Sr. Research Scientist (Electromagnetics, Solid State Physics, Scientific Computing)

Base Pay Range : $139,300.00 - $236,800.00 Annually

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Primary Location : USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA

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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.

KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards, and flat panel displays.

KLA focuses more than average on innovation and invests 15% of sales back into R&D.

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) is looking for the best and the brightest research scientists, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers.

Job Description / Preferred Qualifications

We seek an expert in theoretical and computational electromagnetism to join the technology development team in the Broadband Plasma division at KLA.

This division develops the world’s most sophisticated optical inspection technology deployed by all semiconductor manufacturers to detect critical defects in wafers patterned with logic and memory devices.

An individual in this role will perform modeling and simulation to help understand, from first principles, the sensitivity challenges in optical detection of nanometer scale defects in semiconductor devices.

The individual will contribute to building the future optical inspection technologies and will collaborate with semiconductor device manufacturers to understand their inspection challenges and devise paths to defect detectability.

Minimum Technical Skills :

• Electromagnetic scattering theory with understanding of Green's functions and perturbation theory.
• Finite difference time domain approach for ab-initio modeling of high dielectric contrast materials in deep UV to infra-red regime.
• Knowledge of Python and C / C++ ecosystem for scientific computing.
• Basic knowledge of modeling of coherent and incoherent optical imaging systems, including an understanding of wavefront aberrations.
• Proficient with scripting workflows on Linux-based high performance computing clusters.

Minimum Qualifications

PhD Degree + 3 years, or Master Degree + 6 years, or Bachelor Degree + 8 years.

KLA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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