Senior Internal Auditor (SOX/Operational auditing , Internal/General Audit Exp) (#108641)

Position: Senior Internal Auditor
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time

Job Description:
Responsibilities:
1) Maintaining all organizational and professional ethical standards. Works independently under general supervision with considerable latitude for initiative and independent judgment.
2) Supports the development of the annual risk assessment and provides input to the development of the Annual Audit Plan.
3) Conducting and documenting audits of key internal controls (SOX 404) and key operational processes.
4) Performing audit procedures, including:         
          + Designing audit program
          + Conducting interviews, reviewing documents, and preparing working papers
          + Reviewing and analyzing evidence and documenting processes and procedures
          + Identifying, developing, and documenting audit issues and recommendations.
5) Communicating or assist in communicating the results of audit projects via written reports and/or oral presentations to management.
6) Working with divisional and functional management to develop and implement practical solutions to address audit findings.
7) Pursuing professional development opportunities, including external and internal training and professional association memberships, and shares information gained with co-workers.

Preferred Qualifications:
1) Candidate must have BS/BA degree in Accounting or Finance; certification as a CIA /CISA /CPA is highly preferred.
2) Candidate must have a minimum of 2-4 years audit experience. Experience with the Big 4 audit firms or in similar internal audit roles in large organizations highly preferred.
3) Considerable knowledge of and skill in applying internal auditing and accounting principles and practices.
4) Considerable skill in planning and project management, and in maintaining composure under pressure while meeting multiple deadlines.
5) Considerable skill in effective verbal and written communications, including interviewing skills and presenting findings and recommendations.
6) Skill in negotiating issues and resolving problems.
7) Candidate must be a self-starter and be objective and work independently.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.
OR
Master's Level Degree with at least 4 years of experience.

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

Internal Auditor (SOX 404, Internal/General Audit, Planning, CPA) (#108696)

Position: Internal Auditor
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time

Job Description:
Responsibilities:
1) Maintaining all organizational and professional ethical standards. Works independently under general supervision with latitude for initiative and independent judgment.
2) Supports the development of the annual risk assessment and provides input to the development of the Annual Audit Plan.
3) Conducts and documents audits of key internal controls (SOX 404) and key operational processes
4) Performs operational audit procedures, including:
          + Designing audit program
          + Conducting interviews, reviewing documents, and preparing working papers
          + Reviewing and analyzing evidence and documenting processes and procedures
          + Identifying, developing, and documenting audit issues and recommendations.
5) Communicates or assists in communicating the results of audit projects via written reports and/or oral presentations to management.
6) Works with divisional and functional management to develop and implement practical solutions to address audit findings.
7) Pursues professional development opportunities, including external and internal training and professional association memberships, and shares information gained with co-workers.

Preferred Qualifications:
1) Candidate must have BS/BA degree in Accounting or Finance; certification as a CIA /CISA /CPA is highly preferred.
2) Candidate must have a minimum of 1-3 years audit experience. Experience with the Big 4 audit firms or in similar internal audit roles in large organizations highly preferred.
3) Knowledge of and skill in applying internal auditing and accounting principles and practices.
4) Strong skills in planning and project management, and in maintaining composure under pressure while meeting multiple deadlines.
5) Effective verbal and written communications, including interviewing skills and presenting findings and recommendations.
6) Skill in negotiating issues and resolving problems.
7) Candidate must be a self-starter, be objective and work independently.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 2-3 years of experience, or equivalent.
OR
Master's Level Degree with at least 1-3 years of experience, or equivalent.

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

Sensor System Design Engineer ( CMOS/CCD sensor | Camera system design)(#108744)

Job Title: Sensor System Design Engineer

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Fulltime

Job description:

Responsibilities:

 KLA-Tencor seeks an expert level technologist/engineer to lead the development of a high bandwidth, low noise solid-state sensor.    The candidate will be part of a team of scientists and engineers developing market leading, next generation wafer inspection and metrology systems.  The candidate will be responsible for generating sensor requirements, defining sensor architecture including device design and interfaces, driving the cooperation of manufacturing partners, verifying sensor performance and reliability, and integrating the camera sub-system.  The successful candidate will ideally have a demonstrated record of innovation and implementation of leading-generation CMOS or CCD -based sensors, from design through production and release, have the ability to quantify and articulate the merits of sensor technology and road maps, and thrive as a part of a team.

Preferred Qualifications:

4+ years of sensor design experience, preferably with high bandwidth low noise CMOS or CCD

Experience and knowledge of state-of-the-art CMOS/CCD sensor manufacturing, packaging, and testing processes

Project and vendor management skills

Camera system design and integration experience

Minimum Qualifications:

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.

