Technical Director - Inspection - Boise ID (Strategic Business Unit)

Company Overview

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group/Division

The Customer Engagement (CE) team is our field based, customer facing organization consisting of Technical Engagement Managers and Application Engineers. The team partners closely with our customers to provide a comprehensive portfolio of products, software, and expertise, to help customers manage yield throughout their fabrication process—from research and development to final volume production. Responsibilities of this group include maintaining strategic client relationships, partnering with our sales team in identifying and closing sales opportunities, ensuring our products meet performance capabilities & expectations, providing critical solutions for improved yield performance, and collecting requirements for future products by understanding customer processes and technology trends. Partnering with our sales organization and factory divisions, this diverse and dynamic team helps ensure alignment between customer needs and product offerings to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Responsibilities

The Technical Director in one of our Strategic Business Unit is responsible for directing and leading all product and non-product technology programs targeting early insertion of KLA’s (KLA’s) tools/technologies into our strategic customers advanced technology nodes.  The individual will be the primary technical interface to our strategic customer and KLA’s engineering teams and will lead, define and drive our technical engagements across the KLA Defect Inspection portfolio with focus on solving specific yield- and process-related challenges.  The successful candidate will work closely with our divisional technical leaders to help create and shape these engagements.

The individual will possess a deep understand of core and beyond core requirements and connect and align customers technology roadmap to KLA’s advanced product roadmap to create the best alignment possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for developing technical strategies and gain alignment with product division GM’s, heads of engineering, and business unit sales

• Lead multidisciplinary, cross-divisional teams toward the achievement of technical and commercial objectives

• Build strong working relationships both internally and externally at all levels within the organization.  This will require frequent interaction with KLA’s executive team.

• Find creative ways to continually move the customer relationship and technical engagement forward

• Ability to lead, mentor and develop a team of experience, highly technical engineers that will report to this individual

• Ideal candidate will live in Boise area.  ~25% travel required

• Lead strategic roadmap discussions, competitive and red team reviews, track  and analyze customer use cases to create new opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD (MS/PhD preferred) with a minimum of 10 years of experience in Semiconductor Fabrication (Yield, Integration, Lithography or related discipline) or in Engineering or Technology in the area of imaging, optics or electro-optics R&D

• Must be a strong customer advocate, listens and understand needs, and can champion needs to internal stakeholders

• Strong management skills; experience hiring and developing high-performance teams; objective setting as an objective and driven leader

• Extensive experience and ties to Fab Process in Lithography, Etch, CMP, Deposition, Yield or Integration

• Semiconductor Technology