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.

This job is in the KLA MACH Computational Patterning Products group.

This group develops and supports software for advanced photolithography simulation and

modeling used by leading-edge chip fabs around the world use to optimize chip yield, optimize

processes and masks, reduce defectivity and increase efficiency of metrology, inspection and

review tools.

The Applications Engineer working in the MACH Computational Patterning team will work

closely with customer technologists and the KLA algorithm development team to provide

software solutions that resolve customer problems.

The Applications Engineer is expected to be present at the customer site >75% of his/her time

and able travel 10-15% of the time to other customer sites. Taiwanese customers are located

mainly in and around Hsinchu city in Taiwan Province.

The Applications Engineer will be responsible for the following:

- Support the application of MACH software at customers

- Install, maintain and develop software recipes based on required customer use-cases

- Identify and report software bugs, reproduce them for R&D and engineering to troubleshoot

and repair

- Install and test new software releases

- Help customer qualify and validate software results

- Clearly identify the customer's problem statements. Clearly communicate customer problem

statements. Report progress updates to all relevant parties, including customer when

appropriate and relevant KLA colleagues

- Develop training materials and communicate Best Known Methods to customers.

- Provide demos and training to customer and other support engineers

- Build strong relationships with the customer

- Provide feedback to KLA development engineers on ideas for product improvement

To achieve satisfactory results, the Applications Engineer is expected to work closely with

other functional groups in MACH including R&D, engineering, sales and marketing. The

Applications Engineer must represent KLA in a professional manner that will build trust and

long-lasting working relationships

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

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.