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

Research Scientist (optics | metrology |Design | sensors | subsystems)(#108739)

Job Title: Research Scientist

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Fulltime

Job description:

Responsibilities:

Responsible for definition, modeling, design, integration and characterization of optical inspection and metrology systems in semiconductor industry.

The ideal candidate is innovative thinker, with solid theoretical and experimental knowledge of physical optics, optical metrology, light sources and sensors, data analysis, signal processing. Capability to convert high-level system requirements into subsystem specifications is also essential. Combination of practical hands-on skills and system level thinking is a must.  Capable and willing to design, build and use optical lab setups as a proof-of-concept benches or component test beds.

The candidate needs to be a self-motivated individual with ability to multitask and work independently or in a team. Strong written and verbal communications skills are needed for extensive interactions with members of a multi-disciplinary global team.

Preferred Qualifications:

This position requires an MS or Ph.D. in Physics, Engineering or related field.

Background in any of the following is a strong plus: optical microscopy, optical design, near-field optics, EM modeling, opto-mechanical system design, optical metrology, interferometry, control systems, Monte Carlo simulation, and semiconductor processing.

Basic Qualifications:

MS in Physics,

OR

PhD in Physics or any Engineering or related field

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

Software Engineer (C++, .Net, Object Oriented, UML, Mathematical Modeling/Analytical) (#108747)

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

Job Description:
The Wafer Inspection Division (WIN) of KLA-Tencor designs and manufactures systems that are used for capturing yield-impacting defects at the front-end-of-line (FEOL) and the back-end-of-line (BEOL). A successful candidate will be joining a world leader in wafer inspection products and technologies designing and manufacturing the next generation of products. The Wafer Inspection Division (WIN) is seeking a Software Engineer in our Milpitas, California campus.

Responsibilities:
1) You will be a key member of our global, highly integrated multi-disciplinary team of engineers responsible for maintaining and evolving a software subsystem designed to provide real-time data analysis capability to inspection tools and data analysis applications.
2) You will work with marketing and applications to innovate competitive software analysis solutions designed to address specific customer needs.
3) You will have responsibility for all aspects of software design from requirement analysis to optimization and characterization to field deployment and support.
4) You will also be responsible for integrating multiple software sub-systems to solve some the most advanced technical challenges facing the semiconductor chip industry.

Preferred Qualifications:
a) Must have programming experience in one of the following languages: C++, COM or .NET
b) Experience with mathematical modeling and strong knowledge of statistics desired.
c) Must have demonstrated experience with creative problem solving.
d) Semiconductor equipment industry experience and/or Image/data processing experience a plus.
e) Knowledge of large scale storage technologies a plus.
f) Experience with Object-Oriented software analysis and design using UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling.

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.
OR
Doctorate (Academic).

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

Product Marketing Manager (Sales Management | Marketing | Product Life Cycle | Semiconductor Capital Equipment) (# 106091)

Position: Product Marketing Manager

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Full time

Job Description:

- Assist a key product development activity within the e-beam inspection product line. Examples of activities include detailed product requirements and timelines based on solid market data; collecting and analyzing market data; acting as the marketing assignee to a PLC team.

- Own or assist product management for one or more key regions in the world. Since our sales cycles are long and our customer base is small, marketing must take a key role in overseeing our critical-customer relationships. Activities included are overseeing escalations on current and legacy products, developing sales-strategies with the global team, understanding current- and emerging-customer requirements, and over-seeing demos, evaluations and projects for those customers. It is, of course, necessary to be well-liked by internal and external customers, so integrity, responsiveness, and humor can be important skills too. This requires traveling to the region on a regular basis, sometimes on short notice and staying in steady contact through emails, conference calls etc. Mentoring and developing the RPM in that region is a key responsibility.

- Help to develop value messages on our products based on data in alignment with applications and engineering. This includes understanding what is important to our customers, what we can credibly deliver to our customers, and conveying these messages in a succinct way to users, technical buyers and economic buyers. How do we solve mission critical problems? Why should the customer buy our product?

- Lead projects through influence and wise council. Be moderate, temperate, unflappable and approachable at all times. Know when to bring in additional advisors.

- Understand and be able to explain all key systems that applications touches to get entitlement including optics, image processing, system noise, sensitivity/throughput tradeoffs and binning.

- Input and signoff on MRDs for products as well as PLC phase exits.

