Senior Research Scientist - (Image Sensor | CCD / CMOS | Pixel | Camera) (#107795)

Job Title: Senior Research Scientist
Location: Milpitas, CA
Position: Full time

This Research Scientist will be responsible for developing novel, low-noise, high-speed UV image sensors and the associated analog front end electronics. These sensors will be used in multiple KLA-Tencor wafer inspection systems to detect patterning defects and nanometer-sized particles on semiconductor wafers. In order to allow our customers to meet the challenges of Moore’s law, KLA-Tencor needs to constantly develop new sensors with higher speed and improved sensitivity.

Responsibilities include:

Proposing and developing new sensor designs

Simulating image sensor performance

Characterizing test devices and sensors
Designing and running experiments and analyzing and evaluating the data

Developing test boards and low noise analog circuits
Working with suppliers to improve the design and implement in production
Working with KLA-Tencor product divisions to incorporate into their inspection systems

  Preferred Qualifications  

Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Physics or equivalent field with 3 years
Knowledge of CCD sensors.
Familiarity with FPGAs and/or Verilog.
Experience designing for semiconductor or other capital equipment.

Kindly send your resumes to abhinav.rajkumar@kla-tencor.com

FPA Manager (FP&A, Financial, Planning and Analysis) (#108541)

Position: FPA Manager
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time

Job Description:
The Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) organization provides leadership and support to executives and business leaders throughout the company. Our role is to implement and manage the processes that support and enable the company's business decisions, such as forecasting, strategic planning, board of director presentations, and management reporting.

Responsibilities:
We are looking for a talented financial professional to join our Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis team as a manager.  This person will work closely with senior management and employees across the company as a key influencer and partner in developing business, economic and financial decision frameworks, leading planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes, as well as conducting analysis and reporting that drives and enhances the successful execution and communication of progress against K-T's short-term and long-term plans.  We apply a high level of analytical rigor to the work that we do on a regular basis and use that analysis to help drive improvements throughout the organization.

Preferred Qualifications:
◦Candidate should possess a demonstrated track record of strong analytical skills with deep technical expertise
in financial modeling
◦Excellent communication skills, particularly the ability to distill large amounts of data into coherent summary
written and oral presentations that clearly convey the key message including priority and risk tailored to
audiences from Board of Directors to entire company.
◦Ability to work both independently and as a member of a cross-functional team.
◦Demonstrated ability to establish and quickly build effective relationships throughout an organization, including
at remote locations.
◦Strong leadership and influencing skills with a sense of urgency and results orientation a must.
◦Ability to work, design and execute both strategically, operationally and proactively while being pragmatic.
◦Previous experience managing financial analysts preferred.

Minimum Qualifications:
◦Minimum 10 years experience in Finance, or equivalent.
◦Bachelor degree required, MBA strongly preferred.
◦Experience with SAP is a plus.

Kindly send your resumes to Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com

SOX Senior Program Manager (SOX, Audit, Compliance, CPA) (#108507)

Position: SOX Sr. Program Manager
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time

Job Description:
This role is in Corporate Finance, specifically the SOX / Internal Audit group which is responsible for SOX
compliance, internal audit, and enterprise risk management for the company.

Responsibilities:
SOX Sr. Program Manager will work closely with Internal Audit, External Audit, and SOX control owners throughout the company. This individual will report to the Director, Risk Management and Compliance and be responsible for success completion of SOX 404 requirements annually.  Individual will drive day-to-day tactical details of 404 compliance work from start to finish including:  scoping of project, assisting control owners with design and documentation of internal controls over financial reporting,  facilitating / coordinating management and external audit testing, tracking and reporting on status of testing and remediation efforts, analyzing and categorizing deficiencies, assisting with resolution of issues. Individual will not have any direct reports but will work closely with managers and directors for each of the major functional area in 404 scope. Also will also be responsible for coordinating the quarterly 302 sub-certification process with all business units and regions in the company.

Preferred Qualifications:
Prior Big 4 audit experience a plus.  CIA, CISA or CPA highly desirable.
Working knowledge of AS5, US GAAP, COSO framework, SSAE 16 guidelines, SAP ERP FI/CO modules.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's level degree in accounting or related finance field with at least 5 years of experience or Master's degree with at least 3 years of experience. Or, equivalent. Must have extensive experience running a SOX compliance program for a global, manufacturing company.  Proven success record for completing all requirements for SOX 404 on time and on budget.  Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills with a variety of individuals at different levels throughout the company.  Ability to travel to non-US locations for up to 2 weeks duration necessary.  Excellent spoken and written communications skills.

