Electrical Hardware 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.

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 for 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. The RAPID division leads the industry in reticle inspection solutions, helping ensure high lithography yields and cost-effective semiconductor manufacturing. Its systems support both mask shops and fabs by detecting defects early in the process, enabling faster, more reliable production.

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.

Join KLA's Reticle Product Division and play a key role in shaping the next generation of electronics platforms for advanced semiconductor metrology systems.

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer who can quickly assume ownership of ongoing electronics development projects, lead PCB redesign activities, and drive critical deliverables to production release. The successful candidate will bring deep practical experience in mixed-signal hardware development and be effective in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with significant onsite interaction across engineering disciplines.

In this role, you will drive complex electronics development initiatives from concept through production release while collaborating with internal engineering teams, external development partners, and suppliers.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with the ability to coordinate complex development activities, manage technical risks, and successfully execute projects in a highly interdisciplinary and international environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex PCB redesign and electronics development projects from requirements definition through production release.
• Own the technical planning, execution, risk management, and tracking of electronics development activities.
• Define system and subsystem requirements for electronic assemblies and interfaces.
• Develop, review, and approve analog, digital, and mixed-signal electronic designs.
• Coordinate schematic development, PCB layout reviews, prototype builds, qualification activities, and manufacturing readiness.
• Collaborate with external design houses, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to ensure successful project execution.
• Drive root-cause investigations, verification, validation, and design optimization activities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable safety, EMC, and regulatory requirements.
• Create and maintain engineering documentation, manufacturing documentation, specifications, and test procedures.
• Collaborate closely with software, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, and service engineering teams.
• Contribute to future platform architectures, technology roadmaps, and continuous product improvements.
• Communicate technical concepts and project status effectively within international and cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Mixed-signal electronics design.
• High-speed digital interfaces and embedded control systems.
• Sensor signal acquisition and processing.
• Actuator and motion control interfaces.
• FPGA or DSP-based systems.
• MATLAB, Python, or similar tools for simulation and data analysis.
• Good German language skills are highly desirable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in electronics development.
• Proven experience leading technical development projects or major work packages.
• Strong background in PCB architecture, schematic design, and electronics integration.
• Experience managing suppliers, external development partners, or contract engineering organizations.
• Demonstrated success in bringing complex electronic products from concept through manufacturing release.
• Experience developing electronics for industrial equipment, machine control systems, automation systems, semiconductor equipment, medical devices, or comparable high-reliability applications.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate and advocate technical positions using sound engineering judgment while remaining open to constructive challenges and alternative approaches.
• Strong analytical, structured, and solution-oriented approach to problem solving.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Occasional domestic and international travel, including to the United States, may be required as part of this role (up to approximately 20%).
• Valid EU work permit required.

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.