Algorithm Development 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 Broadband Plasma (BBP) division is the market-leading optical inspection system used by logic, foundry, and memory customers to detect critical defects at advanced nodes. These tools combine broadband plasma technology with unmatched sensitivity and speed to support high-volume manufacturing.

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 Algorithm Development Engineer position belongs to Korea home team, part of HQ engineering organization for Broad-band Plasma wafer inspection in the Global Product Group (GPG) of KLA Corporation. The charter of the engineering organization is to develop and provide inline monitoring solutions to the semiconductor fabrication industry for detecting and understanding yield limiting defects that impact their cutting-edge devices. Korea home team will focus on solving/addressing SS/Hynix specific challenges. This position offers a unique opportunity to those who are seeking technical challenges in the following domains: defect detection and binning, real-time image processing, machine learning and computer vision algorithms.

 Responsibilities 

 Job responsibilities of this position include:

Provide algorithm technical support for escalations in various of product life cycle phases onsite.

Interacting with SS/Hynix business unit, GSS (Global Service Support) and customers to address issues and investigate solutions.

Analyzing the signal and noise characteristics of current and emerging IC yield limiting defects, formulating algorithmic solutions, and validating them via simulation and prototyping.

Investigating feasibility of advance algorithm for next generation product through collaboration with technology and system architect group.

Provide prototype algorithm solution for special customer engagement project at customer site.

Working with product system engineering team to define the algorithm performance specification and use it to guide the algorithm design and implementation.

Act as the algorithm representative during system level hardware/software integration, trouble shooting.

Participate in software quality assurance activities required by the software development process.

Occasional (<=10%) travel to HQ is required

Qualifications:

Strong problem analysis and solving skills

Curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies

Solid theoretical background in signal/image processing and computer vision

Research and/or software development experience on Unix/Linux and Windows platform.

Proficient in C/C++, solid CUDA programming skills.

Must be an effective communicator able to share technical information with functional teams and provide executive level reports to management and customers.

Throughput optimization experience is desired.

Background in pattern recognition, computational geometry and machine learning is a plus.

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.

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.