Associate / Technical Lead

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The Surfscan group includes a team of engineers, technology development, apps engineers and product marketing focused on technology that enables wafer, IC and equipment manufacturers to develop, qualify and monitor their process tools. Defects and process non-uniformities detected on Surfscan equipment allow for early identification of yield excursions. The flagship Surfscan products include the SPx platforms for wafer surface quality and wafer defect inspection tools and systems for inspection of polished wafers, epi wafers and engineered substrates during the wafer fabrication process.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Role:

Act as Software Architect to engage in creating/driving technology roadmap for SFS division's products and advancing developer productivity through tools and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Be the technology evangelist for Surfscan product division
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Acquire knowledge of key use cases in Bare wafer inspection (IC & Wafer customers)
• Creates concepts/prototypes for software and helps turning them into plans for execution
• Vivid reader of technology and process trends in industry to define the tools, coding standards and platforms to be used by software team
• Interact with various software teams within and outside division to understand their barriers and come up with suitable remedial (incremental and disruptive) for productivity improvements and software modernization
• Interact with various stake holders, project managers, and developers to envision, model, and design the solutions for a problem at hand.
• Monitor the code check-ins across team regularly and review to ensure the design quality, code clarity, and adherence of coding standards.
• Mentor and collaborate with the development team and enhance their knowledge continuously.
• Develop software requirement specification and detailed design specification documents covering every aspect unambiguously – such as functionality, performance, viability, scalability, comprehensibility, security, and technological constraints.

Skills:

Hard/Technical:

• Extensive technical and product knowledge
• Strong coding skills in multiple programming languages
• Whole rounded assessment of competing alternatives to solve problems at hand
• Ability to navigate from problem to requirements to solution - They are very aware of the tradeoffs in design and implications to SW roadmap

Soft:

• Exhibit consistency over all competencies in delivering great software repeatedly
• Critical thinking, creative thinking, and strong problem solving
• Clear communication, articulation, enable team to rally to achieve high value results

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) or work experience of 0 years , Master's Level Degree or work experience of 2 years , Bachelor's Level Degree or work experience of 3 years

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

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