UX/UI Designer

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.

The KLA Central Engineering Group are looking for a UX/UI Specialist to join our growing team and design intuitive workflows and interfaces for technical users. Your work will simplify complex processes and improve efficiency for engineering and operations teams.

In this role, you’ll contribute across the full UX process - from problem framing and rapid research to high fidelity design, prototyping, and handoff.

You will have opportunities to grow your skills through mentorship, collaboration, and constructive feedback. We value accessibility, inclusivity, and a culture of continuous learning.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Research & Analysis: Conduct user research and usability testing to gather insights, identify user needs, and validate design concepts.
• Design & Prototyping: Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for complex systems, ensuring they meet business and user requirements.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure designs are feasible and align with project goals.
• Design Systems: Contribute to the development and maintenance of design systems to ensure consistency across different products and tools.
• User Experience Strategy: Define and advocate for best practices in user experience design, ensuring a user-centered approach is maintained throughout the design process.
• Stay Updated: Keep abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in UX/UI design.

Minimum Qualifications

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. For this role we are looking for someone who: 

• Ideally hold a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Design (B. Design) or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or related subject.
• Experience in product/UX design with shipped work in complex or multi-step applications.
• Strength in interaction design, prototyping, and UI craft; proficiency in Figma/FigJam.
• Experience running or assisting in usability studies and synthesizing findings.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills; comfortable presenting work and rationale.
• Portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end problem solving and your contribution within a team.
• Experience in data-heavy or technical products; comfort with tables, filters, states, and validation is preferred.
• Familiarity with accessibility, localization, and performance considerations is a plus.
• Exposure to design tokens and component libraries is an advantage.

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 and life assurance.

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.