Senior Lead Talent Acquisition & University Relations

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 KLA's Human Resources team drives business success by mobilizing our global talent to achieve both short- and long-term objectives. Our strategic areas of focus encompass HR business partnerships, learning and development, talent acquisition, compensation and benefits, inclusion, and HR systems and operations. 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. Role Overview The Lead – Talent Acquisition owns two equally weighted mandates for KLA India’s Global Capability Center: the end-to-end University Relations (UR) program and the lateral hiring of niche, senior and critical engineering talent. The role builds an integrated early-career and experienced-hire talent pipeline across AI/ML, High-Performance Computing (HPC), design engineering, software, R&D and corporate functions. Working with a high degree of independence, the Lead sets the India campus and lateral hiring strategy, builds long-term partnerships with top engineering institutions, drives campus employer branding, and leads data-led campus offer and compensation analysis. The Lead acts as a trusted talent advisor to engineering leaders, HR Business Partners and Global TA, and uses analytics and AI-enabled tools to improve speed, quality and cost of hiring. Key Responsibilities University Relations (50%) 1. Campus Hiring Strategy & University Partnerships: Lead annual India campus hiring strategy for interns, graduate engineers and postgraduate hires, aligned to business workforce plans. Prioritise target institutions using data on talent quality, intern-to-PPO conversion, offer acceptance and return on investment for the position like AI/ML, High performance engineering, and Engineering. Build and sustain strategic partnerships with Tier-1 and Tier-2 institutions (IITs, NITs, IIITs, BITS and other leading universities), including industry–academia projects, research collaborations and guest lectures. Run the full campus cycle independently – pre-placement talks, assessments, interviews, offers and engagement through to joining. Lead internships program, hackathons and university workshop to build the early-career pipeline and drive intern-to-full-time conversion. 2. UR Branding & Campus Employer Branding: Define and execute the KLA India UR branding plan with Communications and Marketing to position KLA as an employer of choice for semiconductor, AI/ML, HPC and design engineering talent.