Regional Development Applications Engineer

About the role

KLA, a provider of inspection tools, metrology systems and process solutions for semiconductor manufacturing, is hiring a Regional Development Applications Engineer in Shanghai. The role sits within Central Engineering, the largest engineering organization of the company, and works closely with engineering, sales and marketing teams inside KLA and with customer engineers outside KLA. It provides high-level applications support for complex overlay measurement systems.

Key responsibilities

• Manage in-house customer demonstrations and head-to-head (H2H) activities at customer sites, and conduct new tool demonstrations to showcase tool performance and develop use cases that drive tool sales.
• Design experiments to characterize tool and subcomponent performance, demonstrate product value in alpha and beta testing, and support pilot tool ramp-up at customer sites.
• Develop recipes to model complex optical applications and optimize tool performance.
• Provide escalation support to the onsite field service engineer and lead and coordinate remote and local troubleshooting.
• Characterize next-generation overlay measurement products, design test plans, collect and analyze data, and publish results and recommendations as applications notes and best-known methods.
• Form training materials and transfer new production knowledge and application capabilities to the worldwide applications support team.
• Work with the division's system and algorithm teams to develop software offline tools for data analysis and feature development.

Required profile

• Master's degree or PhD in physics or a related engineering field such as optics, materials science or microelectronics.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, and superb communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-driven and independent, yet a strong team player.
• Proficiency in English and effective collaboration with people from different cultures.
• Willingness to travel worldwide, approximately 70% of the time.

Required skills

• Matlab and Python experience is a plus.