- Help to develop and maintain market metrics and follow marketing best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Detailed applications knowledge of KT inspection products and customer use cases.

2. BS, MS or PhD. in EE, Applied Physics, Materials Science or related fields.

3. 3+ years of experience in semiconductor or semiconductor equipment industry.

4. Willing and able to travel domestically and overseas as required, including trips on short-notice.

Basic Qualification:

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

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

Technical Program Manager (Semiconductor Equipment hardware |scheduling | budgeting | Negotiation | Product Life Cycle | Supply chain) (#108748)

Job Title: Technical Program Manager

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description:

Business Unit: GSS group

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to drive various Engineering programs/projects in support the Spares supply chain for our fleet of over 200 fielded products.  The successful candidate will join the GSS Sustaining Engineering group with global teams with wide range of multiple engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities:

Lead cross-functional teams that are focused on the delivery of a product or part from design to release for customers:

1.Creates presentations as required to support internal and external program reviews

2.Develops, defines, executes and tracks project plans, schedules, budgets and deliverables

3.Identifies needed resources for projects

4.Defines and assigns major project roles

5.Monitors the product/program/project from initiation through delivery, interfacing with internal/external customers or field-based employees on technical matters as needed

6.Assigns and monitors work of other engineers, providing technical support and direction

7.Able to effectively interface with functional engineering managers, program managers, marketing, applications, manufacturing, field service and customers

8.Proactively communicates issues and manages the solution paths

9.Able to lead and manage multifunctional teams which may be globally distributed

10.Good understanding of the Product Life Cycle (PLC) process.  Hold Design and Gate Reviews with cross-functional and facilitate necessary approval.

11.Ensures that the PLC is communicated and followed within the program's engineering team.  Provides feedback to the process development team on ways to improve the PLC.

12.Perform other duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

The successful candidate will likely have:

1.Experience with semiconductor Equipment hardware - Electrical, Mechanical systems and assemblies.
2.Strong communication and problem solving skills

3.Able to present project status and review to senior management staff

4.Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills with the ability to influence, motivate, mentor and lead team resources

5.Sufficient technical knowledge and experience to be able to communicate effectively with the engineering teams and to check/review their plans and progress

6.Able to multitask and set priority based on changing business environment

7.Ability to translate, statistically analyze data and effectively report problems/status through written and/or graphical formats

8.Well verse in MS Office Application suite including Project

9.Self-starter; self-motivator; willing to do what it takes to get the job done

10.Able to perform data mining and analysis in Excel and Access is a plus

11.Good understanding of the role of Service in the semiconductor equipment industry is a plus

12.Experience in working with Supply Chain including supplier negotiation is a plus

Basic Qualification:

Minimum 2 years of Project/Program Management AND

Doctorate in Engineering/Physics with at least 8 years of experience OR

Master's Level Degree in Engineering/Physics with at least 10 years of experience. OR

Bachelor's Level Degree in Engineering/Physics with at least 12 years of experience. OR

Related relevant industry experience.

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

Technical Instructor (BS or MS in Physics or Optics)(Good communication| FAB| Troubleshoot| Thinfilm metrology| Design curriculum)(#108682)

Job Title: Technical Instructor

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description:

1.Responsible for conducting technical training courses for customers and/or employees in the use of complex situations for multiple products. 

2.Interfaces with customer and functional organizations to develop specifications for content of courses.

3.Prepares lesson plans from engineering documentation, field service requirements, or software documentation.  Works with engineering, technical support, and manufacturing to ensure that course material reflects current product features. 

4.Instructs participants in both classroom lectures and laboratory sessions. 

5.Follows up to determine applicability of course material.

Technical Instructor works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.  Exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.  Requires a Masters degree or equivalent experience.

Education and Experience:

1.BS or Master degree in physics or optics or equivalent work experience.

2.Semiconductor experience in working with optical subsystems, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.

3.Experience working in a mixed environment with engineering and product support teams to identify and design learning curriculum to support tool performance needs of a field service engineer.

4.Formal training in instructional systems design or industry experience.

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

IT Business Engagement Director (Analysis | project life cycle | SAP | Oracle | PeopleSoft) (#108199)

Job Title: IT Business Engagement Director

Location:  Milpitas, CA

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description:

Specifically, the responsibilities of the Director IT Business Engagement include:

Team Leadership: Lead teams of individuals in the Information Systems to lead its Relation Management for the Product divisions and Global Operations. Interact with subordinate supervisors, customers, and functional groups to become the central point of contact for understanding all of the customer uses cases.

