Division Customer Engagement Applications 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 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.

Position Overview

We are looking for an Applications Engagement Engineer to join our global CAPRES team, supporting customers with primary focus on Korea.

In this role, you will support application development and customer engagements for advanced electrical sheet resistance metrology solutions using Micro- and Macro 4-point probe technologies. Working closely with regional engagement leads, customers, and internal teams, you will ensure that KLA solutions deliver measurable value in both R&D and high-volume manufacturing environments.

Job Description

• Develop and implement applications for KLA electrical metrology systems, with focus on sheet resistance measurements.
• Define and execute characterization plans and analyze electrical measurement data to support customer evaluations and application deployment.
• Identify and align the most suitable metrology approach (micro 4PP, macro 4PP) with internal and external stakeholders, increasing customer value compared to existing metrology solutions.
• Develop application methodologies, test strategies, and best known methods (BKMs), and document results in evaluation reports and application notes
• Provide hands-on support at customer sites, including recipe setup, optimization, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis of application issues
• Implement and qualify new use cases at customer sites, ensuring successful adoption in both R&D and high-volume manufacturing
• Capture customer requirements, application challenges, and future technology needs, and translate them into actionable recommendations for KLA headquarter for tool roadmap and software improvements
• Contribute to application and evaluation projects in collaboration with regional teams and KLA headquarters, and support knowledge transfer and technical guidance within the teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven semiconductor process engineering experience in Ion Implantation, Metallization, Diffusion/CVD, or Etch
• Expertise in process characterization utilizing sheet resistance metrology and manufacturing data analytics.
• Demonstrated success in process optimization, yield enhancement, and cross-functional problem solving.
• Strong experience in customer-facing roles, including on-site engagement and technical discussions
• Ability to independently solve complex technical problems and application solutions
• Contribution to customer evaluations and product releases within project teams
• Strong expertise across multiple application domains
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, marketing, and field teams

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate (PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related field with 0+ years of relevant experience; or

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience; or

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience

• Strong understanding of semiconductor applications, device characterization, or process engineering

• Solid knowledge of engineering principles related to electrical and magnetic measurements and data analysis

• Ability to independently analyze complex problems and develop effective technical solutions

• Experience with data analysis tools (e.g., Python, MATLAB, JMP, or similar)

• Strong communication and presentation skills in English

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.