Assistant 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.

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.

Lead and evolve global electrical engineering standards, specifications, and design guidelines across a diverse facilities portfolio.

Review electrical designs for capital projects, infrastructure upgrades, and critical facility improvements to support consistency, quality, and compliance.

Guide technical strategy for power distribution, UPS, generators, transfer systems, and other critical power infrastructure.

Partner with cross-functional teams to improve resiliency, operational readiness, and long-term facility performance.

Support renewable energy and electrification initiatives, including solar, battery storage, EV charging, and utility coordination where relevant.

Translate technical requirements into clear standards, design guidance, and executive-ready summaries.

Preferred Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• Support customer evaluations by performing on-tool data acquisition, spectrum collection, and recipe setup/development.
• Collect and analyze spectra, logs, images, and raw tool data to support Proof of Application (POA) planning and execution.
• Validate and qualify tool performance to ensure compliance with customer requirements and application standards.
• Review, optimize, and troubleshoot process recipes; summarize data and findings to identify root causes and resolve tool issues.
• Prepare technical reports, presentations, and engagement proposals based on analysis results and customer needs.
• Collaborate with customers, field teams, and engineering groups to drive successful application outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data interpretation skills.
• Good English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; VBA/Macro experience is a plus.
• Willingness to work in a semiconductor cleanroom environment.
• Ability to support overnight shifts and occasional customer-site activities as required.

Preferred

• Experience with semiconductor metrology, inspection, process equipment, or data analysis.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and technical troubleshooting methodologies

Minimum Qualifications

Requires a minimum of 1 - 2 years of related experience

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.