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 scientists, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers.
- The Surfscan group includes a team of engineers, technology development, apps engineers, and product marketing focused on technology that enables wafer, IC, and equipment manufacturers to develop, qualify, and monitor their process tools.
- Defects and process non-uniformities detected on Surfscan equipment allow for early identification of yield excursions.
- The flagship Surfscan products include the SPx platforms for wafer surface quality and wafer defect inspection tools and systems for inspection of polished wafers, epi wafers,



and engineered substrates during the wafer fabrication process.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications
He will work on Surfscan IMC (Image Computing) subsystem team and specializes in software design, development, and integration of current and next-generation high-performance computing clusters used by Surfscan tools to acquire and process large amounts of data, enabling the delivery of value to KLA customers.
Regular duties include:
- Attending design meetings
- Developing software components
- Driving integration of different software modules

He will primarily be working on:
- C++ under Linux
- Intel MPI
- CUDA
- Docker and Kubernetes

He will use tools like:
- GDB for debugging
- GitHub and RTC for managing code

Minimum Qualifications:
- Doctorate (Academic) or work experience of 0 years
- Master's Level Degree or work experience of 2 years
- Bachelor's Level Degree or work experience of 3

📌 Associate Lead, Software Development (Chennai)
🏢 KLA-Tencor
📍 Chennai