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Group/Division:
With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA’s metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers.
The LS-SWIFT Division of KLA’s Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to deliver market-leading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors. Customers from the foundry, logic, memory, automotive, MEMS, advanced packaging and other markets rely upon high-sample wafer inspection information generated by LS-SWIFT products.
LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable cost-effective patterned wafer defect detection for the industry’s most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leading-edge foundry, logic, DRAM, and NAND fabs. SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver all-wafer-surface (frontside, backside, and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC, MEMS, and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs.
LS-SWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US, Singapore, India and Germany, and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia, Europe and North America.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Software manager in this group, you will build and lead a team of smart software engineers to help our wafer inspection products to achieve the next level of performance through superior technology and the latest in software practices & machine learning. You will bring your proven experience in leading a team of engineers to conceive, design and deploy robust/scalable software for high-volume production and real time applications.
Need to lead the change to bring in the next generation SW architecture (in possibly newer tech stack) along with supporting the existing set of features done with the current SW tech stack
With respect to the value add for the position offered, expect you to:
Drive incremental value and make technical decisions that support strategic objectives
Leverage prior experience to advise against suboptimal approaches and one-time hacks, quickly pushing the team towards generic and robust solutions
Transform customer and business requirements into scalable and complete technical solutions backed by deep analysis in understanding
Easily work with legacy frameworks, while embracing and implementing modern technologies and frameworks
Communicate effectively on technical and business topics
Acquire and demonstrate technical knowledge of LS-SWIFT product software
Meet product timelines with good quality software
Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
Ensuring that detailed designs, code, and unit tests are consistent, robust, future-proof and scalable. Understand and make design and architectural improvements on existing software.
Motivated to learn newer Software technologies independently
Providing technical expertise to the estimation process. Co-create project plan with peers, update higher management regularly on the progress.
Acquire knowledge of key use cases in Patterned wafer inspection
In conjunction with the Product Manager, identify, highlight, review and mitigate technical risks
Contribute to the continued improvement of the organization's development procedures, by looking for opportunities for improvement and proposing ideas for solution
Collaborate with cross-divisional and cross-functional teams across geographical zones to develop / deliver software solutions
Passion for building and nurturing team members and help them realize full potential
Essential skills:
Good technical problem-solving skills
Strong understanding of Design patterns and Programming skills using the high-level languages - C#, C++ and Python
Strong knowledge of Architecture patterns
Good knowledge on open-source software and varied technologies (web and thick client) and have a good understanding on the strengths and weaknesses of software architectures of these technologies
Rational thinking in arriving at a decision (technical or for project)
Preferred Qualifications:
Masters or Bachelors in Engineering
UX skills – wireframing, prototyping, user flows using some well known tools
Preferred work experiences in semiconductor processing / equipment industry or product companies
Must have excellent communication, organizational, analytical, leadership, and interpersonal skills
Must be self-driven, and a strong team player
Good understanding on High Performance computing and related technologies/aids (CPU, GPU performance comparison and related toolkits) along with Machine learning basics
Preferred Qualifications:
Masters or Bachelors in Engineering
UX skills – wireframing, prototyping, user flows using some well known tools
Preferred work experiences in semiconductor processing / equipment industry or product companies
Must have excellent communication, organizational, analytical, leadership, and interpersonal skills
Must be self-driven, and a strong team player
Good understanding on High Performance computing and related technologies/aids (CPU, GPU performance comparison and related toolkits) along with Machine learning basics
Education & Experience:
Bachelors, Masters or Doctorate in computer science, Math or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
10+ years of relevant engineering experience
2+ years people management experience preferred
Equal Employment Opportunity:
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. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law. 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.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering
Industries
Semiconductor Manufacturing
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