Kindly send your resumes to Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com

Electrical Systems Manufacture Engineer (Electrical systems, RF, Digital, Analogue, PCB Manufacture or Design)

Position: Electrical Systems Manufacture Engineer
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time

Job Description:
KLA-Tencor's SensArray Sensor Wafers provides a unique way of monitoring equipment that effects process environment of production wafers which is not available from conventional process. Measurements such as temperature and RF voltage are used by both chipmakers and process monitoring equipment manufacturers to visualize, diagnose, and control their processes and process tools.

Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities:
Develop, implement, maintain methods and operation sequence process in the manufacture or fabrication of parts, components, sub‑assemblies, and final assemblies.  Interface with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products.  Estimate manufacturing cost, determine time standards and makes recommendation for tooling and process requirements of new or existing product lines. Maintain records and reporting systems for coordination of manufacturing operations.

KNOWLEDGE: Having wide-ranging experience, use professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.

JOB COMPLEXITY: Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Internal and external contacts often pertain to company plans and objectives.

SUPERVISION: Determine methods and procedures on new assignments, and may provide guidance to other personnel.

The successful candidate will have excellent electrical system troubleshooting and diagnostic skills.  As such, the candidate must be able to work in a wide range of aspects of electrical systems, i.e. RF, digital, analogue, power, packaging/thermal, and F/W. As the primary interface between the design engineering team and manufacturing, the candidate must be the champion and have a well versed knowledge in design for manufacturability and design for test. In addition, the candidate will be a primary technical interface with suppliers.

Preferred Qualifications:
•Excellent communication skills.
•Experienced with Cadence schematic and layout tools.
• Work experience in PCB manufacture or design.

Minimum Qualifications:
Doctorate (Academic) with at least 2 years of experience.
OR
Master's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.
OR
Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 8 years of experience.

Kindly send your resumes to sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com

Senior Staff Electrical Design Engineer (Analog | High-Speed | RF - Radio Frequency | low noise) (#108445)

Job Title: Senior Staff Electrical Design Engineer
Location: Milpitas, CA.

Duration:  Full time

Job Description:

Company Overview 

KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC), a leading provider of process control and yield management solutions, partners with customers around the world to develop state-of-the-art storage, compound semiconductor, photovoltaic, and other related nanoelectronics industries.  With a portfolio of industry-standard products and a team of world-class engineers and scientists, the company has created superior solutions for its customers for over 35 years.  Headquartered in Milpitas, California, KLA-Tencor has dedicated customer operations and service centers around the world.  Additional information may be found at www.kla-tencor.com.

Business Unit 

The Wafer Inspection Division (WIN) of KLA-Tencor is the world leader in design and manufacturing of systems that are used for capturing yield-impacting defects through optical inspection of patterned wafers for semiconductor manufacturers to ramp and maintain yields for their products.

Responsibilities

The WIN division is seeking a Senior Staff Electrical Design Engineer to enhance engineering team. The successful engineer will work with multi discipline teams to deliver innovative and high performance electrical designs for cutting edge Wafer Inspection Machines.

The primary responsibilities are high speed/low noise (over 100MHz BW) linear and non-linear analog hardware design, signal conditioning design and precision low noise power supply design. Responsibilities also include defining subsystem specification, requirements, technical analysis/modeling, simulation, complete design from schematic, layout and verification to characterization, procurement of prototype, prototype testing, design validations and ensuring manufacturability.

Responsible for designing high speed RF (Radio Frequency)  which includes high speed, low noise analog, high speed digital interface and digital synthesizer design. The candidate will work closely with FPGA and firmware design team to perform circuit debugging and PCB test.

Qualifications 
•BSEE with 10+ years, or MSEE with 6+ years or PhD EE with 5+ years low noise and high speed analog design experience.

•Must have extensive experience in designing low noise high speed analog/mixed signal PCBs (schematic and layout), modeling and functional simulation.

•Must have very strong skills with design and simulation tools (such as OrCad, Spice, Hyperlynx and etc.).

