Product Development Engineer

KLATencor Corporation; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KLA is seeking a Product Development Engineer to support electron beam based metrology instruments in Ann Arbor. You will work in a cross-functional team to develop the next generation of metrology tools, aligning with engineering, service, and manufacturing across global sites.

The role emphasizes systems engineering, design improvements, testing, and documentation, with opportunities to travel for customer support and training worldwide.

Qualifications

• Understanding of precision instruments and control systems.
• Solid track record of problem solving.
• Experience with high vacuum systems and electron beam based instruments (SEM).
• Excellent oral and written communication, organizational and analytical skills.
• Travel for training and support of customers worldwide is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed requirement specifications from performance requirements using systems engineering.
• Develop and implement design improvements to current and next-generation products.
• Apply systems engineering to optimize instrument performance.
• Test and validate system design improvements.
• Draft documentation for assembly and training procedures.
• Lead troubleshooting of field customer concerns remotely or on-site.
• Interface with service, manufacturing and marketing to optimize performance.
• Write high-level technical reports and assessments.
• Design and drive multi-disciplinary experiments with detailed test plans.
• Coordinate with outside vendors to deliver sub-systems.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Education

Doctorate (Academic) Degree

Master’s Level Degree

Bachelor’s Level Degree

Tools

Electron beam instruments (SEM)

High vacuum systems

Systems 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/DivisionThe 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. KLA’s Central Engineering organization is made up of nine Centers of Excellence (CoEs) spanning disciplines like automation, motion control, sensors, platform design, and packaging. Each CoE contributes not only technical deliverables but also deep expertise, best practices, and advanced tools that elevate both what we build-and how we build it.

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.

Job Description/Responsibilities

KLA is looking for a Product Development Engineer to support electron beam based metrology instruments developed in our engineering group in Ann Arbor. The engineer will work within a cross-functional team developing the next generation of KLA metrology tools!

• Develop detailed requirement specifications from performance requirements using systems engineering methodology.
• Work with a team to develop and implement innovative design improvements to currently released products as well as development of novel next generation products.
• Apply systems engineering principles to optimize critical systems-level instrument performance.
• Test and validate systems design improvements.
• Draft documentation for assembly and training procedures.
• Drive troubleshooting of field customer concerns of sophisticated system performance problems, by providing written plans of action remotely or provide active technical leadership on-site at customer sites worldwide.
• Interface closely with service, manufacturing and marketing teams to define and optimize system performance and resolve performance issues.
• Write high-level technical reports to communicate issues, analysis, technical assessments, system status, best-known-methods, and engineering recommendations.
• Design and drive multi-disciplinary experiments, write detailed test plans for systems testing.
• Coordinate with outside vendors to develop and deliver sub-system products.

Qualifications/Education Desired

Have a solid understanding of precision instruments and control systems. Must have solid track record of problem solving. Experience with high vacuum systems. Experience with electron beam based instruments such as scanning electron microscopes. Have excellent oral and written communication, organizational and analytical skills. Previous experience with process control instrument systems for semiconductor industry is preferred. Travel for training and for support of customers worldwide is required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience;
• Master’s Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years;
• Bachelor’s Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools,