Associate / Specialist, Software Technology

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 LS-SWIFT division delivers high-throughput patterned wafer inspection systems that support advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to provide industry-leading defect detection with optimal cost of ownership across a wide range of applications. LS systems enable precise, cost-effective inspection for cutting-edge process nodes, while SWIFT systems offer comprehensive macro inspection of all wafer surfaces—capabilities that are especially critical for advanced packaging, as well as logic, memory, and automotive applications. 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. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership Drive technical discussions, architecture decisions, and implementation strategies for customer-facing software features and platform capabilities. Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, production-grade software using C#, C++, Python/Java. Provide technical leadership for complex software initiatives while influencing engineering direction across teams. Evaluate and adopt modern software engineering practices, frameworks, development tools, and AI-assisted productivity solutions where appropriate. Contribute to software architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical roadmaps. Software Development & System Engineering Develop deep technical expertise in LS-SWIFT inspection system software and associated workflows. Participate in the complete software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, support, and continuous improvement. Debug and resolve complex issues across multi-process, multi-threaded, and multi-system software environments spanning Windows and Linux platforms. Design scalable, reliable, maintainable, and performant software systems that meet demanding product and customer requirements.