Product 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/DivisionThe 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. KLA's Central Engineering organization is made up of nine Centers of Excellence (CoEs) spanning disciplines like automation, motion control, sensors, platform design, and packaging. Each CoE contributes not only technical deliverables but also deep expertise, best practices, and advanced tools that elevate both what we build-and how we build it. 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 seeking a Product Engineer to support wafer inspection tools in the Central Engineering Group in Ann Arbor. This role is responsible for daytoday tool availability, performance, and operational readiness within established processes and guidance. The position focuses on operating, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuously improving tool performance through close collaboration with systems, software, hardware, applications, service, and manufacturing teams. Success in this role requires focused problem solving, clear documentation, and effective coordination across the global engineering user community to keep development moving forward! Successful candidates will be responsible for: Serve as the engineering tool owner for assigned wafer inspection tools, ensuring availability, readiness, and stable performance for engineering and demo activities. Monitor tool health, uptime, and performance; identify issues and drive timely resolution with multifunctional teams to enhance reliability and usability. Implement and support calibration, specification validation, and preventive maintenance activities, verifying tool capability after configuration or maintenance changes. Resolve tool issues using structured rootcause analysis across software, hardware, optics, motion control, and wafer handling subsystems, with senior guidance as needed. Support customer demos in partnership with Applications Engineers by preparing tools and supporting execution, ensuring demo requirements are met. Ensure proper care, custody, and traceability of customer wafers by following established handling and specialconsideration procedures to protect wafer integrity. Document investigations, test results, and lessons learned to enable knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. Provide oncall or offhours support during critical activities; work in an ISO Class 5 cleanroom and collaborate with team members to maintain 5S standards. Qualifications/Education Desired Demonstrated understanding of precision instruments and control systems; experience with semiconductor inspection or metrology tools is a plus. Handson experience troubleshooting complex electromechanical or optical systems; exposure to DOE or datadriven troubleshooting prferred. Strong verbal, written, interpersonal, and analytical skills to support technical documentation and crossteam co