Engineer, Software 3

KLA is seeking a highly skilled Engineer, Software 3 to act as a Software Architect for the Surfscan (SFS) division's products. This pivotal role involves creating and driving the technology roadmap and significantly advancing developer productivity through innovative tools and processes. If you're a technology evangelist with a passion for solving complex problems and mentoring teams, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact.

Responsibilities

- Be the technology evangelist for the Surfscan product division.
- Work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
- Acquire knowledge of key use cases in Bare Wafer Inspection (IC & Wafer customers).
- Create concepts/prototypes for software and help turn them into plans for execution.
- Be a vivid reader of technology and process trends in the industry to define the tools, coding standards, and platforms to be used by the software team.
- Interact with various software teams within and outside the division to understand their barriers and come up with suitable remedial (incremental and disruptive) solutions for productivity improvements and software modernization.
- Interact with various stakeholders, project managers, and developers to envision, model,



and design solutions for problems at hand.
- Monitor code check-ins across the team regularly and review to ensure design quality, code clarity, and adherence to coding standards.
- Mentor and collaborate with the development team, continuously enhancing their knowledge.
- Develop software requirement specification and detailed design specification documents covering every aspect unambiguously—such as functionality, performance, viability, scalability, comprehensibility, security, and technological constraints.

Skills

- Extensive technical and product knowledge.
- Strong coding skills in multiple programming languages.
- Whole-rounded assessment of competing alternatives to solve problems at hand.
- Ability to navigate from problem to requirements to solution, keenly aware of design tradeoffs and implications to the software roadmap.
- Exhibit consistency over all competencies in delivering great software repeatedly.
- Critical thinking, creative thinking, and solid problem-solving abilities.
- Clear communication, articulation, and the ability to enable a team to rally to achieve high-value results.

Qualifications

- Doctorate (Academic) Degree; or Master's Level Degree; or Bachelor's Level Degree.

📌 Engineer, Software 3 (Chennai)
🏢 KLA
📍 Chennai