Product Engineer

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 for 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. KLA's Central Engineering organization is made up of nine Centers of Excellence (CoEs) spanning disciplines like automation, motion control, sensors, platform design, and packaging. Each CoE contributes not only technical deliverables but also deep expertise, best practices, and advanced tools that elevate both what we build—and how we build it.

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.

KLA is seeking a Product Engineer to support wafer inspection tools in the Central Engineering Group in Ann Arbor. This role is responsible for day‑to‑day tool availability, performance, and operational readiness within established processes and guidance. The position focuses on operating, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuously improving tool performance through close collaboration with systems, software, hardware, applications, service, and manufacturing teams. Success in this role requires focused problem solving, clear documentation, and effective coordination across the global engineering user community to keep development moving forward!

Successful candidates will be responsible for:

• Serve as the engineering tool owner for assigned wafer inspection tools, ensuring availability, readiness, and stable performance for engineering and demo activities.

• Monitor tool health, uptime, and performance; identify issues and drive timely resolution with multi‑functional teams to enhance reliability and usability.

• Implement and support calibration, specification validation, and preventive maintenance activities, verifying tool capability after configuration or maintenance changes.

• Resolve tool issues using structured root‑cause analysis across software, hardware, optics, motion control, and wafer handling subsystems, with senior guidance as needed.

• Support customer demos in partnership with Applications Engineers by preparing tools and supporting execution, ensuring demo requirements are met.

• Ensure proper care, custody, and traceability of customer wafers by following established handling and special‑consideration procedures to protect wafer integrity.

• Document investigations, test results, and lessons learned to enable knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

• Provide on‑call or off‑hours support during critical activities; work in an ISO Class 5 cleanroom and collaborate with team members to maintain 5S standards.

Qualifications/Education Desired

• Demonstrated understanding of precision instruments and control systems; experience with semiconductor inspection or metrology tools is a plus.

• Hands‑on experience troubleshooting complex electromechanical or optical systems; exposure to DOE or data‑driven troubleshooting prferred.

• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal, and analytical skills to support technical documentation and cross‑team collaboration.

• Familiarity with cleanroom operations, wafer handling concepts, and equipment safety practices.

• Ability to work on problems of moderate scope using established processes while building capability to address more complex issues.

• Up to 15% travel for training and global customer support.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years

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.

Total Rewards

Base Pay Range: $76,300.00 - $111,900.00 Annually Primary Location: USA-MI-Ann Arbor-KLA

KLA’s total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits, 401(K) including company matching, employee stock purchase program (ESPP), student debt assistance, tuition reimbursement program, development and career growth opportunities and programs, financial planning benefits, wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP), paid time off and paid company holidays, and family care and bonding leave.
Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed reflects the pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting. Actual pay depends on several factors, including state minimum pay wage rates, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education level or training. We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable. If applicable, your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

KLA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at [email protected] or at +1-408-352-2808 to request accommodation.

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