Electrical Design 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.

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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.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and integrate electrical and electro-mechanical systems for advanced semiconductor equipment, ensuring compliance with performance, reliability, safety, and manufacturability requirements.

• Define electrical architecture, power distribution systems, control systems, and interface requirements for new product development and product enhancements.

• Develop and review electrical schematics, PCBA, power distribution, interconnect designs, system documentation or relevant to support product development and manufacturing.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Manufacturing, NPI, Quality, and Suppliers to ensure successful system integration and product delivery.

• Analyze system requirements, electrical load budgets, power consumption, grounding, shielding, EMC/EMI considerations, and safety requirements to optimize system performance.

• Design, specify, and qualify electrical components including power supplies, PLCs, motion controllers, sensors, relays, breakers, safety devices, industrial PCs, PCBA assemblies, etc.

• Support electrical integration, system bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, characterization, and validation activities for new products and engineering builds.

• Develop test plans and execute system and subsystem verification to validate electrical performance, safety compliance, reliability, and product requirements.

• Ensure designs comply with SEMI S2, SEMI S8, SEMI S22, CE, UL, IEC, NFPA, and applicable international safety and regulatory requirements.

• Work closely with suppliers and manufacturing teams to assess manufacturability, component selection, obsolescence management, production readiness, and High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) scalability.

• Develop and maintain electrical Bills of Materials (BOM), schematics, cable drawings, assembly procedures, test documentation, and diagnostic instructions.

• Support product introduction and sustainment by providing technical training and troubleshooting support to Manufacturing, NPI, Service, and Field Engineering teams.

• Investigate and resolve complex electrical, control system, and field-related issues using structured root-cause analysis methodologies.

• Continuously identify opportunities to improve product performance, reliability, cost, safety, and engineering processes.

Requirements:

• Strong foundation in electrical system design, system integration, and product development for complex electro-mechanical systems.

• Experience designing and reviewing electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, control panels, power distribution systems, cable assemblies, and interconnect solutions.

• Working knowledge of industrial control systems including PLCs, HMIs, safety controllers, motion controllers, sensors, actuators, and communication networks.

• Familiarity with semiconductor equipment safety and regulatory standards, including SEMI S2, SEMI S8, SEMI S22 CE, UL, IEC, NFPA, and related compliance requirements.

• Experience with electrical component selection and qualification, including power supplies, circuit protection devices, relays, contactors, connectors, industrial PCs, and PCBA assemblies.

• Understanding of electrical safety principles including grounding, bonding, shielding, EMC/EMI mitigation, electrical hazard analysis, and machine safety requirements.

• Experience with system integration, prototype bring-up, validation testing, characterization, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis of complex technical issues.

• Familiarity with failure analysis, reliability testing, DFMEA/PFMEA, risk assessment, and product qualification methodologies.

• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, design-for-manufacturing (DFM), design-for-assembly (DFA), and high-volume production environments.

• Proficiency with electrical design and engineering tools such as DraftSight, Zuken, or equivalent.

• Strong project management, problem-solving, and analytical skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results within defined timelines.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and the ability to collaborate effectively across global cross-functional teams.

• Experience in semiconductor equipment, automation systems, robotics, wafer handling systems, industrial machinery, or capital equipment is highly preferred.

• Knowledge of fieldbus and industrial communication protocols such as EtherCAT, Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Modbus, or DeviceNet is an advantage.

• Basic knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) with an interest in applying AI-enabled tools to electrical design, system diagnostics, troubleshooting, data analysis, or engineering process improvement, is an advantage.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field, with relevant industry experience of 5 to 7yrs in semiconductor equipment, automation, industrial systems, or capital equipment development.

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.