System Design 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 LS-SWIFT division delivers high-throughput patterned wafer inspection systems that support advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to provide industry-leading defect detection with optimal cost of ownership across a wide range of applications. LS systems enable precise, cost-effective inspection for cutting-edge process nodes, while SWIFT systems offer comprehensive macro inspection of all wafer surfaces—capabilities that are especially critical for advanced packaging, as well as logic, memory, and automotive applications.

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise. The LS-SWIFT division engineering is looking for highly motivated individual to join a growing team of home team system engineers to develop and sustain state-of-the-art wafer inspection equipment. Home team engineers independently respond to miscellaneous challenges and provide customer focused solutions Responsibilities: Lead and drive resolution of complex customer escalations by coordinating cross-functional division teams including R&D, Applications, Software, Hardware, and Service, ensuring root cause is identified and corrective actions are implemented effectively Provide sustained engineering support for field systems to enable successful customer adoption, long‑term product sustainability, and high customer satisfaction Define, document, and review system specifications and technical requirements, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps Contribute to system design and development activities, including architecture definition, performance characterization, and validation of advanced metrology systems Act as a system‑level technical owner for customer support by understanding customer requirements, translating them into actionable technical expectations, and ensuring solutions meet performance, quality, and reliability objectives Drive technical excellence for alpha, beta and mature product engagements Work closely with larger system engineering group to work on roadmap projects Qualifications: Strong understanding of Systems Engineering principles with experience developing, deploying, and supporting complex systems in the semiconductor industry Demonstrated technical depth in one or more areas: optical systems, opto‑mechanics, mechatronics, electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering Solid foundation in physics, mathematics, and computational methods, with strong analytical and system‑level problem‑solving skills Experience with data processing, analytics, and statistical analysis; proficiency in Python and MATLAB is a plus Ability to operate effectively in fast‑paced environments, take ownership of technically ambiguous problems, and lead or support customer escalations Minimum Qualifications Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years;