Technical Program / Project Manager

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 Surfscan® division develops unpatterned wafer inspection systems that detect nanoscale particles and surface defects early in semiconductor manufacturing. Its systems monitor wafer quality across a wide range of applications, enabling faster issue identification and improved process control.

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.

What You'll Do

·    Program leadership: Own the integrated program plan from definition through delivery, including scope, milestones, dependencies, critical path, decision points, and measurable outcomes.

·    Cross-functional execution: Align software, systems, electrical, algorithms, applications, and hardware teams around priorities, commitments, and release readiness.

·    Product integration: Coordinate integration across High-Performance Computing (HPC) software, tool software, hardware, and processing workflows to deliver a reliable bench solution.

·    Risk and issue management: Identify technical, schedule, resource, and operational risks early; drive mitigation, escalation, and replanning when conditions change.

·    Product lifecycle governance: Lead the team through KLA's Product Lifecycle process, ensuring plans, evidence, risks, and cross-functional readiness are clear at key decision points.

·    Release and operational readiness: Partner with marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, install, and service teams to prepare solutions for deployment, support, and scale.

·    Customer readiness: Work with marketing and global customers to understand operating environments and define site-preparation and IT requirements that support successful product adoption.

·    Executive communication: Use relevant metrics and concise, objective updates to communicate progress, decisions, trade-offs, risks, and business impact.

·    Team leadership: Build strong working relationships, encourage ownership, resolve ambiguity, and influence multidisciplinary teams without relying on direct authority.

What You Bring

·    Experience leading complex technical programs or new-product development from concept through integration, release, and customer adoption.

·    Strong understanding of product architectures that combine software, computing infrastructure, hardware, processing workflows, and real-time analysis.

·    Demonstrated ability to build and manage integrated schedules, dependencies, critical paths, risks, and mitigation plans.

·    Technical judgment to ask the right questions, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure plans address performance, reliability, cost, manufacturability, and serviceability.

·    Ability to translate business goals and customer needs into clear program priorities and execution plans.

·    Strong leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and written and verbal communication skills.

·    Experience using meaningful indicators to communicate progress, readiness, quality, and program impact.

·    Working knowledge of Agile, iterative, and waterfall development approaches, with the judgment to apply the right method to the work.

Preferred Experience

·    Semiconductor equipment, industrial systems, scientific instrumentation, or another complex hardware-software product environment.

·    Customer engagement, feedback analysis, deployment readiness, or product adoption planning.

·    HPC platforms, data processing pipelines, software release systems, digital twins, replay or simulation environments.

Formal program or project management practices and tools; a PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent credential is helpful but not required.

Minimum Qualifications

·    Doctorate degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience; or

·    Master's degree with at least 8 years of relevant experience; or

·    Bachelor's degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience.

Relevant experience may come from technical program management, project management, systems engineering, product development, software or hardware delivery, or a closely related field.

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.