Mechanical 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. KLA's Central Engineering organization is made up of nine Centers of Excellence (CoEs) spanning disciplines like automation, motion control, sensors, platform design, and packaging. Each CoE contributes not only technical deliverables but also deep expertise, best practices, and advanced tools that elevate both what we build—and how we build it.

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 Responsibilities

• Design and develop robotic mechanical systems for semiconductor equipment maintenance, inspection, monitoring, diagnostics, and automation applications.
• Develop robotic system concepts and mechanical architectures based on application requirements, including robot configuration, degrees of freedom (DOF), workspace, reach, payload, accessibility, stiffness, accuracy, and maintainability.
• Own the complete mechanical product development cycle, including requirement definition, feasibility study, concept development, engineering analysis, 3D modeling, detailed drawings, component selection, prototype development, testing, system integration, and design release.
• Perform robot kinematics and dynamics analysis, including workspace analysis, coordinate transformation, motion range, velocity/acceleration, payload, inertia, joint loading, structural stiffness, and positioning accuracy.
• Design and select key robotic components, including motors, actuators, gearboxes, bearings, linear/rotary guides, brakes, encoders, sensors, transmission mechanisms, and cable management systems.
• Perform engineering analyses including tolerance analysis, GD&T, error budgeting, FEA, static/dynamic analysis, modal analysis, vibration analysis, and structural optimization to ensure performance and reliability.
• Develop mechanical interfaces and integration solutions for sensors, cameras, vision systems, and other inspection or diagnostic devices used by robotic systems.
• Collaborate closely with Robotics Software, Electrical, Systems, Manufacturing, and Field Service engineers on robot control integration, calibration, sensing, collision prevention, safety/interlock design, system debugging, and performance optimization.
• Build and evaluate prototypes and troubleshoot complex robotic system issues related to positioning accuracy, repeatability, vibration, structural deformation, mechanical interference, joint performance, wear, and reliability.
• Complete engineering documentation including BOMs, assembly drawings, part drawings, design analysis reports, test reports, specifications, and assembly/calibration instructions.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Automation, or a related engineering field; or Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong fundamentals in mechanical engineering, including mechanism design, machine design, tolerance analysis, GD&T, error budgeting, materials, manufacturing processes, and assembly processes.
• Solid understanding of robotics fundamentals, including robot mechanisms, degrees of freedom, forward/inverse kinematics, coordinate transformations, workspace analysis, statics, and dynamics.
• Experience with 3D mechanical design tools such as Creo, SolidWorks, NX, or CATIA.
• Good understanding of robotic actuation and transmission systems, including servo motors, BLDC motors, gearboxes, harmonic drives, belt/cable drives, ball screws, linear actuators, bearings, encoders, and brakes.
• Ability to perform engineering analyses including static/dynamic analysis, FEA, vibration and modal analysis using tools such as Ansys, Abaqus, Creo Simulation, or equivalent.
• Strong hands-on engineering and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to combine theoretical analysis, simulation, prototype testing, and experimental data to solve complex electromechanical system problems.
• Good written and verbal English communication skills and the ability to work effectively in global cross-functional engineering teams.
  

Minimum Qualifications

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.