Senior Analyst, Algorithm Development Engineering

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.

Group/Division

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA's metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientists, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The LS-SWIFT Division of KLA's Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to deliver market-leading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors. Customers from the foundry, logic, memory, automotive, MEMS, advanced packaging and other markets rely upon high-sample wafer inspection information generated by LS-SWIFT products. LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable cost-effective patterned wafer defect detection for the industry's most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leading-edge foundry, logic, DRAM, and NAND fabs. SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver all-wafer-surface (frontside, backside, and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC, MEMS, and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs. LS-SWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US, Singapore, India and Germany, and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia, Europe and North America.

Responsibilities

• Design, development and implementation of cutting-edge deep computer vision, signal processing, traditional machine learning or image processing algorithms.
• Rapid prototyping and validation of new image processing, machine learning related ideas.
• Develop end-to-end solutions that are holistic considering the system, imaging pipeline, the user experience and the end application requirement
• Work in a highly cross-functional organization to participate/drive systems integration of algorithms.
• Write robust production quality code.
• Own prototype to production of algorithms

Strong background in one or more of the following areas:

• Signal processing, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image processing
• Proficiency in C/C++, Matlab, Python and object-oriented design
• Experience in design and rendering software is a plus
• Knowledge of common deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Ability to formulate problems into mathematical equations.
• Team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel worldwide to support demos and projects at customer sites.

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience;
• Masters Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years;
• Bachelors Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years