Senior Software 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 to enable 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.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

KLA is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our semiconductor products development team in Israel. The candidate will participate in the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software solutions used in advanced semiconductor products.

You will work closely with software, systems, hardware, and field engineers to deliver high-quality products throughout the product lifecycle. The role requires strong technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and effective collaboration within a global engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for complex semiconductor systems.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, code reviews, testing, and release activities.
• Collaborate with systems, hardware, and applications engineers to define and implement product requirements.
• Investigate customer and field issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement robust solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, design specifications, and test plans.
• Contribute to software architecture discussions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support product releases and sustaining engineering activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Strong programming skills in C# and/or C++.
• Experience with object-oriented design and software engineering best practices.
• Familiar with AI tools for software development.
• Experience developing multi-threaded and distributed software systems.
• Experience with software design patterns and debugging techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Demonstrate ability to lead software development projects involving multiple software engineers, including technical planning, task coordination, execution tracking and delivery

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.