Software Engineer (Full Stack)

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 KLA Services team consists of Service Sales, Marketing, Spares Supply Chain Management, Field Operations, Engineering, Product Training, Digital Solutions and Analytics, and Technical Product Support. Our services organization maximizes the value of our customers' KLA assets – with highly trained service and product support engineers providing installation services and 24/7 technical support and parts delivery through our extensive supply chain network.

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.

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays.

The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and in 2019 we invested 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

The Global Service Support Organization (GSS) team headquartered in Milpitas, CA, is our service organization that consists of Service Sales and Marketing, Spares Supply Chain management, Field Operations, Engineering, Product Training, and Technical Support. The GSS organization partners with our field teams and customers in all business sectors to maintain the high performance and productivity of our products through a flexible portfolio of services. Our comprehensive services include: proactive management of tools to identify and improve performance; expertise in optics, image processing and motion control with worldwide service engineers, 24/7 technical support teams and knowledge management systems; and an extensive parts network to ensure worldwide availability of parts.

The GSS organization's Engineering group develops data systems for improved diagnostics and predictive maintenance. The data systems monitor the performance of fleets of KLA test and measurement equipment in semiconductor fabrication plant environments. They collect, transform, and store data. They provide visualizations, recommendations based on analytics, and alerts. This exciting position will enable you to interact with a wide variety of engineers and KLA system data.

• Work with a team of software, data and algorithm engineers on the design and development of web applications using real-time data visualization tools
• Collaborate with domain experts and software engineers to gather requirements
• Translate user needs to design and develop software specifications
• Select software components for applications
• Follow best coding practices
• Develop User Interfaces that help engineers to more effectively monitor, diagnose and optimize KLA semiconductor inspection and metrology equipment

• Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms)
• Proficiency in web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and libraries/frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue, etc.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as C#, C++, Java, Python etc.
• Experience developing clean, efficient, and performant user interfaces
• Full stack development experience
• Strong communication skills
• Familiarity with Human Centered Design, and interest in working with users to understand their needs and building interfaces to meet them
• Experience using charting libraries such as D3, Chart.js
• Experience with REST interfaces
• Ability to structure and build complex client-side applications
• Familiarity with NodeJS, ASP.NET Core, Django or similar back end frameworks
• Experience working in a service-oriented or microservice architecture
• Experience with modern software engineering practices (XP)
• Experience using artificial intelligence in software engineering