•Must have strong diagnostic skills and capability of resolving complex, system level issues.

•Must have the ability to multitask, work independently and good team player.

•Strong written and verbal communication skills and have a track record of well documented designs.

•Experience with PMT application is a plus.

Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 7 years of relevant experience. OR

Master's Level Degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience. OR

Doctorate (Academic) with at least 5 years of relevant experience.

Please send your resumes to abhinav.rajkumar@kla-tencor.com

Software QA Engineer (Austin, TX)(C#, C++, .Net, QA, Testing) (#108521)

Position: Software QA Engineer
Location: Austin, TX
Duration: Full time

Job Description:
We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer with experience in testing software in Windows environments. The software quality engineer will be a member of our data analysis software engineering team working on challenging problems in the semiconductor production domain. The product environment includes mathematical data analysis algorithms, graphical data representation and user interfaces, database storage and management, real-time data processing and programming interfaces. Key attributes of the successful candidate are being a self-starter, problem solver, collaborative team player, and high productivity contributor

Responsibilities
•Write test plans and test cases for data analysis software product, including windows applications, database servers and APIs
•Verify compliance with software requirements and general product usability
•Automated and manual test execution using standard SQA practices
•Manage result verification activities by special contributors, such as scientists or other experts
•Verification of fixed defects
•Mentor other SQA engineers.

Preferred Qualifications:
•BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other technical field
•2+ years of professional experience in SQA testing
•Intimate understanding of software quality assurance processes, including writing of test plans and use of defect tracking systems
•Experience with Windows operating systems, experience with Linux a plus
•Strong skills in scripting languages, such as Visual Basic or Perl.
•Experience with automated test tools
•Experience with Microsoft .Net platform, Visual Studio development tools and C# or C++ programming
languages preferred
•Knowledge of software development lifecycle and build/release of commercial software.
•Experience in semiconductor industry a plus.

Minimum Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other technical field with 2+ years of professional experience
in SQA testing.

Kindly send your resumes to Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com

Application Development Engineer (MS | PhD | Physics | Material Science | NPI | IC processing/Semiconductor ) (#107723)

Job Title: Application Development Engineer

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description:

Responsible for supporting KLA-Tencor's reticle inspection products. Includes projects related to new product introduction: characterization, alpha testing, beta testing and pilot tools in the ramp phase. In addition, application engineers will manage in-house customer demonstrations and head-to-head (H2H) activities at customer facilities. Applications is responsible for generating best known method documents and other training material and transferring product knowledge to K-T's worldwide Field Applications team. Lastly, applications will work with customers to publish papers at industry symposiums or in technical journals.

Work closely with many organizations including engineering, sales and marketing within K-T and with customer engineers outside K-T.

Worldwide travel (on average 30%) is required to support inspection products at customer fab.

Education and Experience:

Candidate must have MS or PHD in Engineering, Physics, Material Science or related fields.  Having a background in IC processing/Semiconductor equipment is a plus. Must have excellent communication, organizational, analytical, leadership, and interpersonal skill. Candidate must also be self-driven, yet a strong team player.

Basic Qualification:

Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 3 years of experience.

OR

Master's Level Degree with at least 2 years of experience.

OR

Doctorate (Academic)

Please send in your resumes to vinod.sanker@kla-tencor.com

Sr. Product Development Engineer (Optics | Laser | troubleshooting) (# 108535)

Position: Sr. Product Development Engineer

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Full time

Job Description:

Responsible for engineering activities on next generation of existing product. These activities will include the development and release of new options, features or cost reduction improvements that provide more value to our customers (external or internal). Integral to this role is an understanding of the customers use-case and successfully working in conjunction with other groups to define the requirements. Must have the ability to follow through and release / support these product enhancements effectively. Train service and manufacturing employees. Maybe required to travel to customer sites to efficiently and effectively resolve technical issues (Fly and Fix) during and after product release, as well as to support existing systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

PhD degree preferred.  Experience in the area of mechanical, optical, electrical or systems design, overseeing subsystem project, troubleshooting of systems issues, creating and executing test plans is highly desirable.

Basic Qualification:

Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.

OR

Master's Level Degree with at least 3 years of experience.

OR

Doctorate (Academic) with at least 0 years of experience.

