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/Division
The Semiconductor Products and Customers (Semi PC) business unit designs, builds and sells KLA’s product portfolio to help chip manufacturers meet high-quality standards to enable 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.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.
- Mechanical development in a matrix-based environment, part of highly dynamic team.
- Development in multidisciplinary environment.
- Responsibility of own development tasks, delivery and quality.
- Hands-on (including assemblies and testing) as mechanics engineer of one of our cutting-edge products.
Minimum Qualifications
- BSc in mechanical engineering
- At least 5 years of experience as mechanical engineer in multi-disciplinary product development environment.
- Highly experience in Solid Works and EPDM
- Familiarity in PLM environments (Enovia – advantage)
- Experience in manufacturing technology (milling, sheet-metal)
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills
- Good system level understanding.
- Travel – up to 20%
Advantges:
- Experience in design of tools or other equipment for Semi-conductors\ PCB markets
- Experience in optomechanical design
- Experience in a high precision level motion system
- Experience in Creo
About KLA
We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.
Use of AI Statement
At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.
We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.
KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering
- At least 5 years of experience as a mechanical engineer in a multidisciplinary product development environment
- Highly experienced with SolidWorks and EPDM
- Familiarity with PLM environments; ENOVIA is advantageous
- Experience with manufacturing technologies, including milling and sheet metal
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
- Good system-level understanding
- Experience designing tools or equipment for semiconductor or PCB markets
- Experience in optomechanical design
- Experience with high-precision motion systems
- Experience with Creo
KLA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about KLA and has not been reviewed or approved by KLA.
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Retirement Support — U.S. programs include a formulaic 401(k) employer match with clearly described plan designs in company materials. Consistent plan structure and employer matching signal strong support for long‑term savings.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — A broad base of employees is eligible for RSUs and can participate in an ESPP, extending ownership beyond executives. Company materials position equity as a core component of total compensation.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — A quarterly profit‑sharing program and performance bonuses are outlined in filings, providing regular variable pay opportunities. These incentives complement base pay and equity to lift overall earnings in strong periods.
KLA Insights
What We Do
KLA develops industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. We provide advanced process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles. In close collaboration with leading customers across the globe, our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers design solutions that move the world forward.
