Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience
• Proven experience working in an electrical/electronic design role
• Good understanding of electrical regulations
• Design of safety circuits would be advantageous.
• AutoCAD Electrical or equivalent experience

You will be based in the Newport factory but may also involve a small amount of international travel to suppliers or customers.  The role is office based however KLA offer flexibility working conditions in terms of start time.  Work from home is available on one day a week basis as business requirements allow. 

Occasional domestic and international travel, including to the United States, may be required as part of this role

What we will offer you

This position offers an excellent opportunity for Engineers who are looking to establish a career in a fast-growing, award-winning company with a clearly defined career development path.

KLA’s benefits package includes:

Annual leave starting at 25 days (plus bank holidays), contributory pension scheme, cash health plan, cycle to work scheme, global bonus plan, share scheme, rewards scheme, life assurance, generous shift allowance and overtime premiums.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience
• Proven experience working in an electrical/electronic design role
• Good understanding of electrical regulations
• Design of safety circuits would be advantageous.
• AutoCAD Electrical or equivalent experience

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.