Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist

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

KLA's Human Resources team drives business success by mobilizing our global talent to achieve both short- and long-term objectives. Our strategic areas of focus encompass HR business partnerships, learning and development, talent acquisition, compensation and benefits, inclusion, and HR systems and operations.

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.

University Relations & Campus Recruiting

• Develop and execute a university engagement plan aligned with hiring demand, technical disciplines, locations, and recruiting timelines.
• Build lasting relationships with career centers, faculty, laboratories, student organizations, and alumni networks.
• Lead campus talks, career fairs, technical sessions, department visits, and company visits that generate applications and qualified resumes.
• Maintain year-round engagement to build candidate pipelines before hiring peaks.

Recruiting Events & Talent Engagement

• Identify and deliver opportunities to engage both early-career and experienced talent, including open houses, interview days, industry networking, referral events, and virtual career sessions.
• Own event planning and execution, including candidate outreach, registration, business participation, vendors, budgets, logistics, and follow-up.
• Establish qualified-resume targets for each activity and convert participant interest into recruiting-ready candidate profiles.
• Evaluate results and expand activities that consistently generate relevant candidates.

Qualified Resume & Pipeline Development

• Increase qualified candidate supply through university partnerships, events, referrals, professional networks, and proactive sourcing.
• Screen profiles against agreed hiring requirements and capture candidate interests, availability, and location preferences.
• Maintain organized, searchable candidate pools and promptly connect qualified candidates with the appropriate recruiter.
• Track source effectiveness and maintain appropriate candidate consent and data privacy.

Full-Cycle Recruiting

• Independently own recruitment for one assigned division, from intake and sourcing through interviews, offer negotiation, acceptance, and onboarding handoff.
• Partner with hiring managers to clarify requirements, prioritize openings, and deliver agreed hiring timelines.
• Drive timely feedback and decisions, resolve hiring barriers, and maintain a positive candidate experience.
• Keep Workday records accurate and balance requisition delivery with university and event commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Communications, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant talent acquisition experience, including hands-on recruiting and ownership of university, campus, or candidate-generation programs.
• Demonstrated success independently building partnerships and executing recruiting events that produce qualified resumes.
• Proven ability to manage full-cycle recruiting independently.
• Strong relationship-building, presentation, project management, sourcing, screening, and negotiation skills.
• Experience recruiting for engineering, semiconductor, equipment, or other technical organizations preferred.
• Data analysis: Independently clean, validate, and analyze recruiting data using Excel
• Actionable insights: Use resume volume, channel costs, and conversion rates to recommend which universities, events, and sourcing activities to prioritize.
• Independent judgment: Question assumptions, investigate causes, compare alternatives, and explain recommendations with evidence.
• Responsible AI use: Use AI as support, not a substitute for personal analysis. Verify its outputs, explain the reasoning in one’s own words, and remain accountable for accuracy and final recommendations.

Success Measures

• Primary: Growth in unique, qualified resumes and sustained candidate supply for priority hiring needs.
• Qualified-resume yield and cost by university, event, and sourcing channel.
• Timely candidate follow-up and recruiter handoff.
• Conversion of generated profiles into interviews and hires.
• Achievement of assigned-division hiring goals, offer acceptance, and candidate experience.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and 0 years related work experience; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 5 years

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.