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. KLA Instruments™ is our instrumentation division, which designs advanced metrology and inspection instruments used in both R&D and production across industries and academia. Our tools—ranging from optical profilers and nano-indenters to thin film and defect inspection systems—enable precise surface and material analysis. We partner closely with customers to enable R&D, improve yield, optimize processes, and reduce production costs through innovative hardware, software and application expertise.
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:
Deliver well-defined features/components with high-level guidance: estimate work, communicate risks/tradeoffs, and deliver on schedule
Collaborate cross-functionally across the development lifecycle to define architecture and create system- and subsystem-level requirements/specifications
Implement and debug multithreaded code and support integration across system/subsystem boundaries (including hardware/software interfaces)
Develop C#/.NET and C++ software for GUI and data analysis; write maintainable code and use AI-assisted tools responsibly under company security policies
Build robust unit/integration tests and use profiling to improve performance, memory usage, reliability, and security
Participate in design reviews and incorporate feedback from stakeholders and subject matter experts
Troubleshoot system/subsystem issues using logs and experiments; contribute to root-cause analysis, implement fixes with guidance, and help prevent recurrence
Demonstrate motivation to independently learn and apply new software technologies
Travel - Occasional travel may be required to KLA headquarters, customer sites, or other business locations. Travel is expected to be less than 10% of working time.
Skils & Qualifications:
A solid understanding and demonstrated track record in the practice of software engineering fundamentals, including architecture, data structures, design patterns, event-driven design, multithreaded design, testing, and debugging.
Experience with:
Microsoft .NET languages including VB.NET and C#
C++ programming
Microsoft Visual Studio development environment
Source code control systems such as Git
Adherence to software design and coding standards
Ability to communicate effectively with peers, interdisciplinary engineering groups, customers, and suppliers, including delivering clear technical presentations
Adept at collaborating with teams across the US, Europe, and Asia
Self-driven individual with strong technical ability, a systematic approach, and excellent problem-solving skills
Preferred:
Experience contributing to architecture and design for complex subsystems and influencing technical decisions through strong design and code reviews
Experience improving performance and diagnostics/observability for system-level software
Experience collaborating across teams on system…