SWIFT Product Installation Engineer (m/f/d)

KLA; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

KLA is seeking a Product Install Engineer to secure proper tool installation at customer sites and oversee all activities to ensure a KLA tool functions accurately. The role covers site surveys, pre-installation, installation, troubleshooting, acceptance, training, and providing the product for further use.

Responsibilities include customer meetings to scope needs, action planning, validating deliverables, and performing system tests per procedures.

Qualifications

• Technical degree/diploma in engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Good level technical & analytical skills, ability to troubleshoot problems in software and electronic, optic, mechanical, electro-mechanical or electro-optical systems.
• Work experience in semiconductor industry is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-installation activities with customers to capture requirements.
• Install tool at customer site to meet KLA specifications and perform system testing.
• Troubleshoot complex system issues and manage escalations across regions.
• Provide install training to worldwide customer support engineering teams.
• Ensure customer satisfaction through regular updates and post-activity reviews.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Analytical skills

Electrical systems

Travel willingness

Education

Technical degree/diploma in engineering (mechanical/electrical/electronic)

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.

Group/Division The KLA Services team consists of Service Sales, Marketing, Spares Supply Chain Management, Field Operations, Engineering, Product Training, Digital Solutions and Analytics, and Technical Product Support.

Our services organization maximizes the value of our customers' KLA assets – with highly trained service and product support engineers providing installation services and 24/7 technical support and parts delivery through our extensive supply chain network.

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.

We are looking for a Product Install Engineer within the GSS organization securing proper tool installation at KLA customer sites & completion of all activities required to ensure a KLA tool functions accurately.

These activities include site surveys, pre-installation, installation, troubleshooting, acceptance, training, and the provision of the product for further use.

Key responsibilities include:

• Hold pre-installation meeting with the customer to scope customer unique requirements.
• Create plan of action to measure/confirm/satisfy unique customer needs.
• Validate deliverables with customer.
• Install tool at customer site to meet KLA specifications, through system testing according to procedures.
• This includes but is not limited to: light source and optical integration and precision alignment; wafer handler robot integration and teaching; camera and collection optics alignment and calibration; system level calibrations and verification; performance testing for sensitivity and repeatability; stability and cleanliness testing; applications verification and product wafer validation.
• Troubleshooting complex system issues in a timely manner, using abstract thought, data analysis, seven-step problem-solving methodology and other available tools.
• Management of escalations across customer and regions.
• After system testing, meet with the customer to facilitate verification of the tool performance, during which the validation of the tool is performed, to ensure it is properly functioning.
• Management of customer satisfaction through pre-activity meeting, routine update meeting, escalation meetings, post-activity meeting, and warranty meeting.
• Perform install/customer-focused applications testing to approve the operational quality of tool.
• Provide new product installation training to worldwide customer support engineering.

KLA offers a challenging and multinational environment at the forefront of high-technology and a market highly competitive package.

KLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Minimum Qualifications

Technical degree/diploma in engineering, mechanical, electrical, electronic engineering or equivalent work experience.

Good level technical & analytical skills, ability to understand and troubleshoot problems in software and electronic, optic, mechanical, electro-mechanical or electro-optical systems.

Work experience in semiconductor industry is a bonus.

Panel of competencies in optical, mechanic, electronic, lithography, metrology, and laser technology is preferable but not necessary.

Knowledge of computer theory, various operating systems and applicable operating system software knowledge, networking in a Windows, Unix or Novell environment.

Process engineering/ yield management knowledge is a bonus.

Good interpersonal/communication skills in understanding customer needs.

Ability to work under pressure and work to project deadlines.

Domestic and international travel, including to the United States, may be required as part of this role up to 70% time as part of normal duties.

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.

We do not accept resumes from headhunters, placement agencies, or other suppliers that have not signed a formal agreement with us.