Mechatronics Systems Engineer

KLA-Belgium; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

401(k) with company match

ESPP

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Holidays

Wellness program

Job summary

KLA in Milpitas, CA is seeking a Mechatronics systems design engineer to advance metrology hardware. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to collect data, calibrate systems, and script analyses in Python or Matlab.

Responsibilities include defining test plans, performing hardware‑in‑the‑loop experiments, and validating designs with CFD/flow analyses, with travel <10% to client sites.

Qualifications

• Doctorate or Master with relevant work experience.
• Strong background in mechatronics and metrology systems.
• Experience translating requirements into test plans and hardware designs.

Responsibilities

• Develop metrology hardware with multidisciplinary team.
• Collect/analyze data, calibrate hardware, and script in Python/Matlab.
• Plan integration, testing, and troubleshooting across systems.

Skills

Python

Matlab

Data analysis

Calibration

CFD analysis

Optimization

Image processing

Hardware‑in‑the‑loop

Requirements definition

Test planning

Education

Doctorate (Academic) Degree

Master's Degree

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

CFD software

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 Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards for technologies like AI, data centers, automotive and electronic devices. Our inspection, metrology, and analytics systems detect and monitor defects across logic and memory chips, specialty semiconductors, wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, process equipment and materials. We also develop technologies for specialty processes, IC substrates, and PCB manufacturing, including etch and deposition, component inspection, and imaging and analytics.

The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) division delivers industry-leading metrology solutions essential to advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Its portfolio includes systems for measuring film thickness, critical dimensions, composition, and resistivity—key to developing and scaling next-gen IC processes. FaST partners closely with customers from early R&D through high-volume production, ensuring performance and process alignment.

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. Mechatronics systems design engineers are part of a multidisciplinary team that develops metrology equipment used in the semiconductor industry to enable our customers to solve very challenging requirements. Excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal. Work independently on data collection, analysis, calibration, and writing scripts using Python or Matlab. Perform hands‑on work with hardware and gather the necessary data in the lab or the cleanroom. Define plans for system integration, testing, and troubleshooting. Strong experience in requirements definition, precision motion system design, motor and air‑bearing development, CFD‑based thermal/flow analysis, and experimental validation of complex mechatronic systems. Knowledge of numerical optimization and image processing is a plus. Strong experience with experimental design and hardware‑in‑the‑loop experimentation to retire design risks. Ability to translate customer and system requirements into test plans, engineering models, and robust hardware designs. Some travel to customer sites < 10%.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 1+ years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 4 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 6 years.

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.

Total Rewards Base Pay Range: $117,800.00 - $172,800.00 Annually

Primary Location: USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA

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
• and 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 and paid company holidays
• and family care and bonding leave

Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed.

Use of AI Statement

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Equal Opportunity Statement

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