Technical Lead Associate

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The Broadband Plasma Division (BBP) provides market-leading patterned wafer optical inspection systems for leading-edge IC manufacturing. Logic, foundry, and memory customers depend on BBP products to detect yield-critical defects for process debug and excursion monitoring at advanced process nodes. BBP flagship products include the 29xx and 39xx series which leverage Broadband Plasma technology to capture a wide range of defects with ultimate sensitivity at the optical inspection speeds needed for inline defect monitoring.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

This person must be academically sound and possess strong technical abilities in working both Core Business logic, User interface of On-Tool and Off-tool analysis software.

• Demonstrates strong software engineering fundamentals, including problem solving, analytical reasoning, and advanced programming skills in C++, C#, and Python.
• Proven expertise in modern web development using Angular, with strong hands‑on experience in:
  • Asynchronous programming paradigms such as RxJS, Observables, Promises, and async/await
  • Designing responsive, performant user interfaces with a focus on clean component design and maintainability
  • Ensuring robust error handling, data flow consistency, and UI reliability in asynchronous workflows
• Extensive experience designing and implementing microservices-based architectures, with hands‑on exposure to containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and service‑to‑service communication.
• Strong proficiency in Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and system architecture, with the ability to mentor and coach engineers on SOLID principles, design patterns, clean architecture, and sound architectural decision-making.
• Demonstrates a strong foundation in programming fundamentals, with a clear passion for writing clean, readable, and unit‑testable code, adhering to industry best practices and coding standards.
• Champions a quality-driven engineering culture, emphasizing unit testing, automated testing strategies, code reviews, refactoring, and continuous improvement.
• Expert-level proficiency in C++ and C#, including experience with performance optimization, memory management, multithreading, and concurrency concepts.

• Effective collaborator capable of working across cross-functional teams, bridging engineering, product, and business stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable, and business-aligned solutions.

Responsibilities

• Gather Requirements, Design, Develop, integrate, and maintain software.
• Ensuring detailed designs, code, and unit tests, robust and scalable.
• Participate in requirements definition and review process. Provide Technical assessment of the impact of any changes to product requirements.
• Closely work with Functional and Technical Manager to identify, highlight, review and mitigate technical risks
• Lead a small team of engineers on large feature developments
• Understand and make design and architectural improvements on existing software

Experience in:

• All phases of SDLC
• Strong proficiency in UML, OOP and Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and system architecture.
• Ability to mentor and coach engineers on SOLID principles, design patterns, clean architecture, and sound architectural decision-making.
• Multi-threading / Core Programming, Distributed Computing, Client Server Architecture
• Architecting scalable computing frameworks leveraging cloud-specific technologies like Kubernetes, containerization (dockers)
• Leveraging and integrating open source Messaging and logging framework such as ActiveMQ, ELK

Understanding of:

• Workflow optimization
• Parallel Computing paradigms for CPU, GPU
• Migrating monoliths into cloud-native applications
• Micro-service architectures and performance characteristics
• Linux fundamentals, Kernel Internals, Shell Scripting, GDB Debugging
• Hands-on in measuring and optimizing application for performance.
• Improving I/O, network performance and memory mgmt.
• Technology leader (with business acumen) for developing a High-performance distributed computing applications
• Performing future-proof design, code and unit test
• SME for technology stack – evaluates and integrates technologies related to HPC and private cloud for high availability and scalability needs
• Excellent communicator and collaborator across functions and geographies

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Level Degree with work experience of 4 years or Bachelor's Level Degree with work experience of 5 years

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

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