Senior Optical Engineer – Precision Imaging & Metrology

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

ESP P (Employee Stock Purchase Program

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness benefits

Job summary

KLA, a leader in semiconductor inspection and metrology, seeks a Senior Optical Engineer to design, build, and qualify optical subsystems for inspection tools. You will lead design of a custom metrology system, work closely with systems engineering, and collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure performance criteria are met.

Responsibilities include tolerancing analysis, design reviews, vendor interactions, and test procedure development to guarantee high precision and reliability in

Qualifications

• Optical design in imaging and illumination systems delivering in-spec performance, cost and manufacturability on time.
• Statistical optical component and alignment tolerancing.
• Able to create specs for precision opto-mechanical assemblies.
• Proficiency in optical modeling software such as Code V or Zemax or LightTools.
• Non-sequential ray tracing using LightTools to model high precision optics surface scattering, conduct stray light analysis.
• Optical module and system build, alignment and debugging.
• Test stand design and build: concept, error budget, realization.

Responsibilities

• Investigate different design options and finding the best option through evaluating tolerances, manufacturability, light budgets and other trade-offs.
• Translate system or subsystem requirements into optical design and manufacturing requirements.
• Perform thorough tolerancing analysis to have a complete system design with full consideration of alignment process and metrology, system calibrations and opto-mech design limitations by working with other groups (systems, ME).
• Design and implement optical alignment and metrology process, test/tooling fixtures to achieve targeted optical performance.
• Follows complete design process, including design reviews, part procurement from vendors, testing, integration, and release.
• Investigate issues from customers or manufacturing and provide option design solution or work-around.
• Propose optical design improvements to enhance a tool performance such as SNR or throughput or manufacturability.
• Debug and solving of any optical problems that arise with the system.

Skills

Optical design

Code V

Zemax

LightTools

Matlab

Python

Tolerance analysis

Tools

LightTools

Job description

KLA, a leader in semiconductor inspection and metrology, seeks a Senior Optical Engineer to design, build, and qualify optical subsystems for inspection tools. You will lead design of a custom metrology system, work closely with systems engineering, and collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure performance criteria are met.

Responsibilities include tolerancing analysis, design reviews, vendor interactions, and test procedure development to guarantee high precision and reliability in