Etch Equipment Field Installation and 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 Equipment Engineering and Development Group is a multi-disciplined team, providing automation solutions to enable the integration of SPTS process systems into customer semiconductor fabrication factories worldwide!

This is an exciting new role that allows a candidate to work in new technologies and to be involved in many different and new projects.

As the successful candidate, you will be an experienced multidisciplinary Engineer with an understanding of electrical, electronic and mechanical systems able to build a solid expertise in overall system operation, integration, and calibrations/diagnostics. Must have a hands-on approach by learning from the engineering team to support Alpha & Beta Systems and retrofits.

You would be working with other specialists in the group with equipment design/integration and expect to work to tight deadlines in a highly regulated industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain, develop, and improve ETCH semiconductor process equipment hardware. 
• Building and fault finding in new designs in the factory as part of our PLC process
• Installation and fault finding of new products at customer sites
• Must be willing to travel internationally ~ 50% often travelling to customers to assist with problems
• Reporting back to the factory on improvements and customer requirements.
• Wiring harness and mechanical design
• Improve serviceability of new designs
• Testing and compliance of machines to international standards
• Technical report writing
• Plan and execute hardware testing, validation, and performance characterisation. 
• Work with process engineers to optimise hardware performance for reliability and process capability. 
• Support technology development programmes from early concept through to customer-ready 

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum HNC Electrical/ Mechanical/ Mechatronics or related field and experience in a customer facing role
• Experience working in a design role with an eye for continuous improvement
• An understanding of Machinery safety regulations and EU harmonized standards, EN60204, EN13849 preferable
• Experience in diagnosing faults and an analytical mind
• AutoCAD Electrical or equivalent experience 3D CAD experience is desired
• Driving license

Key Skills:

• A flexible work ethic and ability to use initiative
• Good analytical and fault-finding skills
• Able to work both autonomously and as part of a team
• Well organised – You’ll work autonomously, often in different time zones and be trusted to work without assistance or management.
• Composed – You’ll thrive in the sometimes-pressurised environment of semiconductor manufacturing environments.
• Able to demonstrate strong Communication skills – You’ll enjoy establishing and maintaining good working relationships with both customers and colleagues.

We will seek to give as much notice as possible for travel, but trips may be at very short notice and can be for extended periods of time. KLA will of course, provide travel expenses and accommodation, in line with our travel policy.

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

What we will offer you? KLA's 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

Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years

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.