Division 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 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.

Key Duties

Problem Solving & Trouble Shooting

• Supporting key customer escalations in the region
• Data collection & analysis, reporting
• Detailed problem solving using 8D methodology

Product & Process development

• Identifying options to suit the product based on customer needs
• Develop solutions on site with customers for those needs using existing toolset
• Where outside toolset capability, feeding back customer developments, engagement & needs to UK business unit
• Develop new processes in line with KLA roadmaps
• Plan, work and implement solutions in a safe, logical and timely manner

Tool Qualification

• Together with the field team obtaining field acceptance on customer’s sites

The ideal candidate should possess:

Hands on experience in Etch, PVD & CVD process development & applications, with some hardware knowledge in tools used in wafer fabs would be highly advantageous.

• A Creative and innovative approach to problem solving leading to novel but practical solutions.
• The foresight and ability to collect, filter and analyse data to solve complex problems.
• Good analytical skills including the ability to be hands on in fabs, measuring films, coordinating activities from experiment to result & reporting
• Good oral and written communication skills
• The ability to work both autonomously and as part of a small team.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum bachelor’s degree in engineering or applied science with 5 years of wafer fab experience

Master’s or PhD with 3 years of wafer fab 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.