Create business requirement and Design, Develop and Implement technical solutions to support the company's growth requirements

Measurable Goals and Deliverables: Use metrics to provide quantitative analytics of system availability, performance, capacity planning and cost effectiveness. Improve Total Cost of Ownership and customer satisfaction for the corporate desktop computing environment.

Project Management: Coordinate interfaces among corporate computing platforms, evaluating new hardware and software, developing budget and cost analyses, and providing technical leadership and support to staff and other end-users.

Establish Strategic Relationships: Partner with key vendors, other IT service groups, and company departments to ensure the most practical technical solutions are available.

Communications and Leadership: The position is required to lead, consult and Manage across an extensive global organization. The position is often called upon to present to Executive Management, International organizations and in customer forums, and hence must possess an IT base knowledge and technology, and be able to articulate, both in written and oral form, and adapt communications for clarity to the audience

Education and Experience:

Strong project management experience, including full-project life cycle Management, coordination of multiple projects and Management of project planning and oversight.

Demonstrated strategic, visionary, and customer focused planning. Strong leadership with excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

Operations background with experience providing technology solutions in a global high-tech business environment.

Experience with deployment of large enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft).

Engineering/Product Development Support: Extensive background in supporting global Engineering functions is very important in this position. This function provides key support and consulting services to Product Development groups, including assisting in design and integration of information technologies into KLA-Tencor products and services. The organization also consults and interacts extensively with KLA-Tencor customers, particularly customer IT organizations, in integrating products, services and solutions into customer operations.

The Director provides the leadership for these activities and is often the focal point with Product Development initiatives and customer problem solving when IT issues are involved.

Information Security: Security continues to be a key challenge across KLA-Tencor's global operations and within customer operations. The Enterprise Services organization provides an essential service in designing, implementing and consulting on information security solutions. The Director provides a key leadership role in understanding security issues and solutions, and designing process and technologies to ensure information security while maintaining productivity. Also assist in developing and implementing a comprehensive risk-based strategy for IP and information assets protection.

Basic Qualification:

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

OR

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

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

Senior Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer (108717) (DUV Systems)

Job Title: Senior Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer

Location: Milpitas, CA

Position: Full time

 

Responsibilities:

The Surfscan-ADE division of KLA-Tencor is an industry leading supplier of wafer inspection and metrology systems. Wafer suppliers and device manufacturers worldwide rely on our measurement and inspection systems to certify and ensure the highest quality bare silicon substrates. Semiconductor device yields begin with the bare wafer, and our leading technologies provide early insight into surface defects, shape, flatness and nanotopography of these advanced 300 and 450mm substrates. Our optical inspection and metrology tools will support the next several generations of wafer and IC manufacturing.

 We are seeking a Senior Opto-Mechanical Engineer whose responsibilities will be to:

Define the architecture of cutting edge wafer inspection systems.

Work alongside optical engineers to understand and engineer solutions to critical opto-mechanical requirements.

Lead the development and qualification of complex opto-mechanical assemblies.

Assume responsibility for design, fabrication, alignment, performance characterization, and technical interaction with vendors.

Perform hands-on use of conventional and cutting edge DUV metrology tools to characterize subsystem performance.  System level inspection tool operation will also be used to establish and verify subsystem requirements and operation.

Collaboratively interact with a multidisciplinary project team and regularly communicate requirements and results in oral and written form.

Some travel may be required.

Qualifications :

Candidates must possess the following qualities:

Visionary 3D thinker capable of taking complex concepts and packaging them in a manufacturable design.

Capable 3D modeler who enjoys iterating through multiple product architecture proposals with an open mind for improvement and progress.

Understand complex mechanical tolerancing.

Able to collaborate with Optical Engineers to engineer a complete alignment methodology.

Top down thinker who understands all current manufacturing technologies.

Experience taking conceptual information and architecting multiple solutions and approaches to solving design challenges.

Experience with actively adapting to changing design requirements.

Firm foundation in machine design.

Experience with optical alignment methodology and tooling.

Candidates will have some combination of the following qualities:

Experience with Opto-Mechanical design principles: kinematic design, flexures, athermalization, environmental effects.

Experience designing opto-mechanical modules and custom fixtures and tooling leading to successful introduction into manufacturing.

Structural analysis: finite element analysis, stress in optics, creep and stress relaxation, modal analysis.

Experience working with Optical metrology equipment including lasers, interferometers, autocollimators.

Fundamental optics knowledge: geometric optics, ray tracing, wavefront propogation, polarization, fabrication tolerances, environmental effects desired.

