Applications Development Engineer - SurfScan

KLA-Belgium; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KLA Singapore seeks an experienced Applications Engineer to provide applications development support for SurfScan SPx products. You will develop test cases, analyze defects, and demonstrate products to customers, ensuring solutions meet their needs with detailed specifications.

Ideal candidates have strong technical skills, excellent communication, and knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing, with travel as required.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Material Science, or related fields.
• ~70% international/ domestic travel may be required.
• Strong technical skills to understand tool capabilities and provide root cause analysis and potential solutions for customers.
• Excellent oral and written communication, organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Working knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Develop test cases; characterize customers defects, new products and/or features.
• Provide technical support in the development and implementation of customer applications dealing with SurfScan products and features.
• Provide specific product demonstrations on all aspects of highly complex products to customers and assess potential applications to meet customer needs; prepare detailed product specifications.
• Characterize tool/algorithm performance and provide clear feedback to the Engineering teams for product improvement, especially during Alpha/Beta tests.

Skills

Test case development

Root cause analysis

Customer support

Technical communication

Semiconductor manufacturing knowledge

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering, Physics, or Materials Science

Tools

SurfScan SPx

Job description

Company Overview

Company Overview KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group/Division

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The Surfscan group includes a team of engineers, technology development, apps engineers and product marketing focused on technology that enables wafer, IC and equipment manufacturers to develop, qualify and monitor their process tools. Defects and process non-uniformities detected on Surfscan equipment allow for early identification of yield excursions. The flagship Surfscan products include the SPx platforms for wafer surface quality and wafer defect inspection tools and systems for inspection of polished wafers, epi wafers and engineered substrates during the wafer fabrication process.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Responsibilities: Following standard procedures, provide applications development support to Surfscan SPx products:

• Develop test cases; characterize customers defects, new products and/or features.
• Provide technical support in the development and implementation of customer applications dealing with SurfScan products and features.
• Provide specific product demonstrations on all aspects of highly complex products to customers and assess potential applications to meet customer needs; prepare detailed product specifications.
• The candidate will also be required to work towards characterization of the tool/algorithm performance and for providing clear feedback to the Engineering teams for product improvement, especially during Alpha/Beta tests.

Minimum Qualifications

• Candidate must have Master’s or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Material Science, or related fields.
• ~70% international/ domestic travel may be required.
• Strong technical skills are required to understand the functionality and capabilities of these tools and for providing root cause analysis and potential solutions for customers.
• Possesses excellent oral and written communication, organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently.
• The ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing.

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