Senior Design Engineer

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

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The LS-SWIFT Division of KLA’s Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to deliver market-leading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors. Customers from the foundry, logic, memory, automotive, MEMS, advanced packaging and other markets rely upon high-sample wafer inspection information generated by LS-SWIFT products. LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable cost-effective patterned wafer defect detection for the industry’s most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leading-edge foundry, logic, DRAM, and NAND fabs. SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver all-wafer-surface (frontside, backside, and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC, MEMS, and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs. LS-SWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US, Singapore, India and Germany, and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia, Europe and North America.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

The LS-SWIFT Division seeks a Mechanical Design Engineer to augment our Optomechanical Design team.

The selected engineer will own developing Opto-mechanical subassemblies, covering the complete design process from requirements specification to feasibility studies, analysis, and FEA modeling, conceptual and detailed design, drawing using ProE, procurement and inspection of prototype parts, prototype assembly and testing, system integration, and handoff to manufacturing. A focus of this position will be on analytical and experimental validation and optimization of challenging mechanisms and optomechanical designs, as well as guiding junior designers.

Required qualifications:

• Proven mechanical engineering fundamentals, including design principles, machine elements, materials, Linear mechanisms, rotary mechanisms, flexure designs, Precision engineering, and fabrication methods.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills.
• Expert in using FEA - structural, thermal, Modal, Response spectrum, and CFD.
• Hands-on lab tests, automated data acquisition, and data analysis.
• Proficiency in Creo is preferred. Proficiency in the use of the Ansys FEA package.

Experience in several of these areas is desirable: precision mechanics, mechanisms, nano motion actuators, optomechanical systems, optics, optics alignment, design of semiconductor equipment or similar instruments, PCB packaging and thermal analysis, machine tools, motion controls.

KLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate with 8 years of design experience, or Master's with 15 years, or Bachelor's with 20 years of design experience.

Base Pay Range: $134,800.00