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 Broadband Plasma Division (BBP) provides market-leading patterned wafer optical inspection systems for leading-edge IC manufacturing. Logic, foundry, and memory customers depend on BBP products to detect yield-critical defects for process debug and excursion monitoring at advanced process nodes. BBP flagship products include the 29xx and 39xx series which leverage Broadband Plasma technology to capture a wide range of defects with ultimate sensitivity at the optical inspection speeds needed for inline defect monitoring.
Job
Description/Preferred
Qualifications
This person must be academically sound and possess strong technical abilities in working both
Core Business logic, User interface of On-Tool and Off-tool analysis software.
Demonstrates strong software engineering fundamentals, including problem solving, analytical reasoning, and advanced programming skills in
C++, C#, and Python
.
Proven expertise in modern web development using
Angular
, with strong hands‑on experience in:
Asynchronous programming
paradigms such as RxJS,
Observables, Promises
, and async/await
Designing responsive, performant user interfaces with a focus on clean component design and maintainability
Ensuring robust error handling, data flow consistency, and UI reliability in asynchronous workflows
Extensive experience designing and implementing
microservices-based architectures
, with hands‑on exposure to
containerized environments
(e.g.,
Docker, Kubernetes
) and service‑to‑service communication.
Strong proficiency in
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
and system architecture, with the ability to mentor and coach engineers on
SOLID
principles, design patterns, clean architecture, and sound architectural decision-making.
Demonstrates a strong foundation in programming fundamentals, with a clear passion for writing clean, readable, and unit‑testable code, adhering to industry best practices and coding standards.
Champions a quality-driven engineering culture, emphasizing unit testing, automated testing strategies, code reviews, refactoring, and continuous improvement.
Expert-level proficiency in
C++ and C#
, including experience with performance optimization, memory management, multithreading, and concurrency concepts.
Effective collaborator capable of working across cross-functional teams, bridging engineering, product, and business stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable, and business-aligned solutions.
Responsibilities
Gather Requirements, Design, Develop, integrate, and maintain software.
Ensuring detailed designs, code, and unit tests, robust and scalable.
Participate in requirements definition and review process. Provide Technical assessment of the impact of any changes to product requirements.
Closely work with Functional and Technical Manager to identify, highlight, review and mitigate technical risks
Lead a small team of engineers on large feature developments
Understand and make design and architectural improvements on existing software
Experience in:
All phases of SDLC
Strong proficiency in UML, OOP and
Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
and system architecture.
Ability to mentor and coach engineers on
SOLID
principles, design patterns, clean architecture, and sound architectural decision-making.
Multi-threading / Core Programming, Distributed Computing, Client Server Architecture
Architecting scalable computing frameworks leveraging cloud-specific technologies like Kubernetes, containerization (dockers)
Leveraging and integrating open source Messaging and logging framework such as ActiveMQ, ELK
Understanding of:
Workflow optimization
Parallel Computing paradigms for CPU, GPU
Migrating monoliths into cloud-native applications
Micro-service architectures and performance characteristics
Linux fundamentals, Kernel Internals, Shell Scripting, GDB Debugging
Hands-on in measuring and optimizing application for performance.
Improving I/O, network performance and memory mgmt.
Technology leader (with business acumen) for developing a High-performance distributed computing applications
Performing future-proof design, code and unit test
SME for technology stack – evaluates and integrates technologies related to HPC and private cloud for high availability and scalability needs
Excellent communicator and collaborator across functions and geographies
Minimum Qualifications
Master's Level Degree with work experience of 4 years or Bachelor's Level Degree with work experience of 5 years
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
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to
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