Mathematician/Physicist/IT Business Analyst

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.

Most of the chips in your computer, tablet, or smartphone were likely optimized with our help!

As a trusted software solution provider within KLA — one of the leading equipment manufacturers in semiconductors — we build and maintain software that ensures a stable and efficient production process in semiconductor manufacturing. Our team in Dresden is looking for a Mathematician/Physicist/IT Business Analyst (f/m/d).

About the role

• Shape product features: Understand what our customers really need, and turn stakeholder concepts into a consistent part of the software that delivers maximum value with a lean, clear design.
• Own the specification: Create, maintain and improve software requirements so that everyone — customers, developers and testers — works from the same understanding.
• Connect people: Lead requirement and concept discussions, support the team by facilitating collaboration and removing communication barriers, and act as the link between our customer-facing experts and the development team.
• Build domain and software development expertise: Grow deep knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing, our products and our software development practices.
• Use AI where it helps Apply AI tools, agents and workflow automation to make requirements engineering, documentation and your own daily work better and faster.
  
  

Things to know

Within KLA, we collaborate with teams around the globe, including colleagues in the USA and China — and there are opportunities to travel and work with them on site. This role involves regular collaboration with our teams in Asian time zones. Our industry sets high standards for quality and reliability, and we meet them through strong engineering practices and far-reaching automation.

Minimum Qualifications

About You

• Education: A degree in mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science or a comparable field. A strong mathematical background is an advantage.
• Proven experience: You have worked in software, semiconductor or another technology-driven industry.
• AI proficiency: You already use AI tools, agents and automated workflows in your daily engineering work and want to push that further.
• Analytical thinking: You enjoy taking complex technical systems apart and finding the root of a problem.
• Communication: You work well with customers, engineers and developers, and you can build agreement between them.
• Attitude: Curiosity, perseverance and a passion for solving hard customer problems.

Why you should work for KLA

Joining KLA means becoming part of a global technology leader in the semiconductor industry, in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies.

We offer a supportive environment where your growth, well-being, and contributions truly matter.

Your benefits at a glance

• Dynamic and future-oriented industry at the forefront of technological innovation.
• Collaborative and supportive team.
• Access to extensive onboarding and continuous development opportunities to support your career growth.
• Permanent employment contract and long-term career stability.
• Competitive compensation package, including additional variable compensation, participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan and company pension scheme.
• 30 days of vacation per year, flexible working hours and possibility to work some days a week from home.
• Healthcare incentives and convenient gym membership.
• Location in the city center of Dresden with a great view from the terrace and a perfect transport connection.
• Company events, such as summer family events and Christmas celebrations.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we invite you to submit your application by clicking the “Apply” button. Please note that your application should be written in English.

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.