Digital Forensics & eDiscovery Manager

KLA; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

401(k) including company matching

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

Student debt assistance

Tuition reimbursement program

Career development opportunities

Financial planning benefits

Wellness program and EAP

Paid time off

Paid company holidays

Family care and bonding leave

Job summary

KLA is seeking a senior leader for the Legal Compliance Organization to drive digital forensics, eDiscovery, and information governance on a global scale. You will mentor a diverse team, coordinate with cross‑functional partners, and ensure defensible handling of evidence across investigations and regulatory matters.

The role emphasizes collaboration across Legal, Compliance, HR, Cybersecurity, IT and IP, with a hands‑on leadership style and travel to support international operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related digital forensics or information governance field.
• 5–7 years of digital forensics, investigations, eDiscovery or incident response experience.
• Experience leading teams, managing contractors and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Prior multinational experience and ability to support multiple time zones are desirable.
• Strong communication, project management and stakeholder coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global digital forensics and eDiscovery team including internal analysts and vendors.
• Oversee defensible forensic analysis, data collection, review support, and disposition.
• Analyze evidence from endpoint DLP, M365, Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, SIEM, and mobile devices.
• Manage forensic imaging, remote endpoint collections, and chain‑of‑custody processes.
• Improve eDiscovery and ESI preservation, including legal holds and custodian identification.
• Develop defensible approaches for AI‑related evidence with proper validation and controls.
• Partner with Cybersecurity and IT on incident response and post‑incident preservation.
• Support special projects like information governance, data mapping, and dashboards.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Team leadership

Multinational experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Digital Forensics

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering

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 Legal Compliance Organization (LCO) provides legal guidance to further KLA’s strategic objectives and protect and preserve the company's legal, ethical and financial integrity and reputation. Drawing on expertise in corporate law, commercial law, employment law, ethics and compliance, and intellectual property, the LCO offers strategic legal counsel that is informed by a clear understanding of the company’s business objectives and knowledge of the laws and regulations relevant to the business worldwide.

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. As a member of the Legal and Compliance Organization (“LCO”), you will lead KLA’s digital forensics, investigations support, ESI preservation, eDiscovery, information governance, and forensic advisory functions. You will serve as the primary escalation point and subject-matter lead for digital forensic investigations, legal holds, eDiscovery collections and review, insider risk support, mobile and remote collections, cloud and collaboration-platform evidence, AI-related evidence, and cross-functional matters involving Legal, Compliance, Human Resources, Cybersecurity, IT, Intellectual Property, and business stakeholders. The role requires a hands‑on leader who can mentor a global team, apply forensic judgment to new technologies, and translate complex data into accurate, defensible, timely, and business‑relevant findings.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global digital forensics and eDiscovery team, including internal analysts, contractors, external vendors, and regional support partners.
• Oversee defensible forensic analysis, evidence preservation, data collection, review support, reporting, and evidence interpretation for investigations, legal matters, business functions, and global evidence management activities.
• Analyze evidence from endpoint DLP, Microsoft 365 Purview, Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, SIEM/security logs, Intune/MDM, mobile devices, network/cloud artifacts, OSINT sources, and AI prompts, outputs, and usage logs where available.
• Manage forensic imaging, remote endpoint collections, targeted mobile collections, evidence intake, release, disposition, and chain‑of‑custody processes in accordance with applicable law, policy, and legal hold obligations.
• Improve eDiscovery and ESI preservation processes, including legal holds, custodian identification, data collection, review set preparation, reconciliation, release workflows, and defensible retention or disposition decisions.
• Develop defensible approaches for AI‑related evidence, including prompts, inputs, outputs, usage logs, model‑assisted summaries, and AI‑generated or AI‑modified content, with appropriate human validation and privilege, privacy, security, and records‑management controls.
• Partner with Cybersecurity and IT on incident response, insider risk, monitoring, logging, forensic readiness, threat‑related investigations, and post‑incident evidence preservation.
• Support LCO special projects, including information governance, data mapping, records and hard‑drive disposition, communication monitoring governance, fraud and impersonation takedowns, dawn raid readiness, policy initiatives, training, dashboards, and workflow automation.

Desired Experience

Drafting forensic reports, declarations, certifications, affidavits, witness statements, or similar materials and explaining findings in litigation, regulatory, employment, law enforcement, or similar proceedings.

Managing external forensic, eDiscovery, OSINT, incident response, and international investigation vendors.

Relevant certifications or training in digital forensics, incident response, eDiscovery, cybersecurity, OSINT, cloud forensics, mobile forensics, or AI governance are desirable.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree preferred in Digital Forensics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. Minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience in digital forensics, investigations, eDiscovery, incident response, information governance, or supporting investigators as an analyst, examiner, program lead, or equivalent role.

• Demonstrated ability to lead a high‑performing team, manage contractors and vendors, and collaborate across departments, regions, time zones, and senior stakeholder groups.
• Ability to manage multiple investigations, legal holds, data requests, eDiscovery matters, incident response support activities, and special projects concurrently.
• Experience operating in a legal or compliance environment where privilege, confidentiality, proportionality, defensibility, and coordination with counsel are critical.
• Previous multinational company experience and ability to support multiple global time zones and international travel are highly desirable.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder coordination, project management, and team leadership skills.
• Ability to lift, move, open, disassemble, and assemble up to 50 pounds of computers, laptops, servers, and other computing devices.

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.

Primary Location: USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA

Total Rewards Base Pay Range: $174,300.00 - $255,633.00 Annually

KLA’s total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to:

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life
• other voluntary benefits
• 401(K) including company matching
• employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
• student debt assistance
• tuition reimbursement program
• development and career growth opportunities and programs
• financial planning benefits
• wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP)
• paid time off
• paid company holidays
• family care and bonding leave

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

KLA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us at [e-mail] or at [phone] to request accommodation.