Regional Development 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 Measurement, Analytics and Control (MACH) division is KLA’s software powerhouse, responsible for developing high-performance software platforms that support semiconductor manufacturing. MACH delivers cutting-edge technologies in patterning analytics, modeling, and data science—empowering chipmakers to ramp next-gen devices faster and more efficiently. Our cross-functional team of research scientists, software engineers, apps engineers and process engineers are solving the industry’s most complex technical problems.

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.

The MACH Division at KLA is a global leader in semiconductor analytics, simulation, and process optimization. We deliver cutting-edge solutions that empower fabs to achieve higher yield, better process control, and faster innovation cycles.

What We Do: MACH is the centralized data hub for analysis and simulations in semiconductor fabrication. Our portfolio includes:

• 5D Analyzer®: A scalable metrology modeling and runtime control platform.
• PROLITH™ & ProDATA®: Industry-leading lithography simulation and patterning tools.
• OVALiS: Scanner data monitoring and optimization.
• KLARITY & SPOT: Defect and yield management powered by predictive analytics.
• aiSIGHT & aiHOPE: AI-driven inspection and design decomposition engines 

Core Technologies:

• Runtime overlay control and indirect overlay metrology.
• Advanced modeling engines for stochastic defect prediction.
• Automated defect classification using SEM and optical inspection images.
• Design-based detection, classification, and measurement workflows 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for various pre and post sales application support activities.
• The candidate will have the ability to work with a customer team at customer sites to conduct investigations, gather and analyze data, understand root causes of process errors, and develop and implement process control solutions to reduce killer defects and improve yield.
• Engaging with customers in defining problem statements, resolving customer issues, generating best known method (BKM) documents and other training material
• This engineer is expected to work with customers to publish papers at industry symposiums or in technical journals.
• Projects related to new product introduction: definition, characterization, alpha testing, beta testing, evaluation and customer use case development
• Coworking with engineering team to define software new features, bug fixing and engaging in roadmap design
• Learn new tasks and adapt to change, establish priorities, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have semiconductor process control or applications experience
• Familiar in chip manufacture process, metrology/defect related error and solution
• The candidate must be self-driven, yet a strong team player. 
• The candidate must have good oral and written communication skill in English, organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Software development and scripting skills are a plus. 
• Travel to customer sites are required.

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.