Applications Engineer

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. The SPTS division provides advanced wafer processing solutions—including etch, deposition and vapor-based technologies—designed for R&D through high-volume production. With a global presence and strong customer support network, SPTS helps manufacturers across industries improve performance, yield and cost-efficiency. It also offers comprehensive service and spare parts through a worldwide network of service centers and qualified local agents.

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.

• Develop, characterize, and optimize plasma etch and deposition processes on SPTS platforms.
• Execute process development programs to meet customer and product performance requirements.
• Analyze experimental results and provide data-driven recommendations for process improvements.
• Support customer demonstrations, evaluations, acceptance testing, and technology transfers.
• Collaborate with R&D, Product Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Service teams to define and deliver new process capabilities.
• Troubleshoot process and hardware-related issues, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions.
• Generate technical reports, application notes, process documentation, and customer presentations.
• Provide technical support to customer-facing teams and participate in customer meetings and technical reviews.
• Monitor market trends, customer needs, and competitive technologies to identify new application opportunities.
• Contribute to new product introductions and roadmap development for future process capabilities.
• Support training activities for customers, field applications engineers, and internal stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Level Degree in Science, Physics, Chemistry, or any relevant Engineering Degree

• Process/application engineers or similar with 2-4 years experience
• Experiences in biomed, pharmacy, chemical industry, or oil industry are welcome too
• Great attention to detail and good communicators

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement 

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

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.