Fleet 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 KLA Services team consists of Service Sales, Marketing, Spares Supply Chain Management, Field Operations, Engineering, Product Training, Digital Solutions and Analytics, and Technical Product Support. Our services organization maximizes the value of our customers' KLA assets – with highly trained service and product support engineers providing installation services and 24/7 technical support and parts delivery through our extensive supply chain network.

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 successful fleet engineer will be responsible for measuring fleet performance, discovering opportunities for optimal availability and throughput, capturing and documenting insights and analysis. Responsibilities also include recommending analytical features, crafting data science models to tackle technology and process challenges at the local fab level. Strong communication and influencing skills will be essential in delivering against company's objectives.

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex tool-related issues.
• Meticulous: Excellent attention to detail, ensuring accurate analysis and identification of excursions or outliers.
• Technical Skills: Proficient in programming languages (such as Python), statistical analysis techniques, data visualization tools, and semiconductor process control methodologies. Proficiency in interpreting, developing, and modifying Shell and Python scripts to automate tasks and improve efficiency.
• Proficiency in Analytical Tools: Experience working with dedicated analytical tools used in the semiconductor industry for real-time data analysis and monitoring, such as JMP and SQL.
• Communication and Influence: Strong communication and influencing skills to collaborate with other teams, present findings, propose solutions, and engage with local teams and customers.
• Adaptability: Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, quickly adapting to changing priorities and requirements.
• Industry Knowledge: Up-to-date knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing processes, process control methodologies, and equipment technologies.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Statistics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: Demonstrated ability working in the semiconductor industry, with the focus on areas including but not limited to process control, lithography, fab equipment management

Responsibilities:

• Fleet Management: Ensure the fleet and individual semiconductor equipment tools meet commitments in terms of availability, throughput, and consistency.
• Tool Connectivity: Ensure the data pipelines between the process control tools and the dedicated analytical platform work as expected.
• Statistical Analysis: Conduct statistical analysis on tool data and component performance to identify trends, patterns, and tackle potential issues that impact fleet of tools.
• Excursion Identification: Monitor tool behavior and data to identify excursions, anomalies, or deviations from expected performance and collaborate with the appropriate partners to facilitate root cause analysis.
• Fleet: Regularly assess the availability and performance of the tool fleet, measuring throughput and discovering opportunities to optimize the availability and throughput combination.
• Performance and Configuration Matching: Ensure consistency and alignment in tool performance and configurations across the fleet, maintaining high standards of quality and reliability.
• Teamwork: Engage with internal and external partners to cultivate effective collaboration, understand their requirements, address concerns, and to build strong partnerships in dynamic matrix organization.
• Impact the product: Assess local teams' and customers' feedback, and recommend features that would address the gaps and improve analytical platform, tool performance, and user experience.
• Documentation: Capture actions and analysis against new insights, document reasoning and analysis, and assemble lessons learned.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest advancements in process control tools, analyze industry trends, and propose innovative solutions to enhance tool performance, availability, and throughput. Streamline the feature requests by abiding to design for excellence principles.
• Technical skills: Be familiar with Linux and command line operations for efficient tool configuration, and data analysis tasks.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 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.

Total Rewards

Base Pay Range: $78,200.00 - $114,667.00 Annually
Primary Location: USA-AZ-Phoenix-KLA

KLA’s total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits, 401(K) including company matching, employee stock purchase program (ESPP), student debt assistance, tuition reimbursement program, development and career growth opportunities and programs, financial planning benefits, wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP), paid time off and paid company holidays, and family care and bonding leave.

Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed reflects the pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting. Actual pay depends on several factors, including state minimum pay wage rates, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education level or training. We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable. If applicable, your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

KLA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at [email protected] or at +1-408-352-2808 to request accommodation.

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