Senior System Engineer - AI Program

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 to enable 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.

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.

The EcoNet System Lead is responsible for the end-to-end leadership of the EcoNet platform, including product strategy, system architecture alignment, customer deployment readiness, roadmap execution, and cross-functional coordination between Engineering, Applications, Product Management, Support, and Field Teams.

The role serves as the technical and operational focal point for EcoNet solutions, ensuring successful delivery of AI-driven inspection, review, and classification capabilities while driving infrastructure modernization, product scalability, and customer success.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in multidisciplinary R&D environments.
• Experience with Architecture of AI-SW products, Microservices, Cloud native App 
• Proven experience leading complex system development programs.
• Strong understanding of system engineering, architecture, integration, and qualification methodologies.
• Experience working with Software, Algorithms, Applications, HW and Manufacturing teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to drive execution and influence without direct authority.

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.