Kindly send your resume to raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com

Technical Programs Director (# 108444)

Position: Technical Programs Director

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Full time

Job Description:

The Director of GSS Technical Programs is responsible for driving programs spanning all K-T products focused on advanced diagnostics and guided trouble-shooting. 

Specific responsibilities include:

- Lead cross-functional product life-cycle (PLC) team with representatives from each product support group, marketing, engineering, and IT, to develop roadmaps, define projects, and drive product development and release.

- Work with the new product introduction teams to ensure that diagnostic and trouble-shooting capabilities are built into all new K-T inspection and metrology tools, and are leveraged to accelerate learning on new tools.  Ensure that best-known methods are developed and used across all product lines.

- Work closely with Service Marketing to develop diagnostic and trouble-shooting solutions to help both our customers and our service engineers more efficiently service K-T inspection and metrology tools, while protecting core K-T intellectual property.

- Use data gathering and analysis tools to provide value-added capability, in terms of both service metrics (i.e. uptime, MTTR) as well as tool performance (e.g. capture rate or measurement precision) to our customers, and leverage to add to the company’s service revenue.

- Stay abreast of industry and academic trends in the area of intelligent maintenance systems and be able to lead developing of our 5-year architectural roadmap.

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated results driving product development or technical programs in semiconductor capital equipment or similar industry required. Familiarity with K-T’s PLC process or similar process for product development. Service experience on cutting edge, capital equipment products desired. Experience with turning large quantities of data into an action plan.

Basic Qualification:

Doctorate (Academic) with at least 5 years of experience.

OR

Master's Level Degree with at least 6 years of experience.

OR

Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 7 years of experience.

Kindly send your resume to raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com 

Field Applications Engineer (# 108419)

Position: Field Applications Engineer

Location: Malta, NY

Duration: Full time

 

Job Description:

The selected Field Applications Engineers primary purpose is to provide Bright Field Inspection product applications support to our customer in Malta, NY, including product adoption, penetration, and market share activities centered on Best Known Methods (BKMs) development, identifying and implementing new applications and use cases, and maintaining competitive advantage. In addition, he/she will manage customer demos, competitive head to head activities at customer facilities, and long term adoption support. It will be his/her responsibility to generate BKMs and training material, transfer product knowledge and lessons learned to KLA-Tencor's WW Field Application Team.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters or PhD, in Engineering, Physics, Material Science or related fields.

Strong troubleshooting skills, combined with a methodical approach.

Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, interpersonal, and leadership skills.

Well organized, self-driven, strong follow-up abilities, demonstrated ability to thrive in a dynamic technical environment.

Training in Semiconductor or related fields.

Background in IC processing/Semiconductor equipment is a plus.

 

Basic Qualification:

Masters or PhD, in Engineering, Physics, Material Science or related fields with at least 2 years of experience or a minimum of 5 years of related work experience.

 

Kindly send your resume to raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com

Lead Senior Software Engineer (C/C++/C#/.Net/MFC, XML, Java, OOA/OOD/OOP) (#108372)

Position: Lead Senior Software Engineer
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time

Job Description:
Responsibilities include:
As SW Lead Engg need to lead SW programs which involves cross functional development. The position also
requires the ability to plan SW modules of 6-36 months in duration, work with team and to be technical and hands-on during the entire PLC.- Participate in all stages of software development including deployment/trouble shooting at customer sites.

- Must have good understanding of general SW principles and constructs

- Need to be able to work with hardware and systems/application groups to understand system requirements and map them to a software design.
- Interact with multi site team members (India & USA)
- Handle software sustaining activities
- Be able to communicate effectively, conduct technical presentations.
- Be able to conduct detailed analysis, consider the tradeoffs for the various solutions, and make decisions on which solution to implement and why.
Leverage on teams strength and abilities.
- Establish operational objectives and assignments, and delegates assignments to team.
- Regularly interacts with senior management or executive levels on matters concerning several functional areas,

divisions and/or customers.
- Lead and take responsibility for planning and development activities (e.g., driving software team to milestones, mitigating risks) for software product excellence in quality, reliability, user experience and functionality.

- Communicate and share information, learning, and methods with cross-functional team members to achieve organizational/program goals.

