Electrical Design Engineer: Precision Sensing & Embedded Electronics

KLA-Belgium; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

KLA is seeking an Electrical Hardware Engineer III in Milpitas to design and develop instrumented wafer products, integrating precision sensors, embedded electronics, and power management in highly constrained environments.

You will own subsystem designs, drive design reviews, and collaborate with firmware, systems, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to bring products from concept to production.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of experience designing and developing electronic hardware products.
• Experience with mixed-signal circuit design including analog and digital electronics.
• Experience developing schematics and supporting PCB design and integration.
• Hands-on laboratory experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, and other test equipment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop mixed-signal electrical subsystems for advanced instrumented wafer products.
• Define electrical architectures and evaluate design tradeoffs related to performance, power consumption, reliability, manufacturability, and cost.
• Develop low-power analog and digital circuitry for sensing, measurement, and embedded applications.
• Create schematics and drive PCB/substrate development through design reviews and release.
• Develop system-level performance requirements, error budgets, and measurement specifications.
• Define calibration strategies and support measurement traceability and accuracy requirements.
• Develop and execute validation plans, electrical characterization activities, and design verification testing.
• Lead technical investigations, troubleshoot complex hardware issues, and drive root-cause analysis.

Skills

Mixed-signal design

Schematic capture

PCB design

Root-cause analysis

Debugging

Power management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium, OrCAD, Cadence, PADS (PCB design tools)

LTspice

ADS

HyperLynx

MATLAB

Python

Job description

KLA is seeking an Electrical Hardware Engineer III in Milpitas to design and develop instrumented wafer products, integrating precision sensors, embedded electronics, and power management in highly constrained environments.

You will own subsystem designs, drive design reviews, and collaborate with firmware, systems, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to bring products from concept to production.