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

Product Engineering Manager (NPI | Optics | Image processing | Motion control) (# 108321)

Position: Product Engineering Manager

Location: Milpitas, CA

Duration: Full time

Job Description:

The Global Service Support Organization (GSS) team headquartered in Milpitas, CA is our service organization that consists of Service Sales and Marketing, Spares Supply Chain management, Field Operations, Product Training, and Technical Support.  The GSS organization partners with our field teams and customers in all business sectors to maintain the high performance and productivity of our products through a flexible portfolio of services. Our comprehensive services include: proactive management of tools to identify and improve performance; expertise in optics, image processing and motion control with worldwide service engineers, 24/7 technical support teams and knowledge management systems; and an extensive parts network to ensure worldwide availability of parts.

New Product Introduction Manager will be responsible for leading and managing a team of NPI engineers. Serves as the central technical resource / interface with design engineering, manufacturing, technical support, quality, marketing and field as the product(s) move through the Product Life Cycle. Will be fully integrated and working directly with aforementioned teams to incorporate value added serviceability, reliability and service business practice improvements into product design.  Works to optimize serviceability, reduce cost-of-service through all stages of the PLC, and improve short and long term product service revenue performance. Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle to ensure system level product performance is continuously tracked and meets established specification. Drives continuous improvement of system hardware, diagnostics and software, tooling, technical documentation, knowledge management, and training.

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.

OR

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

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