Company Overview
Job Description/Preferred Qualifications
Responsibilities:
- Deliver well-defined features/components with high-level guidance: estimate work, communicate risks/tradeoffs, and deliver on schedule
- Collaborate cross-functionally across the development lifecycle to define architecture and create system- and subsystem-level requirements/specifications
- Implement and debug multithreaded code and support integration across system/subsystem boundaries (including hardware/software interfaces)
- Develop C#/.NET and C++ software for GUI and data analysis; write maintainable code and use AI-assisted tools responsibly under company security policies
- Build robust unit/integration tests and use profiling to improve performance, memory usage, reliability, and security
- Participate in design reviews and incorporate feedback from stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Troubleshoot system/subsystem issues using logs and experiments; contribute to root-cause analysis, implement fixes with guidance, and help prevent recurrence
- Demonstrate motivation to independently learn and apply new software technologies
Travel - Occasional travel may be required to KLA headquarters, customer sites, or other business locations. Travel is expected to be less than 10% of working time.
Skils & Qualifications:
- A solid understanding and demonstrated track record in the practice of software engineering fundamentals, including architecture, data structures, design patterns, event-driven design, multithreaded design, testing, and debugging.
- Experience with:
Microsoft .NET languages including VB.NET and C#
C++ programming
Microsoft Visual Studio development environment
Source code control systems such as Git - Adherence to software design and coding standards
- Ability to communicate effectively with peers, interdisciplinary engineering groups, customers, and suppliers, including delivering clear technical presentations
- Adept at collaborating with teams across the US, Europe, and Asia
- Self-driven individual with strong technical ability, a systematic approach, and excellent problem-solving skills
Preferred:
- Experience contributing to architecture and design for complex subsystems and influencing technical decisions through strong design and code reviews
- Experience improving performance and diagnostics/observability for system-level software
- Experience collaborating across teams on system integration and software releases for complex systems
- Experience delivering AI/ML capabilities in products
- UX skills including wireframing, prototyping, and user flow design
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors degree (required) with significant relevant experience; Masters or advanced degree (desired) with relevant experience in Software, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, or Physics.
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
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Software, Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing Engineering, Physics, or related
- Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals including architecture, data structures, design patterns, event-driven and multithreaded design, testing, and debugging
- Experience with Microsoft .NET languages including VB.NET and C#
- C++ programming experience
- Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio development environment
- Experience with source code control systems such as Git
- Adherence to software design and coding standards
- Ability to communicate effectively with peers, interdisciplinary engineering groups, customers, and suppliers
- Adept at collaborating with teams across the US, Europe, and Asia
- Self-driven with strong technical ability, systematic approach, and excellent problem-solving skills
- Experience contributing to architecture and design for complex subsystems and influencing technical decisions
- Experience improving performance and diagnostics/observability for system-level software
- Experience collaborating across teams on system integration and software releases for complex systems
- Experience delivering AI/ML capabilities in products
- UX skills including wireframing, prototyping, and user flow design
- Master's or advanced degree (desired)
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.







