Algorithm 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 to enable 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.

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.

Kick-start your career as an Algorithm Engineer by working on the “Vision Engine”, the brain of

our inspection systems. By using groundbreaking technology and developing smart algorithms,

from classic computer vision to modern machine learning, we can solve challenging real-world

inspection problems. Through teamwork and growth opportunities you will become an expert

on our high performance vision systems and contribute directly to support our customers.

At KLA, early-career engineers grow by working side-by-side with experienced experts,

contributing to real products that shape the semiconductor industry. You will join collaborative,

multidisciplinary teams where knowledge sharing, mentorship, and technical excellence are

part of everyday work. Through hands-on projects, guidance from senior engineers, and

exposure to real customer challenges, you will continuously expand both your technical skills

and system-level understanding. If you thrive in a team environment, enjoy learning every day,

and want your work to truly matter, KLA offers the ideal place to build a strong and rewarding

engineering career.

Your work involves

- Designing and developing soware for advanced inspection solutions, translating

customer requirements into high-quality, maintainable soware used in state-of-the-art

manufacturing environments.

- Collaborating with multiple software teams to validate and integrate new inspection

flows, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and ready for deployment on KLA inspection

machines.

- Working together with senior engineers to evaluate and introduce modern soware

tools and development practices, continuously improving efficiency and the

development environment on Linux and Windows.

- Supporting field engineers and the Applications (APPS) team, contributing to the full

process flow of the vision system and gaining a strong end-to-end understanding of our

products.

- Occasional travel to customers, helping you build real-world insight into customer use

cases and the impact of your work in production environments.

Requirements

- A solid foundation in machine vision and software development, combined with curiosity and

motivation, enables you to grow into solving increasingly complex inspection challenges.

- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Initial

professional experience (or strong hands-on academic projects) is a plus, but above all

we value your passion for technology, drive to learn, and motivation to make a

difference.

- Good understanding of object-oriented programming, with practical experience in

C/C++ gained through coursework, projects, or early career roles. Exposure to Python

and deep-learning concepts is a plus.

- Experience working with Linux environments and open-source tools, at least at project

or academic level, with the ambition to deepen this knowledge in a professional setting.

- Strong interest in new technologies, including emerging hardware trends, modern

software frameworks, and computer-vision libraries, with the curiosity to experiment

and learn.

- Analytical mindset and strong communication skills, enabling effective collaboration

within international, multidisciplinary teams.

- Fluent in English, written and spoken.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years

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.