Graduate Product Management Engineer

KLA; Newport; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Cash health plan

Cycle to work scheme

Global bonus plan

Share scheme

Rewards scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

KLA Graduate Product Marketing Engineer role in the UK offers a structured development path within a fast-growing global semiconductor company. It starts in September 2027, with onboarding, technical classroom training, soft-skills training, and rotations across marketing, operations and process teams.

You will join a graduate development programme with mentoring from your SPTS guide, followed by team integration and on-the-job training to build core capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (2:1) in engineering-related field.
• Master’s degree or semiconductor experience desirable but not required.
• Proficiency in MS Office; PowerPoint & Excel; Co-Pilot helpful.

Responsibilities

• Define product roadmaps and long-term forecasting.
• Generate and present marketing collateral.
• Coordinate responses to customer specification documents.
• Own boilerplate specification documentation for field reference.
• Generate throughput and CoO data using standard models.
• Create/update System Configuration Documents for manufacturing builds.
• Coordinate sample demonstrations with engineering and account teams.
• Host customer visits for live demonstrations or show & tell.
• Develop and maintain contacts with customers and suppliers.
• Write and submit abstracts and papers to conferences/trade shows.

Skills

Learning mindset

Data analysis

Creative problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree (2:1) in Engineering/Physics/Chemistry/Materials

Master’s degree in semiconductor field desirable

Tools

MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel)

Co-Pilot

Job description

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.

Graduate Product Marketing Engineer

This role represents an excellent opportunity for someone looking to establish a career in a fast-growing, award-winning, global semiconductor company with a clearly defined career development path.

This role is part of our 2027 Graduate programme and will start in September 2027.

Following the Company's extensive onboarding and introduction program, you will join our Graduate Development programme that includes: Technical Classroom training, Soft-skills training, Team building, Corporate responsibility activities and finally placement across all our marketing, operations and process teams.

It is not required for you to already have the skills and knowledge to perform the role, full on the job training will be provided through our graduate develop scheme. You will then be welcomed into your Team and continue your development supported by your SPTS mentor!

Product Marketing Introduction

The Product Marketing team within SPTS are involved in various aspects of the marketing function including supporting systems sales efforts and setting product roadmaps. Starting with qualifying the sales opportunity, answering questions from the sales team/customer, responding to customer specifications and visit customer sites to progress sales prospects.

In the factory, alongside engineering, product marketing arrange and manage customer demos, and when circumstances allow, host live demos with customers on site. Through interaction with various resources including the customer base, suppliers and analysts the product marketing team develop an understanding of our markets and position within those markets aiming to contribute to the overall product development and planning processes.

For product development activities, the team create and prioritise roadmap targets. This involves setting the scene for the division to follow using the KLA Product Life Cycle (PLC) process.

Product Marketing’s responsibilities don’t stop after the sales process has been completed. The team assist the account teams providing updates on product development, market trends and acting as the customer representative in any factory-based work.

There may also be opportunities to work with Corporate Marketing on the creation of promotional materials and attendance (virtual or in person) at trade shows/technical conferences.

This position may also involve occasional international travel.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Product roadmap definition
• Long-term forecasting
• Generation and presentation of marketing collateral
• Coordination and/or response to customer specification documents
• Ownership of boiler plate specification documentation for field reference.
• Generating Throughput and Cost-of-Ownership (CoO) data using industry-standard models
• Generating and updating System Configuration Documents (SCD) to define manufacturing builds
• Sample demonstration coordination with engineering and account teams
• Hosting customer visits for live demonstrations or show & tell
• Developing and maintaining contacts with customers and suppliers
• Writing and submitting abstracts and papers to relevant conferences and trade shows

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Whilst no experience is necessary, in your application and through assessment you’ll show us you have:

• Has a passion for learning and development, continuously seeking for new knowledge and learning opportunities.
• Can think logically to provide customer solutions with a good attention to detail and foresight and ability to collect, filter and analyse data to build solutions for complex technological problems
• Has the ability to think creatively of novel but practical solutions to customer problems
• Is able to demonstrate strong communication skills – You’ll enjoy establishing and maintaining good working relationships with both customers and colleagues.

Your qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree (2:1) in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or Material Science.
• Applicants with a Master’s Degree or prior experience of studies within the semiconductor industry would be desirable but certainly not a must.
• A good acquaintance with SW tools (MS Office especially PowerPoint, Excel and Co-Pilot) would be advantageous.

What we will offer you?

• Annual leave starting at 25 days (plus bank holidays)
• contributory pension scheme
• cash health plan
• cycle to work scheme
• global bonus plan
• share scheme
• rewards scheme
• life assurance

Minimum Qualifications

BSc / BEng / BA

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.