Research Scientist, Electromagnetics, Fourier Optics, Imaging Systems
KLA
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Milpitas • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $130,400 - $221,700 per year
Job Level
Junior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Work with Customers, Marketing and Applications Engineers to understand wafer fabrication processes and defects for optical inspection
- Perform electro-magnetic simulations and measurements to assess optical inspection sensitivity of patterned-wafer defects
- Assess new concepts (algorithms and hardware) to meet inspection challenges
- Communicate results and recommendations to product teams and customers
- Acquire expertise in the physics of defect signal and noise in optical inspection of highly sophisticated circuitry, and large-scale simulation and data analysis
- Support development of broadband plasma optical inspection technology and collaborate with physicists, engineers, and data scientists
Requirements
- Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 1 year of experience
- Physics, Electrical Engineering or Optics background with specialization in electromagnetism
- Consistent record to applying fundamental principles of electromagnetism and optics to optical imaging or measurement problems
- Experience with analysis of large data sets from optical systems to measure physical parameters
- Associated experience with artificial intelligence is a plus
- Proficiency in image and signal processing and statistics using MATLAB, Python or other relevant software
- Set up electromagnetic simulations of nano-scale structures
- Travel of up to 10% including foreign destinations
- Authority in light-matter interactions and optical measurements (preferred)
Benefits
- Participation in performance incentive programs
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits
- 401(K) including company matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Student debt assistance
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Development and career growth opportunities and programs
- Financial planning benefits
- Wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP)
- Paid time off and paid company holidays
- Family care and bonding leave
- Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
electromagnetismopticsimage processingsignal processingdata analysiselectromagnetic simulationsMATLABPythonartificial intelligencestatistics
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingexpertise acquisition
Certifications
Doctorate Degree