Sr. Technical Writer

Company Overview

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world's leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow's electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group / Division

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA's metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) Division provides industry leading metrology solutions for worldwide semiconductor IC manufacturers. The FaST Division portfolio of metrology products includes hardware and software solutions for optical film thickness, optical critical dimension (CD), composition, and resistivity measurement systems. These products are essential for the IC manufacturers as they provide critical metrology capabilities for the development and implementation of their advanced IC processes. The FaST division is committed to support our customers to achieve performance entitlement of our solution and we effectively partner with our customers from their early research and development phase to the high volume in-line manufacturing implementation specific for their process needs. The division consists of a global team located in US, Israel, China, and India.

Job Description / Preferred Qualifications

Join the action! As a Technical Writer, you will support our division's new product development process, partnering with the New Product Introduction and Development Engineering teams to produce high quality documentation. Are you ready? Join us and experience an environment that supports collaboration, learning, and forward-thinking!

Key responsibilities and skills :

• Responsible for developing and maintaining technical documentation for manufacturing, service, maintenance, installation, repair, troubleshooting, part replacement, upgrades, software and software configuration.
• Applies technical writing standards, formats, and templates to produce products that conform to the company documentation, quality assurance standards and industry compliance standards (i.e. SEMI-S2, UL, CE).
• Collaborates with NPI, development engineer, manufacturing, field service and other domain experts, to capture and develop content for documentation. Conducts review meetings and discussions independently with engineering and technical staff to edit and revise existing content to ensure accuracy, consistency, usability and thoroughness.
• Exerts good project management skills on the assigned projects, conducts reviews with team members, provides regular updates to the collaborators and functional groups; assesses efforts and time needed for the documentation; maintains action trackers and project documentation.
• Ability to generate real-time documenting in cleanroom environment.
• Ability to review and understand schematics, wiring diagrams, BOMs, 3D models.
• A motivated self-starter who is fast-learning, adaptable, capable of working independently, and can optimally coordinate with a globally distributed team.
• Ability to extract complex technical concepts into clear, concise, and user-friendly documentation for non-technical and technical users.

Minimum Qualifications

KLA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at or at to request accommodation.

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