System Design Engineer (eBeam)

About the role

KLA, a global leader in electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, is looking for a System Design Engineer for its EBeam product line. EBeam provides defect and critical location information on wafers at the highest spatial resolution, working alongside KLA's patterned and bare wafer inspectors. The successful candidate joins the Systems Engineering team, which develops, integrates and characterizes systems including electron sources, detectors, electro-optical components, vacuum, high-voltage electronics, signal and image processing and machine control software.

Key responsibilities

• Work at the customer site to support complex technical problem solving and system development.
• Achieve functional understanding of the system and its subsystem interactions to perform root cause analysis.
• Liaise between the Systems Engineering Team and the Customer Support Team (product development and product maintenance).
• Coordinate with the team to design multidisciplinary experiments for troubleshooting, performance resolution and optimization, and run them at the customer site, which may involve scripting, log analysis and data visualization.
• Interpret system error modes and their impact on performance and availability.

Required profile

• Advanced degree in Physics, Engineering Physics, Engineering Design, Mechanical, Electrical or Materials and Metallurgical Engineering.
• Hands-on experience in experimental or lab environments (research, internships or industry).
• Doctorate or Master's degree with 0 years of related work experience, or Bachelor's degree with 3 years of related work experience.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to give effective technical presentations.
• 70% travel required, as the role is based in the Taiwan business unit.

Required skills

• Machine control and/or scientific data analysis experience.
• Proficiency in scripting (MATLAB, Python or similar) for data collection, analysis and visualization.
• Preferred: knowledge of instrumentation, signal processing and optical/electro-optical systems (e.g. electron microscopes); exposure to vacuum, electron optics and high-voltage systems (SEM or similar); experience supporting prototype systems or advanced lab equipment.