Preferred Qualifications:
S/W skills:
Knowledge of C/C++/C#/.Net/MFC, COM, ATL, XML, Java, OOA/OOD/OOP
Experience with CMM, UML, Rational Suite, Clear case.

Minimum Qualifications:

Doctorate (Academic) with at least 3 years of experience.

OR

Master's Level Degree with at least 7 years of experience.

OR
Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 10 years of experience in Computer Technology or SW Engg. Or, equivalent

Kindly send your resumes to Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com

Manager Business Development ( analysis | New markets | Research | Business opportunities) (#108446)

Job Title: Manager Business Development

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration:  Fulltime

Job Description:

Corporate Business Development.  Working at the corporate level to investigate and stimulate new growth business opportunities both inside and outside of the KT core businesses.

1.Work with a small team of executives in analyzing new markets and businesses where KLA can apply its core capabilities.

2.Research and understand product lines, applications, and competitive dynamics of current players in the new market.

3.Research new markets (for KLA) and query customers for their needs and how their needs are currently being met.

4.Develop presentations of analysis and educate other KT employees and executives.

5.Analyze technology and IP positions of market players.

6.Analyze financial performance of new market players and develop financial models for new business opportunities.

7.Help define products for organic or joint development projects based on application research.

Education and Experience:

1.Technical product development experience in a competitive environment with a clear understanding of financial and engineering implications of product de1velopment and strategy

2.Technical background in physics, chemistry, biology or electrical engineering with significant business exposure and experience.

3.Experience in Life Science Tools / Business development are desired.

4.Contract and Transaction experience valuable, but are secondary qualifications.

Basic Qualification:

1.Bachelor's Level Technical Degree with at least 5 years of experience in a business environment. Or, equivalent. Life Science and Analytical instruments business areas desired.

2.Masters or PhD technical degree or Business Administration degree are desired.

Please send in your resumes to vinod.sanker@kla-tencor.com

Senior Software Engineer (Release engineer, Software Configuration management(SCM), C#, Java script)(#107915)

Position: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time

Job Description:
The candidate will be responsible for the following
1) Work with Software Project Manager to migrate the division's source code from Rational Clear Case to Rational Team Concert
2) Assist project teams with local and remote source code control (branching, merging, building, automated unit/integration test)
3) Setup and Administer build systems
4) Write and maintain automated build and unit/integration test scripts.
5) Work with SQC to integrate automated build and unit/integration test cycles with the system level test cycles. Help promote best known methods for continuous build and test cycles.

Preferred Qualifications:
BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related engineering field.
7 years experience as a Software Release Engineer with
1) Expert level knowledge of Clear Case administration.
2) Expert level knowledge of  Rational Team Concert  administration.
3) Expert level knowledge in setting up and maintaining target build systems for continuous integration and test for local and remote software development teams.
4) Good understanding of various software development life cycle models like Agile, Waterfall.

Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years experience.
OR
Master's Level Degree with at least 3 years experience.

Kindly send your resumes to Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com

Product Marketing Manager ( Product life cycle | Metrology | wafer fab ) (#108310)

Job Title: Product Marketing Manager
Location: Milpitas, CA
Position: Full time

Job Description:

This is a Strategic Product Marketing role in KLA-Tencor's film and scatterometry division, one of the core groups of KLA-Tencor's metrology business. The film and scatterometry division, conceives, develops manufactures and markets film and optical CD metrology equipment for the front end semiconductor manufacturing process counting all major semiconductor manufacturers amongst its key customers.

The successful candidate will be responsible for defining new products within the product lifecycle process including defining requirements, deciding the technology required, setting priorities for the development team, selecting and working with test partners and managing product launches. In particular this position relates to Strong leadership across differing functional groups and effective communication with executive management will be key elements to success in this role.

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of the semiconductor manufacturing process and the importance of metrology tools and techniques in improving process control and will likely have worked in a wafer fab environment. More recently the candidate will have direct product marketing experience, probably working for a semi equipment company or other high tech operation.

Preferred Qualifications:

Minimum of a Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline.

5-10 years experience in semiconductor industry, direct wafer fab experience is considered an advantage

Direct product marketing experience in a semiconductor or related industry is required.

MBA is considered an advantage but not essential to the position.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 3 years of experience.

OR

Master's Level Degree with at least 2 years of experience.

Kindly send your resume to sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com