Field Process Application 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.

We currently have a vacancy for the position of Field Application Engineer.  This position will report directly to European Application Manager Jafar Al-Kuzee. This position will involve both national and international travel.

The Field Application Engineer is responsible for supporting all aspects of customer qualification, responding to customer queries and visiting the customer to follow up progress.  Some key activities will include:

Qualifying a customer

Together with the field team obtaining filed acceptance on customer’s sites.

Sales support

Providing answers to questions from the customer.  Visiting the customer to progress the opportunity through discussion and presentation. 

Develop information sources

Developing contacts at customers, suppliers, analysts etc that can be used as sources of market or competitor intelligence

Product development

Suggesting potential upgrade opportunities.  Identifying weaknesses in the product based on customer needs

Key Behavioural Competencies

• Enthusiastic with a positive attitude
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Excellent attention to detail
• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines as individual
• Able to work across all levels within the company, and across regions
• Excellent communication skills, both written and presentational

Key Responsibilities

The Field Application Engineer will provide input and support to customers primary on the CVD, PVD products then gradually get more involve on the ETCH side. They will also communicate and present materials that offer solutions to customer issues in conjunction with the BU groups in SPTS division. They will also be involved in providing and presenting customers with training materials. The role will require heavy travel mainly in Europe that may exceed 50% of total time. Occasional weekend work and international travel may also be required for the role.

Skills and Experience

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate some knowledge of how semiconductors are manufactured, the processing of semiconductors by plasma CVD, PVD or Etch and semiconductor packaging. Experience of wafer processing gained at either an equipment vendor or wafer fab would be advantageous.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years

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

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.