Customer Acceptance 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

KLA has manufacturing sites worldwide. The Global Operations (GOPS) team, comprised of Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Installation and Quality, builds our leading-edge technology. GOPS partners with KLA's global supply base and design engineering teams to develop new products, working continuously to build better, faster and more cost-efficient solutions.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

The Customer Acceptance (CA) team plays a critical role in ensuring customer success by leading the qualification and delivery of KLA systems to some of the world's most advanced semiconductor manufacturers, including Intel, Samsung, TSMC, and other leading customers.

The team is responsible for validating system performance, meeting customer acceptance requirements, and enabling on-time tool delivery while maintaining the highest standards of quality and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute tool qualification in accordance with customer specifications and acceptance criteria

• Perform comprehensive data analysis and manage large, complex datasets to support qualification decisions, drive informed decision-making, and ensure compliance with customer requirements.

• Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, application, and quality-related issues, minimizing risks and ensuring successful tool acceptance.

• Drive execution of qualification and acceptance activities within defined schedules, ensuring on-time delivery.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and field teams to resolve technical challenges and accelerate issue resolution.

• Ensure all qualification deliverables are completed with a strong focus on quality, accuracy, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/ Bsc in Statistics/Information Systems, Practical Engineer in Electronics or a related field– an advantage

• Strong proficiency in Excel; experience with JMP and Python – an advantage

• High level of English proficiency (written and verbal)

• Shown ability to work with and analyze large datasets

• Fast learner with a strong analytical perspective

• Team player with strong collaboration skills

• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines

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.