Thermal analysis: heat transfer, temperature gradients, thermal transients, thermo-elastic analysis.

Vendor management: component fabrication, manufacturing process transfer, qualification.

Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 12 years of experience or equivalent.

OR

Master's Level Degree with at least 8 years of experience or equivalent.

OR

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

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

Global Talent Communications Manager (# 108697)

Position: Global Talent Communications Manager

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Full time

Job Description:

The Customer Group (CG) team is our field based, customer facing organization consisting of Sales, Marketing, Applications, Finance, Human Resources, Facilities & IT.  They partner closely with our customers to provide a comprehensive portfolio of products, services, software and expertise, to help them manage yield throughout their fabrication process-from research and development to final volume production.  Responsibilities of this group include maintaining strategic client relationships, identifying and closing sales opportunities, ensuring our products meet performance capabilities & expectations, providing critical solutions for improved yield performance, and collecting requirements for future products by understanding customer processes and technology trends.  Partnering with our service organization and factory divisions, this diverse and dynamic team helps ensure alignment between customer needs and corporate offering to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

1) Develop and implement an overall internal communications strategy which engages employees with KLA-Tencor strategy

2) Create and execute successful communications programs that strengthen leaders, managers and employees understanding of KLA-Tencor strategy

3) Define global messaging and communication themes in line with the company strategy, brand promise and value proposition

4) Work with executives in key functional roles including CEO, CMO, and HR to identify communications objectives, brainstorm creative solutions, develop communications plans, and lead or provide oversight of the programs or plans through multiple channels (programs may include Open Enrollment, Sustainability, PMP, Health and Wellness)

5) Develop an overall plan for targeted communications efforts using all available and appropriate channels including town halls, brown bag lunches, intranet, apps, web and email, print materials, etc.

6) Provide communications advice and support to business leaders, other internal communication roles, consultants and senior support staff on a range of ad hoc issues and projects as required (e.g. Organizational Announcements)

7) Design and execute Global All Hands, webcasts and other face-to-face communications and interactions to all employees or specific audiences from the CEO and other executives

8) Drive the development of online and offline communications projects such as videos, apps, microsites, Web content, KLA-Tencor’s Global Collaboration Platform and other communications

9) Design programs to ensure leaders stay connected with employees, taking a constant pulse on their attitudes, needs, priorities and communications preferences (e.g. Quarterly GM/VP Toolkit, Engagement Survey Communications)

10) Oversee crisis communication strategy and process, ensuring that KLA-Tencor is prepared to quickly and appropriately communicate with employees on unforeseen crises and issues

11) Design metrics to measure progress and results for communication strategies as required

Technical Competencies:

- Business knowledge

- Communication planning, including experience with current web practices, supporting technologies, new media (including social media and viral messaging)

- Change management

- Exceptional research, writing and editing, and in particular, the ability to write in different styles to reflect the nature of the stakeholder, audience and message

- Strong project management skills, and the ability to execute programs with speed, accuracy and efficiency

 Cultural Competencies

- Creative thinker, with a desire and ability to look for better ways to approach issues and situations

- Compelling storyteller

- Positive, can-do attitude

- Uncompromising commitment to quality and details; able to uncover defects and develop solutions while also able to see the big picture

- Self-motivated, with an appetite for working entrepreneurially and a track record as self-starter

- Strong team orientation, with a strong sense of commitment to team members and clients

- Skilled in cross-cultural communication; demonstrates heightened awareness of cross-cultural issues and strong capability of working across boundaries and differences

- Evidence of intellectual curiosity as demonstrated by other professional training and outside activities; experience and interest in learning about new technologies

- Flexibility to travel globally, attend events as required and to work, if needed, outside of standard business hours

Emotional Intelligence Competencies:

- Demonstrates self-awareness and self-control

- Conveys empathy

- Displays social expertness

- Able to exert personal influence

- Demonstrates mastery of purpose and vision

Minimum Qualifications:

- Undergraduate degree in marketing, communications or related field is preferred

- At least 10 years of demonstrated impact in internal or external roles involving executive communications with examples of non-traditional, innovative approaches

- Experience working for a global Company, and demonstrated competence in communicating with internationally dispersed employees / teams

- A track record of working effectively with senior management (VP and C-Level) and forming peer-level relationships with other senior members of an organization

- Proven history of developing successful multi-channel, global internal communications programs

- Experience in managing core and virtual teams that include speech writers, graphics designers, consultants and agencies

- Past record of successfully driving programs with tight deadlines

- Expertise in multi-tasking, prioritizing, and succeeding in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

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