Mechanical Design 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 e-Beam division plays a critical role in KLA’s inspection ecosystem, with tools that deliver high-resolution, timely insights into defects and critical locations on the wafer. Used alongside KLA’s patterned and bare wafer inspectors, e-Beam systems help our customers quickly identify and understand yield-impacting issues—enabling faster, more effective actions to correct the manufacturing process.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Perform the development of mechanical subsystems and contribute to platform architecture.
• Translate product and system needs into clear engineering requirements and technical solutions.
• Drive technical decisions with minimal oversight, including feasibility studies, risk retirement, and requirements definition.
• Own solutions throughout the full development lifecycle, from concept and detailed design through prototype, integration, validation, release, and production.
  • Develop mechanical designs and engineering drawings using 3D CAD tools.
  • Perform engineering analysis including thermal, fluid, vibration, structural, tolerance, and finite element analysis.
  • Perform design reviews and technical discussions across multidisciplinary and cross-division teams.
  • Drive prototype builds, material procurement, subsystem integration, system-level testing, and performance validation.
  • Work directly with suppliers to improve manufacturability and mitigate technical risks
  • Develop integration, test, troubleshooting, and service procedures to support production and field teams.

Qualifications:

• Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals, including design principles, machine elements, materials, and fabrication methods.
• Experience with designing electromechanical or precision-engineered systems is desired.
• Experience with vacuum chamber, wafer handling and transfer systems, and machine safety related design is desired.
• Experience with high voltage related design is desired.
• Experience with chemical and particulate contamination control is highly desirable.
• Experience with cross-functional interfaces and subsystem integration requirements.
• Proficiency with 3D CAD tools; Creo/ProE experience is beneficial.
• Ability to lead technical decisions, communicate trade-offs, and drive resolution of complex engineering problems.
• Strong analytical, simulation, and/or hands-on engineering experience, with demonstrated expertise in at least one of the following areas:
  • Vacuum systems
  • Mechanical design for high-voltage applications
  • System integration
  • Structural analysis and system dynamics
  • Thermal management, fluid flow, and cooling systems
  • EMI
• Demonstrated experience owning hardware or subsystem development from concept through integration and validation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to thrive and adapt in a fast-paced semiconductor industry environment.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate (Academic) Degree and related work experience of 3 years;
• Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 6 years;
• Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 8 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.