Senior Mechanical Design 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. The SPTS division provides advanced wafer processing solutions—including etch, deposition and vapor-based technologies—designed for R&D through high-volume production. With a global presence and strong customer support network, SPTS helps manufacturers across industries improve performance, yield and cost-efficiency. It also offers comprehensive service and spare parts through a worldwide network of service centers and qualified local agents.

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.

Part of the SPTS Engineering division, the Platform Hardware Group is a multi-disciplined team, providing automation solutions to enable the integration of SPTS process systems into customer semiconductor fabrication factories worldwide. A Platform Mechanical Design Engineer designs and supports core structural, mechanical and thermal systems.

As the successful candidate, you will be an experienced Mechanical Engineer with good understanding of designing components to operate in challenging environments in a highly competitive industry.  You would be supporting major cross department projects and so previous exposure to other fields of engineering, preferable electrical would be desirable.

You would be working with other engineers in the group with equipment design/integration and expect to work to tight deadlines in a highly regulated industry. You would show initiative and be motivated to learn new skills, very adaptable and keen to take advantage of the opportunities SPTS can offer in progressing your personal development. You will be based in the Newport factory; however, this position may also involve a small amount of international travel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mechanical design projects from concept to release as product.
• Designing mechanical components to operate in a vacuum environment.
• Working in multi-disciplined project teams for systems design.
• Pneumatic systems design.
• Obsolescence engineering.
• Producing key reports from first principles to meet regulation requirements.  
• Other documentation –Service Bulletins, Procedures, Reports, Engineering Drawings.

Support activities:

• Support other areas of the business such a Manufacturing, Commodity and NPL departments.
• Bill of material cost control
• Supplier contact
• Building and testing prototypes
• Leading small projects from concept to implementation
• Mentoring to junior engineers

Experience in the following areas is desirable but not essential:

• Previous experience of working in the semiconductor or hi-technology related industry would be advantageous. 
• Experience of ERP/PLM/PDM systems
• Experience in P&ID's
• Experience with CE/SEMI (or equivalent) compliance requirements would be desirable.

Key Skills:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Be flexible and able to prioritize.
• The ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team.
• Good IT Skills (minimum Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

Occasional domestic and international travel, including to the United States, may be required as part of this role

What we will offer you?

Our benefits package includes:

Annual leave starting at 25 days (plus bank holidays), contributory pension scheme, cash health plan, cycle to work scheme, global bonus plan, share scheme, rewards scheme, life assurance, generous shift allowance and overtime premiums.

Minimum Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum Degree in Mechanical/Mechatronics engineering or related.
• 3D CAD experience with Solid Edge or similar is essential.
• Proven experience working in a development and design environment.
• Design experience for CNC machining and fabrication is essential.
• Experience using FEA (Finite Element Analysis) analysis tools.
• Excellent knowledge of GD&T

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.