System engineer - Multidisciplinary Project Lead

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.

Responsibilities

Technical and Project Leadership & Ownership

• Manage multidisciplinary projects in the RnD as part of the engineering system organization
• Translate business and customer requirements into detailed system and subsystem requirements.
• Lead system architecture decisions and technical trade-off evaluations.
• Serve as the system requirements gatekeeper and ensure consistency across disciplines.
• Drive technical decision-making and maintain alignment between product goals and engineering execution. 

Product Delivery

• Own the engineering development plan for the product.
• Lead multi-disciplinary execution across System, HW, SW, Algorithms, Process, Applications, and Manufacturing.
• Manage product integration, qualification, and readiness for alpha, beta, and customer releases.
• Track progress, identify gaps, and drive corrective actions to meet program objectives.
• Ensure the product meets performance, quality, and reliability specifications. 

System Integration & Validation

• Plan and lead system integration activities across development teams.
• Verify compliance with system requirements and customer expectations.
• Define calibration flows and system verification approaches.
• Support validation, qualification, and customer acceptance activities.
• Lead root-cause analysis for complex technical and performance issues. 

Technical Risk Management

• Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation plans.
• Lead design reviews, risk reviews, and technical progress meetings.
• Facilitate decision-making across disciplines when priorities or technical opinions diverge.
• Own system-level issue resolution and escalation management.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering and system-development processes. 

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary engineering interface to PLC, Applications, and Field support organizations.
• Collaborate with Product Management to define product direction and priorities.
• Communicate technical status, risks, and decisions to leadership and stakeholders.
• Support customer-facing discussions, beta-site activities, and field escalations when required. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex cross-functional projects, including planning, execution, stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and delivery of results in a dynamic environment.
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in multidisciplinary R&D environments.
• Proven experience leading complex system development programs.
• Strong understanding of system engineering, architecture, integration, and qualification methodologies.
• Experience working with Hardware, Software, Algorithms, Applications, and Manufacturing teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to drive execution and influence without direct authority.

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.