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

Essential Responsibilities:

As a SW manager in this group, you will build and lead a team of smart software engineers to help our wafer inspection products to achieve the next level of performance through superior technology and the latest in software practices & machine learning. You will bring your proven experience in leading a team of engineers to conceive, design and deploy robust/scalable software for high-volume production and real time applications.With respect to the value add for the position offered, expect you to:Drive incremental value and make technical decisions that support strategic objectivesLeverage prior experience to advise against suboptimal approaches and one-time hacks, quickly pushing the team towards generic and robust solutionsTransform customer and business requirements into scalable and complete technical solutions backed by deep analysis in understandingEasily work with legacy frameworks, while embracing and implementing modern technologies and frameworksCommunicate effectively on technical and business topicsAcquire and demonstrate technical knowledge of LS-SWIFT product softwareMeet product timelines with good quality softwareWorks on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factorsEnsuring that detailed designs, code, and unit tests are consistent, robust, future-proof and scalable. Understand and make design and architectural improvements on existing software.Providing technical expertise to the estimation process. Create project plan, update higher management regularly on the progress.Acquire knowledge of key use cases in Patterned wafer inspectionIn conjunction with the Product Manager, identify, highlight, review and mitigate technical risksContribute to the continued improvement of the organization's development procedures, by looking for opportunities for improvement and proposing ideas for solutionCollaborate with cross-divisional and cross-functional teams across geographical zones to develop / deliver software solutions

Essential skills:

Good technical problem-solving skillsStrong understanding of Design patterns and Programming skills using any one of high-level languages - C#, C++, JavaStrong knowledge of Architecture patternsGood knowledge on open source software and varied technologies (web and thick client) and have a good understanding on the strengths and weaknesses of software architectures of these technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred work experiences in semiconductor processing / equipment industry or product companies  Must have excellent communication, organizational, analytical, leadership, and interpersonal skillsMust be self-driven, and a strong team playerGood understanding on High Performance computing and related technologies/aids (CPU, GPU performance comparison and related toolkits) along with Machine learning basics

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors, Masters or Doctorate in computer science, Math or a related technical field, or equivalent experience10+ years of relevant engineering experience2+ years people management experience preferred

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